Author: Richard S. Ascough
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: studies, christianity, judaism, smyrna, sardis, rivalries, struggle, success, religious
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2005-04-19
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0889204721
ISBN-13: 9780889204720

This volume, one in a series of books examining religious rivalries, focuses in detail on the religious dimension of life in two particular Roman cities: Sardis and Smyrna. The essays explore the relationships and rivalries among Jews, Christians, and various Greco-Roman religious groups from the second century bce to the fourth century ce. The thirteen contributors, including seasoned scholars and promising newcomers, bring fresh perspectives on religious life in antiquity. They draw upon a wide range of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary data to investigate the complex web of relati

Authors:Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, Sheila Petty,
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: canadian, cultural, studies, culture, poesis, essays
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2006-02-03
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0889204861
ISBN-13: 9780889204867

How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates in Canadian cult

Author: Guy L. Beck
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: world, religions, music, experiencing, sound, sacred
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-07-14
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0889204217
ISBN-13: 9780889204218

Includes CD with 40 selections of music and chants. See Table of Contents for CD track playlist. This innovative book explores religion through music, one of the most universally recognized forms of human experience. The only art form named after a divinity, music has been documented from prehistory to the present age in virtually all known cultures. For many, music is a vehicle for spiritual growth and community empowerment, whether it’s understood as a gift of the gods or simply a practice for achieving mental states conducive to enlightenment. Traditionally, when religious scholars t

Authors:Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy,
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: poetries, english, radical, canadas, time, writing
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0889204306
ISBN-13: 9780889204300

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s.

Author: Kenneth D. McRae
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: conflict, multilingual, societies, compromise, douglas, kenneth, mcrae, finland
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0889202834
ISBN-13: 9780889202832

Conflict and Compromise, Volume 3: Finland examines historical and developmental patterns during the Swedish, Russian and post-independence periods of Finland’s history. McRae outlines Finland’s changing social structures, showing how the language groups have evolved within these structures in the twentieth century. He compares how Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking citizens perceive themselves and other language groups, as well as the similarities and differences in their views on political and social issues. Further, the book describes in detail the constitutional and institut

Author: R. Bruce Elder
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: film, twentieth, century, media, movements, studies, art, dissent, avant, garde, harmony
Number of Pages: 516
Published: 2008-10-02
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1554580285
ISBN-13: 9781554580286

R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cinema. The cinema, Elder argues, became, in the early decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal artistic force around which a remarkable variety and number of aesthetic forms took shape. To demonstrate this, Elder begins with a wide-ranging discussion that opens up some broad topics concerning modern

Author: Angelo A. Borra
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Pre
Keywords: life, hispanic, theatre
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1983-01-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0889201293
ISBN-13: 9780889201293