Penn State University Press: 456 books
The Spiritual Franciscans
From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Winner of the 2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize and the 2002 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association. When Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226, he left behind an order already struggling to maintain its identity. As the Church called upon Franciscans to be bishops, professors,...
The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature
False Messiah and National Hero
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1993
Bar Kokhba led the Jewish rebellion against Rome in 132–135 A.D., which resulted in massive destruction and dislocation of the Jewish populace of Judea. In early rabbinic literature, Bar Kokhba was remembered in two ways: as an imposter claiming to be the Messiah and as a glorious military leader...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious authority: Where does it come from? How is it established? What might be changing it? The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine...
The Shame of Survival
Working Through a Nazi Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Germany was like for people who were reared to think of Adolf Hitler as the savior of his country, and...
The Spirit of Praise
Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
In The Spirit of Praise, Monique Ingalls and Amos Yong bring together a multidisciplinary, scholarly exploration of music and worship in global pentecostal-charismatic Christianity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Spirit of Praise contends that gaining a full understanding of this...
One Holy and Happy Society
The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1992
Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was arguably this country's greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the "New Divinity") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America....
The Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio—that arose from the notorious Arras witch hunts and trials in the mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings, by the “Anonymous of Arras” (believed...
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This...
A Spiritual Home
Life in British and American Reformed Congregations, 1830–1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
A Spiritual Home explores congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experience of local congregations, this book reaches back into the nineteenth century, a critically formative period in...
Why Budgets Matter
Budget Policy and American Politics; Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
When the first edition of Why Budgets Matter was published in 2003, the federal budget had fallen back into deficit. At the time, fairly modest changes in taxes and spending would have ensured that deficits and debt would remain at tolerable levels. Instead, the disconnect between taxes and spending...
by Scott R. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of attention. In Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, Scott Stroud presents a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant...
Democratic Professionalism
Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic...
“Civilizing” Rio
Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1996
A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized...
Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets
Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The agenda of neoliberal market reform known as the Washington Consensus, which was meant to turn around the economies of developing and postcommunist countries and provide the bedrock of economic success on which stable democracies could be built, has largely proved to be a failure, with Russia and...