The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo
by A. D. Nock
Introduction by Clare K. Rothschild
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481311588
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2019
Format: Paperback
Originally published in 1933, Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo remains one of the most influential studies of religion in the Hellenistic...
Gratitude is often understood as etiquette rather than ethics, an emotion rather than politics. It was not always so. From Seneca to Shakespeare, gratitude was a public virtue. The circle of benefaction...
Only a small fraction of ancient literature survives--less than one percent, estimates reveal. While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christianity, often regarded as responsible for the proliferation...
Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity
by Curtis W. Freeman
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481306881
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2017
Format: Hardcover
On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields. Bunhill became the final resting place for some of the most honored names of English Protestantism. Burial outside...
Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies
by Leslie J. Harris
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481300513
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Hardcover
State of the Marital Union documents the transformations of public identity occurring in American society through a close examination of the rhetoric used in nineteenth-century marriage controversies....
A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903
by Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781602585317
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2013
Format: Hardcover
During the 18th century, American Puritans introduced migrant and enslaved Africans to the Exodus story. In contrast to the ways white Americans appropriated the texts to defend the practice of slavery,...
The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages--beyond the borders of England...
William Jackson bestows a rich collection that presents the depth of American generosity. Drawing upon an abundant variety of genres--myths, proverbs, poems, letters, short stories, news stories, folktales,...
