1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777659903321

Titolo

Christian demonology and popular mythology [[electronic resource] ] : demons, spirits and witches / / edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hungary, : Central European University Press, 2006

ISBN

978-615-5211-01-0

9786155211010

978-6-15521-101-0

615-5211-01-9

1-281-26867-4

9786611268671

1-4294-1344-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Demons, spirits, witches ; ; v.2

Altri autori (Persone)

KlaniczayGábor

PócsÉva

Disciplina

133.4094

Soggetti

Demonology

Witchcraft

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Contents of the first and the third volume; Introduction; Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook; "A Wall of Bronze " or Demons versus Saints: Whose victory?; An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary; Talking with Demons.  Early Modern Theories and Practice; Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary; The Devil and Birthgiving; Serpent - damsels and dragon - slayers: Overlapping divinities in a medieval tradition; Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? -The Devil in Early Modern Poland

Sexual Encounters with Spirits and Demons in Early Modern Sweden: Popular and Learned Concepts in Conflict and InteractionChurch demonology and popular beliefs in early modern Sweden; Saintly and Sympathetic Magic in the Lore of the Jews of Carpatho-Russia Between the Two World Wars; Magic as Reflected in Slovenian Folk Tradition and Popular Healing Today; Categories of the "Evil Dead" in Macedonian



Folk Religion; Balkan demons protecting places; Demons of Fate in Macedonian Folk Beliefs; Gog and Magog in the Slovenian folk tradition

Systematization of the Concept of Demonic and Evil in Mongolian Folk ReligionLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The authors—recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four continents—present the latest research findings on the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The present volume focuses on the divergence between Western and Eastern evolution, on the different relationship of learned demonology to popular belief systems in the two parts of Europe. It discusses the conflict of saints, healers, seers, shamans with the representatives of evil; the special function of escorting, protecting, possessing, harming and healing spirits; the role of the dead, the ghosts, of pre-Christian, Jewish and Christian spirit-world, the antagonism of the devil and the saint.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786737203321

Autore

Warshaw Shirley Anne <1950->

Titolo

A guide to the White House staff / / Shirley Anne Warshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : CQ Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-78268-879-X

1-4522-3432-9

1-4522-3433-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, xiii, 488 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

352.2370973

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Staff

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

GUIDE TO THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF-FRONT COVER; GUIDE TO THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF; SUMMARY: TABLE OF CONTENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PART I: BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF; CHAPTER 1: BUILDING THE



PRESIDENT'S STAFF, 1789-1939; CHAPTER 2: THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT: FORMALIZING THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND THE MANAGERIAL PRESIDENCY, 1900-1949; CHAPTER 3: THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, 1939-2012; PART II: THE OPERATIONS OF THE MODERN WHITE HOUSE STAFF, 1939-PRESENT; CHAPTER 4: ORGANIZING THE WHITE HOUSE, 1939-PRESENT

CHAPTER 5: TRANSITION PLANNING: STAFFING THE WHITE HOUSECHAPTER 6: KEY POLICYMAKING UNITS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: DOMESTIC POLICY, ECONOMIC POLICY, AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY; CHAPTER 7: WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN THE SECOND TERM: NIXON, REAGAN, CLINTON, AND BUSH; CHAPTER 8: CAREER PATHS FOR WHITE HOUSE STAFF AFTER LEAVING OFFICE; APPENDIX: THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF, 1939-2012; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In eight thematically-arranged chapters, this insightful work examines the evolution and current role of the White House staff. It provides a study of executive-legislative relations, organisational behaviour, policy making, and White House-cabinet relations.