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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 493 p. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train...
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 318 p. In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church...
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The paper concerns problematics of the language of cinema and philosophical questions related to it: what kind of future cinema opened to the mankind, what price does it pay for video dreams, and how, from a technical toy, cinema has become a creator of the major myths of the mankind?...
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Translated by Nadia Benabid and Rodolphe el-Khoury; with an introduction by Rodolphe el-Khoury. — Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: The MIT Press, 2000. — 160 p. ISBN: 0-262-12225-1 In book uses an idiosyncratic method of historical genealogy derived from, among others, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, and Michel Foucault, to show how the...
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Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Church History. — University of Pretoria, 2009. — 367 p. Work about life and scientific studies of theologian Paul Tillich. Chapter 1: Paul Tillich‘s chronology and autobiography Chapter 2: Historiographical approache Chapter 3: Biographical details Chapter 4: The Frankfurt years Chapter 5: Influences Chapter 6:...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 320 p. What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical and Religious Studies. — University of Pretoria, 2015. — 223 p. This thesis, Jewish scholarship on the resurrection of Jesus, is meant to contribute to the wider body of literature on the Jewish study of Jesus. The resurrection is deemed the most important event in the New Testament (1 Cor 15:17), yet it...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament Studies. — University of Pretoria, 2001. — 354 p. This study attempts to identify the issues that are specifically important for an understanding of biblical interpretation within the Russian Oithodox Church. Its purpose is not to advocate pm or contra Russian biblical scholarship, but to place the...