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To Overcome Oneself The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520-1767

To Overcome Oneself The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520-1767
J. Michelle Molina, "To Overcome Oneself: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520-1767"
English | 2013 | pages: 326 | ISBN: 0520275659 | PDF | 3,4 mb
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through the 1760s, the book treats Jesuit techniques of self-formation, namely spiritual exercises and confessional practices, and the relationships between spiritual directors and their subjects. Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic were folded into a dynamic that shaped new concepts of self and, in the process, fueled the global Catholic missionary movement. Molina historicizes Jesuit meditation and narrative self-reflection as modes of self-formation that would ultimately contribute to a new understanding of religion as something private and personal, thereby overturning long-held concepts of personhood, time, space, and social reality. To Overcome Oneself demonstrates that it was through embodied processes that humans have come to experience themselves as split into mind and body. Notwithstanding the self-congratulatory role assigned to "consciousness" in the Western intellectual tradition, early moderns did not think themselves into thinking selves. Rather, "the self" was forged from embodied efforts to transcend self. Yet despite a discourse that situates self as interior, the actual fuel for continued self-transformation required an object-cum-subject―someone else to transform. Two constant questions throughout the book are: Why does the effort to know and transcend self require so many others? And what can we learn about the inherent intersubjectivity of missionary colonialism?

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Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger

Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger
Thief, Convict, Pirate, Wife: The Many Histories of Charlotte Badger by Jennifer Ashton
English | July 14th, 2022 | ISBN: 1869409574 | 210 pages | True PDF | 4.30 MB
Charlotte Badger is a woman around whom many stories have been woven: the thief sentenced to death in England and then transported to New South Wales; the pirate who joined a mutiny to take a ship to the Bay of Islands; the first white woman resident in Aotearoa; the wife of a rangatira, and many more.

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There and Back Book World's Top 10 Most Amazing Places

There and Back Book World's Top 10 Most Amazing Places
There and Back Book: World's Top 10 Most Amazing Places: Including Marrakesh, Bora Bora, Mù Cang Chải, Tamil Nadu, The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, and Iguazú Falls by University Press
English | December 1, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09MVRHPLV | 55 pages | EPUB | 0.25 Mb
University Press returns with another short and captivating book - a brief glimpse of the World's Top 10 most amazing places.

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Theology and the Experience of Disability Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under

Theology and the Experience of Disability Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under
Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, "Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under"
English | 2019 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 0367880733, 1472458206 | PDF | 2,1 mb
The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities. Presenting both short narratives emerging out of theological reflection on experience and analytical essays arising from engagement in scholarly conversations Theology and the Experience of Disability is a conscious attempt to develop theology by and with people with disabilities instead of theology about people with disabilities.

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The Work of History Writing for Stuart Macintyre

The Work of History Writing for Stuart Macintyre
The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre by Peter Beilharz, Sian Supski
English | July 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 0522878601 | 519 pages | True EPUB | 6.33 MB
Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre's contribution to understanding radicalism and communism, postwar reconstruction, education and civics, universities, liberalism, historiography and the history wars. They also tell us about collegiality and friendship.

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