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Robert A Orsi

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1) Between heaven and earth: the religious worlds people make and the scholars who study them

Author

Orsi, Robert A

Series

Princeton paperbacks

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Publisher description: Explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth. Author Robert Orsi also considers how scholars of religion occupy the ground in between belief and analysis, faith and scholarship.

2) History and presence

Author

Orsi, Robert A

Publisher

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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"One of the greatest sources of violence in modern history has been the question of what Jesus meant when he told his disciples at the Last Supper to eat the bread of his body and drink the wine of his blood and to do so always in remembrance of him. It erupted in Europe in the sixteenth century and was carried around the globe by colonizers, missionaries, explorers, and scholars. In its opening chapters, History and Presence examines the power of...