'Jan de Maeyer' in E-books en luisterboeken

In een koude, grijze stad woont een bakker die heel graag en heel goed taarten bakt. Maar de taarten zijn té mooi, niemand wil ze kopen. Met de laatste restjes deeg bakt de bakker drie zoete broodjes.En plots wordt zijn bakkerij drukbezocht, iedereen w...

By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmak...

Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries and Marian shrines of the Catholic Church to the Islamic brotherhoods, from the healers of Kimban-guism to the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist c...

A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of commu...

The wealth and patrimony of religious institutes. During the French Revolution almost all monasteries and abbeys were suppressed and their possessions seized. Yet after the French Revolution many religious institutes were very successful in re-establish...

Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where t...

The attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000. Emiel Lamberts (1941), professor emeritus of contemporary history at KU Leuven, is an international expert in the political and religious histo...