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Navigating Religious Difference in Spiritual Care and Counseling : Essays in Honor of Kathleen J. Greider
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ISBN: 1946230391 1946230324 Year: 2019 Publisher: Claremont, California : Claremont Press,

Halloween and other festivals of death and life
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ISBN: 0870498126 0870498134 Year: 1997 Publisher: Knoxville University of Tennessee press


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Care, Healing, and, Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses
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ISBN: 1928314953 1928314945 Year: 2021 Publisher: Heidelberg, Germany : African Sun Media,


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Racial Reconciliation and Privilege : The Debate Within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Regional Conferences
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ISBN: 1946230383 1946230367 Year: 2017 Publisher: Claremont, California : Claremont Press,


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Buchführung für die Ewigkeit : Totengedenken, Verschriftlichung und Traditionsbildung im Spätmittelalter
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ISBN: 3034011962 9783034011969 Year: 2014 Publisher: Zürich Chronos

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Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval SwitzerlandHow were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the Middle Ages? Based on intertextual relations between necrologies, rent-rolls, and chronicles from Swiss regions, this study shows how commemorating the dead required new techniques of writing that were not only meant to promote salvation, but also helped enforce local lordship. By celebrating the anniversaries of battles and other crucial events, the authorities of the Swiss cantons propagated a historical concept of identity which continues to influence Switzerland's self-perception even today. Rainer Hugener emphasizes the role of religious commemoration for the development of "modern" bureaucracy and offers a new perspective on the founding myths of the Swiss Con-federacy. The book is completed by an exhaustive catalogue of more than 1000 pre-modern necrologies from Swiss monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate and parish churches.

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