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Petra Roelofs De eenzame rups
een zoektocht naar geluk; in search of happiness
Dit is een autobiografisch verhaal van een eenzame rups die het avontuur aangaat op zoek naar geluk. Ik neem je mee en laat je zien hoe ik, met mijn hooggevoelige natuur, het gevoel van eenzaamheid heb kunnen transformeren naar een gevoel van verbonden zijn met alles wat er tussen hemel en aarde is. De regenboog staat hier voor mij symbool voor. Ik hoop hiermee ook jou te kunnen inspireren om je open te stellen, hulp te vragen en op onderzoek te gaan. Zo ontwikkel je de kunst om op een andere manier...
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Engels | Nederlands | 23 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Magister, Amsterdam | 2020
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Fabio Bolzonar Catholicism and the welfare state in secular France
Even though the policy impact of Catholicism has increasingly been acknowledged, existing scholarship lacks a coherent view on its changing influence over time and in different political contexts. In this book, Fabio Bolzonar investigates the influence of Catholicism on developments in French social protection from World War II to the mid-2010s. He discusses the factors that have favoured or inhibited it and explores the hybridization between Catholic values and secular principles in the social engagement...
Engels | 223 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Eloquent images
evangelisation, conversion and propaganda in the global world of the early modern period
Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical...
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Engels | PDF, 68 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Missionary education
historical approaches and global perspectives
Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors - from both Europe and the Global South - address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They elaborate on...
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Engels | PDF, 23 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Magd Abdel Wahab Logic & islam
Throughout history, a believer did not need logical proof to believe in Almighty God. This is because the spiritual proof was always enough to admit the existence of Almighty God and to submit to Him. Finding Almighty God is not a mathematical equation that needs to be proven. Rather, it is a spiritual feeling due to a call from inside a human being. The relationship between Almighty God and humans is spiritual rather logical.However, with the advances in science and technology, this spiritual relationship...
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Engels | 162 pagina's (ePub3, 6,7 MB) | Aspect Publishers, Soesterberg | 2020
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Neo-Thomism in action
law and society reshaped by Neo-Scholastic philosophy 1880-1960
In his encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879), Pope Leo XIII expressed the conviction that the renewed study of the philosophical legacy of Saint Thomas Aquinas would help Catholics to engage in a dialogue with secular modernity while maintaining respect for Church doctrine and tradition. As a result, the neo-scholastic framework dominated Catholic intellectual production for nearly a century thereafter. This volume assesses the societal impact of the Thomist revival movement, with particular attention...
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Engels | 331 pagina's (PDF, 16 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Cold war Mary
ideologies, politics, Marian devotional culture
One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as "godless communism". The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics into a spiritual...
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Engels | PDF, 27 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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The survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850
In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jesuits were put under strict surveillance, but in the Dutch Republic they were able to continue their missionary work. It is this regional contrast and the opportunities it offered for the Order to survive that make the Low Countries an exceptional and interesting case in Jesuit history. Just as in White...
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Engels | PDF, 8,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Epicureanism and scientific debates
antiquity and late reception
Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically...
Engels | 350 pagina's (PDF, 7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Islam & Europe
challenges and opportunities
Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated an annual debate/lecture series, beginning with a focus on Islam in today's world and in Europe in particular. Seven well-known influential authorities - each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future - recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A.&...
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Engels | 192 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Islam & Europe
crises are challenges
Within the framework of the Forum A. & A Leysen, several experts from in and outside the Muslim world contributed to this book. In Islam and Europe: Crises Are Challenges they discuss how dialogues between Islam and the West, with a focus on Europe, can be achieved. The various authors (legal scholars, political theorists, social scientists, and psychologists) explore in these collected essays such interrelated questions as: How much diversity is permissible within a liberal pluralistic democratic...
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Engels | 248 pagina's (PDF, 2,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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This obscure thing called transparency
politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor
Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...
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Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Hans Krabbendam Saving the overlooked continent
American Protestant missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975
Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe's religious future. They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe's Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe became the recipient of America's missionary enterprise. The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political programs of the U.S., all of which positioned...
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Engels | PDF, 7,2 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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Kadoc The intimate
polity and the catholic church; laws about life, death and the family in so-called catholic countries
The waning influence of the Catholic church in the ethical and political debate. For centuries the Catholic Church was able to impose her ethical rules in matters related to the intimate, that is, questions concerning life (from its beginning until its end) and the family, in the so-called Catholic countries in Western Europe. When the polity started to introduce legislation that was in opposition to the Catholic ethic, the ecclesiastical authorities and part of the population reacted. The media...
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Engels | 224 pagina's (PDF, 2,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Thomas Coomans Life Inside the cloister
understanding monastic architecture: tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society. Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities...
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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Stichting Nederlandse Orgelmonografieën The profusion of Heaven
the organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
The two seventeenth-century organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam are world-famous. They form an undisputed climax to organ building in the Netherlands in the Golden Age. This book is the first standard work on this earthly reflection of heavenly harmony. The organs are among the oldest in the Netherlands. The main organ was built in 1655 by the famous organ builder Hans Wolff Schonat. The monumental case was designed by Jacob van Campen, the celebrated architect of the Royal Palace on the Dam....
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Engels | 313 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016
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Gender and christianity in modern Europe
beyond the feminization thesis
Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal...
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Engels | 240 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Ton Toutnu The beginning, the end and everything in between
under the auspices of Dr. anTONius F.W. Morselt
The beginning, the end, and everything in between stars the man. It's about the life of a Dutch man, born in 1939 and up to the end that is yet to come. Preparations have started for that end, however. Judging by the large membership numbers of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vrijwillige Euthanasie-the Dutch euthanasia association-he is not the only one. Most of this book, however, is about what happens between birth and death. You have to talk to a Dutchman in half-English; that's what they like...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 73 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Dries van den Akker | Paul Begheyn Johannes Vermeer en de jezuïeten in Delft
Johannes Vermeer en zijn relatie tot de Delftse jezuïeten.
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Engels | Nederlands | 147 pagina's | Adveniat, Baarn | 2023
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Duvilène Pieter | Eunice Anita Can I achieve more in life?
assisting men and women rediscover their purpose in life
A general feeling we all have is that of achieving more in life. Sometimes it is driven by what we see around us and at times it is just a hunger to prove that one can do far more than others see or perceive. Could there be another, a more profound reason for wanting to achieve more in life? Discovering or rediscovering one's purpose in life is the answer that brings fulfillment to the drive of wanting to achieve more in life in the spirit, body and soul of man. This booklet will inspire you and...
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Engels | 56 pagina's (ePub2, 4,6 MB) | Highly Favored Publishing, Veenendaal | 2019
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