1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456915703321

Autore

Pelkmans Mathijs <1973->

Titolo

Defending the border [[electronic resource] ] : identity, religion, and modernity in the Republic of Georgia / / Mathijs Pelkmans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca [N.Y.], : Cornell University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8014-6176-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Culture & society after socialism

Disciplina

947.58

Soggetti

Post-communism - Georgia (Republic) - Ajaria

Electronic books.

Ajaria (Georgia) Ethnic relations

Ajaria (Georgia) Religion

Ajaria (Georgia) Boundaries Turkey History

Turkey Boundaries Georgia (Republic) Ajaria History

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

pt. 1. A divided viillage on the Georgian-Turkis border -- pt. 2. Frontiers of Islam and Christianity in Upper Ajaria -- pt. 3. Postsocialist borderlands.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Through an exploration of three towns in the southwest corner of Georgia, all of which are situated close to the Turkish frontier, Mathijs Pelkmans shows how social and cultural boundaries took on greater importance in the years of transition, when such divisions were expected to vanish. By tracing the fears, longings, and disillusionment that border dwellers projected on the Iron Curtain, Pelkmans demonstrates how elements of culture formed along and in response to territorial divisions, and how these elements became crucial in attempts to rethink the border after its physical rigidities dissolved in the 1990s.The new boundary-drawing activities had the effect of grounding and reinforcing Soviet



constructions of identity, even though they were part of the process of overcoming and dismissing the past. Ultimately, Pelkmans finds that the opening of the border paradoxically inspired a newfound appreciation for the previously despised Iron Curtain as something that had provided protection and was still worth defending.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390111303316

Autore

Garland Edward

Titolo

An answer to a printed book, falsely intituled, A blow at the serpent [[electronic resource] ] : It being truly a blow of the serpent, lately published by one Richard Coppin. Wherein, among many others, these following heresies, and abominable errours of his, are briefly, and plainly confuted out of the word of God. 1 That the deitie of Christ was united to the sinful nature of man, and consequently that his conception was impure. 2 That there is no resurrection of the body. 3 That the pains of Hell are not eternal. 4 That there is no general day of judgement, but such a temporal judgement only as befals men in this world. 5 That God will not destroy any man, but only sin in man. 6 That all shall be saved, the divel not excepted. 7 That the humane nature of Christ is not ascended into Heaven. By Edward Garland M.A. and minister of Gods word at Hartclip [sic] in Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Philemon Stephens in St. Pauls Church Yeard [sic], 1657

Descrizione fisica

[8], 84 p

Soggetti

Blasphemy

Universalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In answer to Richard Coppin's "A blow at the serpent; or a gentle answer from Madiston prison to appease wrath".

Reproduction of the original at the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018