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Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap The Hand in the Cap

Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap The Hand in the Cap

The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity no matter how weak or uncertain it may be of the ill Other. In this light the work of operators can become an invaluable support to the creation of the self a crucial help to self-narration and a valid contribution to making one's way through the entangled intricacies of language. The text falls into six chapters which elegantly and accurately lead us into the core of the problem tackled. Focusing on the difficulties implied by the recognition of the ill Other and the acceptance of the otherness the author attacks those cultural policies which set autonomy and integration as absolute objectives to be achieved in the work on handicap. Instead the author highlights the need of a path aiming at the structuring of the individuality of the disabled and at the molding of their subjectivity starting from the subject's peculiarities. | Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap The Hand in the Cap

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A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills. In addition to photographs of rocks in the field there are numerous line diagrams and examples of metamorphic features shown in thin section. The thin section photos are all at a scale and in a context that can be related to views seen in the field through a hand lens. | A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

GBP 175.00
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New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists

New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists. While the emergence of new technology continues to propel the evolution of the tourism industry Chinese tourists as a dominating market have won increasing attention across worldwide destinations. On one hand the vast advancement of technology has fundamentally shifted the way Chinese tourists travel. On the other hand the arrival of technologically savvy Chinese tourists has provoked tourism providers and destinations to adopt innovative technology (e. g. mobile payment). Standing on the edge of the third decade of the twenty-first century the tourism industry and scholarly community are facing unprecedented challenges amidst exciting opportunities. Particularly this line of research is perhaps timelier than ever with the pandemic physically distancing people whilst augmenting technology's function in mediating social interactions and connecting lives beyond geographic boundaries. New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists will be a great resource for researchers and students of Tourism and Hospitality including those interested to understand how innovation and technology is embedded in the tourism industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research.

GBP 130.00
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Phosphoric Acid Purification Uses Technology and Economics

Phosphoric Acid Purification Uses Technology and Economics

The rise and rationalization of the industrial phosphates industry have gone hand in hand with the development and maturation of technologies to purify phosphoric acid. In the 1960s and 70s driven by the exponential sales growth of the detergent-builder sodium tripolyphosphate chemical producers raced to develop processes that would provide a sufficiently pure phosphoric acid feedstock for manufacture to undercut thermal phosphoric acid made from phosphorus. As environmental and political pressure led to a collapse in demand for sodium tripolyphosphate in the 1990s the commercial pressures to rationalize at plant and corporate levels rose such that only the fittest survived. Phosphoric Acid: Purification Uses Technology and Economics the first and only book of its kind to be written on this topic covers the development of purification technologies for phosphoric acid especially solvent extraction describing the more successful processes and setting this period in the historical context of the last 350 years. Individual chapters are devoted to the key derivative products which are still undergoing active development as well as to sustainability and how to approach the commissioning of these plants. The text is aimed at students of chemistry chemical engineering business and industrial history and to new entrants to the industry. | Phosphoric Acid Purification Uses Technology and Economics

GBP 89.99
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Social Europe

Social Europe

Since the first edition of Social Europe was published in 1992 profound social changes have occurred throughout Europe as a result of conflicting pressures on the one hand to become more integrated and on the other to protect national interests and identity. This second edition of Social Europe has been fully revised to provide a comprehensive and focused account of basic social issues and structures which provide the context for these changes. Each chapter covers a key topic such as education crime gender health and religion and provides valuable comparisons between the key nation states of Western Europe.

GBP 175.00
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Suicidal Behaviour Bereavement and Death Education in Chinese Adolescents Hong Kong Studies

Suicidal Behaviour Bereavement and Death Education in Chinese Adolescents Hong Kong Studies

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school community family and interpersonal relationships cause this tragedy? Using key new research from leading researchers and social workers with first hand knowledge of these problems in Hong Kong this enthralling study examines those most at risk and signposts the most effective interventions in therapy and strategic prevention programmes. The result is a highly original and readable account which will be compulsive reading for social workers and academics around the world. | Suicidal Behaviour Bereavement and Death Education in Chinese Adolescents Hong Kong Studies

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Not All Claps and Cheers Humor in Business and Society Relationships

Not All Claps and Cheers Humor in Business and Society Relationships

Scholars from various disciplines have studied humor since antiquity. Yet over the centuries these researchers have also struggled to conceptualize a viable well-accepted notion of humor. Beyond pleasure and amusement people use humor for a variety of social functions. On the one hand humor can cause others to like the humorous source more attract regard ease conversations promote expression and the exchange of ideas introduce new topics of discussion or smooth interactions. On the other hand in aggressive forms humor can halt verbal interactions modify the usual rules of conversation communicate critiques or contribute to the creation of subversive environments. Not All Claps and Cheers: Humor in Business and Society Relationships is an original research anthology that considers different angles from which to address the use of humor by individuals groups and business actors in their interactions within around and across organizations—that is at the interfaces of business and society. Accordingly the research anthology is organized in four sections—Humor Business and Society From Society to Business: Humor’s Use and Roles in Activist Movements From Business to Society: Humor’s Use and Roles in Marketing Corporate Communications and Public Relations and Society within Business: Humor’s Use and Roles in the Workplace and in Organizations. This ground-breaking research anthology draws on material from marketing communications human resources and stakeholder theory to throw light on this poorly understood facet of human business behavior. | Not All Claps and Cheers Humor in Business and Society Relationships

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City for Conquest

City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured with even greater acuity in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat the criminal the idealist the bohemian the driven the entrapped and the impoverished all equally striving to make a dent in this town. The city itself is booming its new constructions callously built on destruction supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where six blocks from Wall Street people haven't got a dime six blocks from duplex apartments people live in hovels and between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference. A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and out of print for far too long City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.

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The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Forty Years On

The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Forty Years On

Taking place in 1982 a major event in both post-colonial history and the final phase of the Cold War as well as a cultural touchstone for two different countries the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict is one of the most important events of the last two decades of the twentieth century. This volume builds upon the aims of the international Falklands/Malvinas Conflict’s thirty-seventh anniversary conference held at The University of Manchester on 25th and 26th April 2019 examining both Argentine and British sides of the conflict as well as joining together the voices of the Falklands/Malvinas veterans with those of Falklands/Malvinas commentators teasing out the multifaceted nature of the conflict. This allows readers to connect first-hand veterans’ accounts with academics’ and commentators’ research as well as providing a larger picture and broader scope of how the 1982 conflict played out and is remembered in not only Argentina and Britain but also the United States forty years after the conflict. Including previously unheard first-hand accounts of the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict from key Argentine and British participants and combatants such as Commodore Michael Clapp and Major General Julian Thompson and key members of 2 PARA this volume offers a unique understanding of the conflict from a range of perspectives. Therefore this volume is an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict. | The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Forty Years On

GBP 130.00
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A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

Given the powerful and forthright title of Andrew Dickson White's classic study it is best to make clear his own sense of the whole as given in the original 1896 edition: My conviction is that science though it has evidently conquered dogmatic theology based on biblical texts and ancient modes of thought will go hand in hand with religion and that although theological control will continue to diminish religion as seen in the recognition of a 'power in the universe not ourselves which makes for righteousness' and in the love of God and of our neighbor will steadily grow stronger and stronger not only in the American institutions of learning but in the world at large. White began to assemble his magnum opus a two volume work first published in 1896 as A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. In correspondence he wrote that he intended the work to stake out a position between such religious orthodoxy as John Henry Newman's on one side and such secular scoffing as Robert Ingersoll's on the other. Historian Paul Carter declared that this book did as much as any other published work toward routing orthodoxy in the name of science. Insofar as science and religion came to be widely viewed as enemies with science holding the moral high ground White inadvertently became one of the most effective and influential advocates for unbelief. | A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

GBP 130.00
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Out of Time? Temporality In Disability Performance

Out of Time? Temporality In Disability Performance

Out of Time? has many different meanings amongst them outmoded out of step under time pressure no time left or simply delayed. In the disability context it may also refer to resistant attitudes of living in “crip time” that contradict time as a linear process with a more or less predictable future. According to Alison Kafer “crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds. ” What does this mean in the disability arts? What new concepts of accessibility crip futures and crip resistance can be staged or created by disability performance? And how does the notion of “out of time” connect crip time with pandemic time in disability performance? The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon. The book tackles the topic from two angles: on the one hand from a theoretical point of view that connects performance analysis with crip and performance theory on the other hand from a practice-based perspective of disability artists who develop new concepts and dramaturgies of crip time based on their own lived experiences and observations in the field of the performing and disability arts. The book gathers different types of text genres forms and styles that mirror the diversity of their authors. Besides theoretical and academic chapters on disability performance the book also includes essays poems dramatic texts and choreographic concepts that ref lect upon the alternative knowledge in the disability arts. | Out of Time? Temporality In Disability Performance

GBP 130.00
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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice including legal prosecution truth-seeking and reparations alongside memorialisation. The 15 chapters included in the volume written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justice - or indeed any societal engagement with the past - more transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width the book features two key case analyses - South Africa and Sri Lanka - alongside discussions of multiple cases including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice such as Turkey or Côte d’Ivoire. The different contributions grouped in themed sections progressively explore the issues actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and in doing so open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice. | In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

GBP 130.00
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The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by trying to control the policies of weaker states which lay between their imperial frontiers and on whose alignment depended the balance of power. By 1914 when both felt even more threatened by Germany than by one another Russia seemed to have gained the upper hand in a struggle for hegemony in Asia which had been crucial for the course of world politics. This book examines the intellectual origins of the ‘Great Game’. | The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

GBP 90.00
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Vluchtelingen en immigratie

Vluchtelingen en immigratie

Michael Dummett eminent filosoof en scherpzinnig maatschappijcriticus pleit al vele jaren voor een eerlijke behandeling van immigranten en vluchtelingen in Europa. In dit inzichtelijke boek heeft hij voor de eerste keer al zijn gedachten over deze belangrijke kwestie gebundeld. Na een eerste verkenning van de verwarde en vaak zeer onrechtvaardige opvattingen over immigratie onderwerpt Dummett de principes en rechtvaardigingen van het desbetreffende overheidsbeleid aan een nauwkeurig onderzoek waarbij hij erop wijst dat dit beleid vaak in strijd is met de rechten van vluchtelingen zoals die in het Verdrag van Gen zijn neergelegd. Aan de hand van confronterende en vaak aangrijpende voorbeelden wijst Vluchtelingen en immigratie de weg naar een nieuwe meer menswaardige benadering van een probleem dat wij niet mogen negeren.

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Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

The infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 in which the Japanese Imperial Army raped and slaughtered countless Chinese citizens on the eve of World War II has been described in well-publicized books from various Chinese Japanese and German perspectives. But this collection of first-hand testimony from the archives of the Yale Divinit; School Library may be the most powerful record of all. Here are eyewitness accounts by a remarkable group of nine men and one woman - dedicated compassionate well-educated articulate and devout missionaries who were ther on the scene refusing to leave and doing everything in their power to save the Chinese victims of this appalling atrocity. | Eyewitnesses to Massacre American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing

GBP 130.00
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The Relation of Wealth to Welfare

The Relation of Wealth to Welfare

First Published in 1924 The Relation of Wealth to Welfare examines certain definite and fundamental elements of human welfare and their relation to private income on the one hand and various kinds of collective action on the other. The four elements discussed in the book are health art work and education. The author argues that the power of private income to increase the welfare of its possessor in regard to the various elements under examination is as a matter of fact frequently or even always comparatively small; whereas the power of collective action and public expenditure to do so is often comparatively great. This book is an essential read for students and researchers of political economy political studies and economics in general.

GBP 89.99
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Frederick Eden Pargiter A Revenue History of the Sundarbans from 1765 to 1870

Frederick Eden Pargiter A Revenue History of the Sundarbans from 1765 to 1870

The Sundarban stretches from the brackish waters of the broad Hooghly on the west to the fresh waters of the still broader Meghna to the east; the turbid waters of the Bay of Bengal on its southern limits to the zamindari or pargana lands on its northern extremity and includes in its southern fringes the dense natural mangrove forests it is famous for. The revenue history of Sundarbans is linked up with its riverine and coastal networks to its strategic location at the head of the Bay of Bengal which made it a natural protective barrier for the densely populated city of Calcutta. The massive transformation combined with the changed physical structure of Sundarban influenced society and economy on the one hand and invited settlers to establish their control in that region on the other. The text of Pargiter focuses on the revenue history of a larger part of Sundarbans viz. Jessore Khulna Bakarganj and some parts of 24-Parganas since the inception of the colonial rule in Bengal. It has also been shown how the colonial administrators took various types of measures for collecting revenue by the way of land reclamation. The introductory note by the editor analyses the revenue settlement policies which had been implemented on different occasions to ensure the revenue maximization policies of the British Raj on the one hand and to establish an human settlement in the deltaic region on the other. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Frederick Eden Pargiter A Revenue History of the Sundarbans from 1765 to 1870

GBP 145.00
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Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time spaciousness and the phenomenology of self. Across the book’s four main chapters – which range from David Bowie’s long-standing interest in Buddhism to street photography of 1980s Liverpool to the ambient soundscapes of Derek Jarman’s Blue or to the slow contemplative cinema of Tsai Ming-Liang – Roberts lays the groundwork for the concept of ‘dwellspace’ as a means by which to unpick the shifting spatial temporal and experiential modalities of everyday mediascapes. Understood as a particular disposition towards time Roberts’s foray into dwellspace proceeds from a Pascalian reflection on the self/non-self in which being content in an empty room vies with the demands of having content in an empty room. Taking the idea of posthuman Buddhism as a heuristic lens Roberts sets in motion a number of interrelated lines of enquiry that prompt renewed focus on questions of boredom distraction and reverie and cast into sharper relief the psychosocial and creative affordances of ambience spaciousness and slowness. The book argues that the colonisation of ‘empty time’ by 24/7 digital capitalism has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of the corporate mindfulness industry and with it the co-option commodification and digitisation of dwellspace. Posthuman Buddhism is thus in part an exploration of the dialectics of dwellspace that orbits around a creative self-praxis rooted in the negation and dissolution of the self one of the foundational cornerstones of Buddhist theory and practice. | Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

GBP 130.00
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Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis Beyond the Impasse in the Mediterranean?

Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis Beyond the Impasse in the Mediterranean?

This book examines the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa and how it impacts young people’s civic and political participation today. The edited volume analyses the extent to which young people influence public policies social cultural and economic structures and how on the other hand these young people are influenced by the same structures. It focuses on the politics and agency of youth and how they impact social change and continuity in the Middle East and North Africa. The book will be of great value to students scholars and researchers interested in Youth Movements MENA Comparative Politics and Political Economy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Politics. | Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis Beyond the Impasse in the Mediterranean?

GBP 130.00
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Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

On the one hand particle-based sensing techniques are driven by new technologies for preparing and measuring micro- and nanoparticles and by a fascination of the possibilities for design and functionalization of all specificities in structure shapes and behavior of these tiny objects. On the other hand there evolves a fast-growing need for new sensing and communication paths for medicine biotechnology and analytical science as well as for new and efficient information transfer and storage systems. No longer are particles regarded only as special types of materials. However we have a better understanding of how they are bridging the gap between material and system between structure and function. Although there are numerous books on micro- and nanoparticles and on sensors there is to the best of my knowledge no book focusing on the general concept of particles as mobile microtransducers. This book clarifies that signal-transducing particles should be regarded as functional elements as part of a system not simply as special materials. It introduces concepts of bead-base sensing and mobile spies at the micro- and nanoscale and gives a representative overview of the variety of particle-based sensing. The state of the art in the development of particles as mobile spies for communication and information management allows us to speculate about future particle-based components and systems in a completely sustainable world economy. In addition the book reports on a fast-evolving technical field which is a typical example of the required convergence of technical strategies and mechanisms in living nature and would make a great reference for professionals and students of chemistry biochemistry biology pharmacy medicine agriculture mechatronics informatics materials science and systems engineering. | Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

GBP 100.00
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The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created such architecture remains ambiguous. On the one hand the wider public associates it with the legacy of the unpleasant period of the real socialist economic regime. Yet on the other hand it is also a manifestation of social modernization and the promotion of a significant proportion of the population. This book focuses particularly on concrete heritage a legacy of modernist architecture in Central and Eastern Europe and it was this material that enabled their rebuilding after World War II and modernization during the following decades. The authors search for the value of modernist architecture and using case studies from Poland Bulgaria Northern Macedonia Lithuania and Slovenia verify to what extent this heritage is embedded in the local socio-economic milieu and becomes a basis for creating new values. They argue that the challenge is to change the ways we think about heritage from looking at it from the point of view of a single monument to thinking in terms of a place with its own character and identity that builds its relation to history and its embeddedness in the local space. Furthermore they propose that the preservation of existing concrete structures and adapting them to modern needs is of great importance for sustainability. With increasing awareness of the issue of preserving post-war architectural heritage and the strategies of dissonant heritage management this multidisciplinary study will be of interest to architecture historians conservators heritage economists urban planners and architects. | The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

GBP 120.00
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Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism Accounts of Spiritual Experience 1735-1765

Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism Accounts of Spiritual Experience 1735-1765

This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences. It reflects on physical manifestations such as shouting weeping groaning visions and out-of-body experiences and their role in the process of spiritual development. These experiences offer an intimate perspective on the surprisingly holistic origins of the evangelical revival. The study features autobiographical narratives and other first-hand manuscripts in which “ordinary” lay people recount their first impressions of Methodism their conflicted feelings throughout the conversion process their approach toward death and dying and their mixed attitudes toward the task of writing itself. The book will be relevant to scholars of Methodism evangelicalism and religious history as well as those interested in emotions and religious experience. | Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism Accounts of Spiritual Experience 1735-1765

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