The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and CultureJohn F. A. Sawyer The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture provides readers with a concise, readable and scholarly introduction to twenty-first century approaches to the Bible.
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Contents
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The Renaissance | 54 |
The Reformation | 69 |
The CounterReformation | 85 |
The Modern World | 104 |
Music | 286 |
Art | 299 |
1a Jonah Swallowed | 301 |
Architecture | 323 |
The Theatre | 338 |
The Circus | 365 |
The Body | 381 |
Reading in Practice | 397 |
The Nomadic Text | 117 |
Islam | 135 |
Asia | 158 |
Africa | 176 |
North America | 198 |
Latin America | 217 |
Australasia | 232 |
The Bible and the Senses | 251 |
Film | 268 |
Politics | 414 |
Ecology | 432 |
Psychology | 447 |
Gender | 464 |
Nationalism | 480 |
Postcolonialism | 497 |
Postmodernism | 515 |
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