The Miracle Of Amsterdam

Author : Charles Caspers
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268105677
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Amsterdam written by Charles Caspers and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a “cultural biography” of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later. A chapel was erected over the spot, and the citizens of Amsterdam became devoted to their “Holy Stead." From the original Eucharistic processions evolved the custom of individual devotees walking around the chapel while praying in silence, and the growing international pilgrimage site contributed to the rise and prosperity of Amsterdam. With the arrival of the Reformation, the Amsterdam Miracle became a point of contention between Catholics and Protestants, and the changing fortunes of this devotion provide us a front-row seat to the challenges facing religion in the world today. Caspers and Margry trace these transformations and their significance through the centuries, from the Catholic medieval period through the Reformation to the present day.

Author : Gezelschap van de Stille Omgang (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam Miracle City written by Gezelschap van de Stille Omgang (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gezelschap van de Stille Omgang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam Miracle city written by Gezelschap van de Stille Omgang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781931101219
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eucharistic Miracles of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial and written description of 132 Eucharistic Miracles as they occurred throughout the world

Author : Jelle Visser
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dutch Miracle written by Jelle Visser and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years later; and the active employment policy of the 1990s.

Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743756
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam written by Russell Shorto and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography-the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay and the democratic philosophy that this enduring struggle fostered. Amsterdam is the font of liberalism, in both its senses. Tolerance for free thinking and free love make it a place where, in the words of one of its mayors, "craziness is a value." But the city also fostered the deeper meaning of liberalism, one that profoundly influenced America: political and economic freedom. Amsterdam was home not only to religious dissidents and radical thinkers but to the world's first great global corporation. In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a sixteenth-century wine-tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch-and world-history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam.

Author : Betty Neels
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596782407
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SISTER PETERS IN AMSTERDAM written by Betty Neels and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelaide, who works for a pediatric hospital in London, decides to do a yearlong exchange at an Amsterdam hospital. As she struggles to get used to the culture and language, Adelaide meets Professor Coenraad van Essen. She can’t help but fall in love with this handsome, charming man. But she knows that she doesn’t stand a chance with someone so out of her league.

Author : Lipika Pelham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787381846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem on the Amstel written by Lipika Pelham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations:" French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos--and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now fleeing the Inquisition and rediscovering their ancestral faith. This is the extraordinary tale of Amsterdam's prosperous Sephardi community during the Dutch Golden Age. Trading, writing, publishing, staging plays and being painted by Rembrandt, this Nação (Nation) of formerly wandering Jews not only settled but thrived, enjoying high status and unparalleled freedom. At a time when Dutch Catholics were repressed and Jews elsewhere were confined to the ghetto, this community dared to nurture the 'Hope of Israel', sowing the seeds of Zionism. Lipika Pelham charts the captivating history of Amsterdam's Jews, from their integral role in the Dutch economic miracle and the Enlightenment to a somber coda in 1942, when the Nazis herded them into the "Jewish Theater" for deportation to the camps. But this was not the death of the resilient Nação--Pelham also seeks out its descendants in present-day Amsterdam, offering poignant reflection on the meaning of nationhood, the Holocaust and what remains of Jerusalem on the Amstel.

Author : Jan Nijman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510799
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amsterdam’s Canal District written by Jan Nijman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification. This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District’s historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.

Author : Jacqueline Maria Hagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674066146
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration Miracle written by Jacqueline Maria Hagan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the arrival of the Puritans, various religious groups, including Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and Protestant sects, have migrated to the United States. The role of religion in motivating their migration and shaping their settlement experiences has been well documented. What has not been recorded is the contemporary story of how migrants from Mexico and Central America rely on religionÑtheir clergy, faith, cultural expressions, and everyday religious practicesÑto endure the undocumented journey. At a time when anti-immigrant feeling is rising among the American public and when immigration is often cast in economic or deviant terms, Migration Miracle humanizes the controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrantsÕ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Jacqueline Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertakingÑthe role of religion and faith in surviving the journey. Each year hundreds of thousands of migrants risk their lives to cross the border into the United States, yet until now, few scholars have sought migrantsÕ own accounts of their experiences.