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Language and History in the Early Germanic World
; ...Middle Ages. The book is divided into three parts: "The Germanic World" (9-140), "Contact with the Non-Germanic World" (141-270), and "Contact with Christianity" (271-391). In the first section, devoted to the Germanic world, Green takes up the aspects of Germanic society that shaped its culture, ...
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Early Germanic Literature and Culture
; ...programmatic statement is that "the volume is entitled 'early Germanic culture'" in that it "tries to consider some of the...individual contributions. Heinrich Beck in "The Concept of Germanic Antiquity" profiles work by previous scholars in discussing the concept of "Germanic" and "Antiquity"; Herwig ...
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age.
; Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. By Thomas...Lapp) cultures, that the Germanic-speaking Scandinavians did...examines all the pre-Christian religions of the Nordic region and...examination of mythology and religion. DuBois sees the pagan religions of Nordic Europe as decentralized...
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The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
; ...Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from...19th century to the birth of Germanic and Classical philology, to...later by the idealization of Germanic mythology in A. W Schlegel...treating as myth. Both Greek and Germanic mythologies were seen to offer...
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Christian, Muslim, Jew: Franz Rosenzweig and the Abrahamic religions.
; ...Rosenzweig's analysis of Islam, a religion he regarded as a throwback...church and Islam, between the Germanic peoples and the Arabs, he...Islam is a parody of revealed religion, while Allah is an apotheosized...Rather than three Abrahamic religions, Rosenzweig saw only two religions ...
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Followers of Ancient European Religion Welcome Supreme Court Ruling
; ...struggled for the right to practice our religion," said Stephen McNallen, director...a native pre-Christian European religion originally practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, the Norse, and the Germanic tribes- has been a legally recognized religion in the United States since 1972. The...Justices made it ...
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One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz.(Book Review)
; One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz. By...mid-sixteenth century Metz had gravitated westward out of its Germanic imperial orbit, although its precise role as a French protectorate...interests, displacing the traditionally exclusionary demands of ...
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Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England.
; Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England. By Kenneth Charlton...religious education in early modern England, the ways in which religion shaped the total education of girls and women (and to some...in fact, the index is one of those annoyingly unhelpful Germanic-style ones, with more than 90 ...
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Religion by the sword: in the century following the death of Muhammad, the religion of Islam formed the basis for the rapid conquest of the Christian lands of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
; ...for the bloody onset of battle. Their leader, a fearsome Germanic warrior named Karl, the illegitimate son of the former commanding...had not invested the time or the effort to determine if the Germanic warriors of the north would stream south to resist his invasion...death of Muhammad, not on the spiritual ...
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The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.
; The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips...long-standing developments in demographics, and not just politics and religion, determined the triumph of an Anglophone, Protestant imperium...English language in the twentieth century's engagement with a Germanic ...
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