Spirits and Letters Peter Merrington

Spirits and Letters Peter MerringtonStudies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise the Spirit and the Letter as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing scholarly notions of the relationship between charisma and institution by analysing reading and writing practices in contemporary Christianity. Taking up the

women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence

and John Cleland's pornographic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years

foundationalist philosophies and poststructuralist ones

it creates literary and theoretical contexts for these authors by focusing on the links between the landscape and the female imagination

perhaps more than all

His humane perspective and commitment to intellectual rigor are reflected in the wide range of his works and his active role as a spiritual guide and intellectual leader

which seriously imperilled Marwānid control of Iraq and was countered with considerable difficulty

could go about with me

on the Niagara Frontier especially

In his innovative environmental history

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