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 Free Download Craig A. Monson, "Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy" English | 2011 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 0226534723, 0226534618 | PDF | 2,2 mb Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. But tales of their transgressions have long been buried in the Vatican Secret Archive. That is, until now.
 Free Download Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints By Thomas J. Craughwell 2006 | 191 Pages | ISBN: 0385517203 | EPUB | 1 MB Saints are not born, they are made. And many, asSaints Behaving Badlyreveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.In nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings about the lives of the saints, authors tended to go out of their way to sanitize their stories, often glossing over the more embarrassing cases with phrases such as, "he/she was once a great sinner." In the early centuries of the Church and throughout the Middle Ages, however, writers took a more candid and spirited approach to portraying the saints. Exploring sources from a wide range of periods and places, Thomas Craughwell discovered a veritable rogues gallery of sinners-turned-saint. There's St. Olga, who unleashed a bloodbath on her husband's assassins; St. Mary of Egypt, who trolled the streets looking for new sexual conquests; and Thomas Becket, who despite his vast riches refused to give his cloak to a man freezing to death in the street.Written with wit and respect (each profile ends with what inspired the saint to give up his or her wicked ways) and illustrated with amusing caricatures,Saints Behaving Badlywill entertain, inform, and even inspire Catholic readers across America.  Monica D. Fitzgerald, "Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America" English | ISBN: 1108478786 | 2020 | 186 pages | PDF | 7 MB Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently - punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.  Mark L. Strauss, "Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee" English | ISBN: 0830824669 | 2015 | 223 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they? We overlook that Jesus was  Jerrad Lopes, "Stop Behaving: A Gospel-Centered Devotional for Change That Lasts" English | ISBN: 0736983147 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Follow Jesus, Not Rules
 Thomas L. Craughwell, "Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, &Devil Worshippers Who Became Saints" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0385365276 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb  Julie Causton, "From Behaving to Belonging: The Inclusive Art of Supporting Students Who Challenge Us" English | ISBN: 1416629297 | 2020 | 135 pages | EPUB | 1395 KB  Marie Phillips, "Gods Behaving Badly" English | 2008 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0099513021 | EPUB | 0,5 mb Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out...Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. "Gods Behaving Badly" is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart. |
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