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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451737903321

Autore

Ray Raka

Titolo

Fields of protest [[electronic resource] ] : women's movements in India / / Raka Ray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8905-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

305.42/0954

305.420954

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - India

Women - Suffrage - India - History

Feminism - India - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Political Parties and Women's Organizations in India; 1. Women's Movements and Political Fields; 2. From Lived Experiences to Political Action; 3. Calcutta: A Hegemonic Political Field; 4. Negotiating a Homogeneous Political Culture; 5. Domination and Subordination in Calcutta; 6. Bombay: A Fragmented Political Field; 7. Coexistence in a Heterogeneous Political Culture; 8. Domination and Subordination in Bombay; 9. Identity, Autonomy, the State, and Women's Movements; Methodological Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home, and social lives. Using an innovative and comparative perspective, Ray offers a unique look at Indian activist women and adds a new dimension to the study of women's movements on a global level.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459429903321

Titolo

Jewish and Christian scripture as artifact and canon [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : T & T Clark, c2009

ISBN

1-282-86827-6

9786612868276

0-567-35188-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Library of Second Temple studies ; ; 70

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Studies in scripture in early Judaism and Christianity ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansCraig A

ZachariasH. Daniel

Disciplina

270.1

Soggetti

Christian literature, Early - History and criticism

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Kanon

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing Jewish and Christian scripture as artifact and canon / Craig A. Evans, H. Daniel Zacharias -- Oracle collection and canon : a comparison between Judah and Greece in Persian times / Armin Lange -- Artifactual and hermeneutical use of Scripture in Jewish tradition / Marianne Schleicher -- Early Christian manuscripts as artifacts / Larry W. Hurtado -- Physical features of excerpted Torah texts / Stephen Reed -- Papyrus 967 and the text of Ezekiel : parablepsis or an original text? / John Flanagan -- A fragmentary psalter from  Karanis and its context / Gregg Schwendner -- 'He that dwelleth in the help of the highest' : Septuagint Psalm 90 and the iconographic program on Byzantine armbands / Thomas J. Kraus -- Public and private : second- and third-century gospel manuscripts / Scott D. Charlesworth -- A Johannine reading of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840 / Pamela Shellberg -- How long and old is the codex of which P.Oxy. 1353 is a leaf? / Don Barker -- Letter carriers in the ancient Jewish epistolary material / Peter



M. Head -- 'I was intending to visit you, but ...' : clauses explaining delayed visits and their importance in papyrus letters and in Paul / Peter Arzt-Grabner -- Advice to the bride : moral exhortation for young wives in two ancient letter collections / Annette Bourland Huizenga -- Scribal tendencies in the Apocalypse : starting the conversation / Juan Hernández Jr. -- 'A thousand books will be saved' : Manichaean writings and religious propaganda in the Roman empire / Eduard Iricinschi -- The Danish hymnbook : artifact and text / Kirsten Nielsen -- Toward a sociology of Bible promise box use / David J. Chalcraft -- The Bible as icon : myths of the divine origins of Scripture / Dorina Miller Parmenter.

Sommario/riassunto

Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon constitutes a collection of studies that reflect and contribute to the growing scholarly interest in manuscripts as artifacts and witnesses to early stages in Jewish and Christian understanding of sacred scripture. Scholars and textual critics have in recent years rightly recognized the contribution that ancient manuscripts make to our understanding of the development of canon in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The studies included in this volume shed significant light on the most important questions touching the emergence of canon co



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00452012

Autore

PRIESTLEY, Joseph

Titolo

The rudiments of english grammar / Joseph Priestley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

92 p. ; 19 cm

Edizione

[New York : Garland Publishing]

Descrizione fisica

Ripr. facs. dell'ed.: London, 1761.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia