Crossing Swords

Crossing Swords
Author: Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1997-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195355350

Based on a decade of field research, this work is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society since the 1970s through 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. It is also the first analysis of church-state relations in Latin America that incorporates detailed interviews of numerous bishops and clergy and leading politicians about how they see each other and how religion influences their values. It is also the first analysis of the Mexican Catholic Church which uses national survey research to examine Mexican attitudes toward religion, Christianity, and Catholicism, and provides the first inside look at the decision-making process of bishops at the diocesan level.

Girls with Swords

Girls with Swords
Author: Lisa Bevere
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307457826

A passionate call for Christian women to effectively "wield the sword" of their God-given feminine strength against any evil that threatens them and those they love. What if you discovered you have been entrusted with an invisible, invincible, and incorruptible weapon? Would you use it? In a day of worldwide trafficking, gendercide, discrimination, and other hostility against women, Lisa Bevere points to a biblical foundation to present a model of feminine strength that will empower women to live confidently. Drawing on the many references to swords throughout Scripture, the author constructs a revealing and compelling female paradigm that will impact every area of a woman's self identity, spiritual awareness, relationships, and life vision and mission. Long known for her passionate and articulate expression of biblical womanhood, Bevere presents fresh imagery--as enticing and strong as polished steel--to prepare women boldly for the challenges they face in today's world. It's not enough to just be wise and strong: Now a woman must know how to wield her sword. Creatively forging the imagery of swords, the Word of God, and the Cross, Girls with Swords will teach you: • How to speak the language of heaven on earth • What it means to intercede • What it means to carry your cross • What it means to be discerning • How to disarm the enemy • Why women are the enemy’s target—and why God needs them to be heroes It’s time to take up your sword and be a hero.

Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords
Author: Shuja Nawaz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Based on 30 years of research and analysis, this definitive book is a profound, multi-layered, and historical analysis of the nature and role of the Pakistan army in the country's polity as well as its turbulent relationship with the United States. Shuja Nawaz examines the army and Pakistan in both peace and war. Using many hitherto unpublished materials from the archives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army, as well as interviews with key military and political figures in Pakistan and the United States, he sheds light not only on the Pakistan Army and its US connections but also on Pakistan as a key Muslim country in one of the world's toughest neighborhoods. In doing so, he lays bare key facts about Pakistan's numerous wars with India and its many rounds of political musical chairs, as well as the Kargil conflict of 1999. He then draws lessons from this history that may help Pakistan end its wars within and create a stabler political entity. Visit http://www.shujanawaz.com for more information about Shuja Nawaz.

Crossing Swords

Crossing Swords
Author: Cindy Peyser Safronoff
Publisher: This One Thing, LLC
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780986446108

The untold story of America's 19th-century culture war! This literary nonfiction drama explores the conflict between defenders of marriage and activists of the counter-culture "free-love" movement by comparing the lifestyles, careers, and public statements of two trailblazing women public figures who represented opposing women's rights viewpoints

Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords
Author: Mrs. Clement Alloway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1912
Genre: Québec (Québec)
ISBN:

Crossed Swords

Crossed Swords
Author: Mary Wilson Alloway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1912
Genre: Qub̌ec (Qub̌ec)
ISBN:

The Sword and the Cross

The Sword and the Cross
Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802197523

“[A] searing story of France’s attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort.” —Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today’s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads. Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri Laperrine, rose to the cause of their country’s national honor. Abandoning his decadent lifestyle as a sensualist and womanizer, Foucauld founded a monastic order so severe that during his lifetime it never had a membership of more than one. Yet he remained a committed imperialist and from his remote hermitage continued to assist the military. The stern career soldier Laperrine, meanwhile, founded a camel corps whose exploits became legendary. During World War I the Sahara’s fragile peace crumbled. In the desert mountains Foucauld paid a tragic price for his role as imperial pawn. Laperrine, by then recalled to the Western Front, returned to avenge his friend. “Fleming captures the hopelessness of the French efforts to conquer the Saharan expanse . . . Provides a vital lesson about the limits of power.” —Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times

Cross and Sword

Cross and Sword
Author: H. McKennie Goodpasture
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2000-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1579104460

From conquistadores and explorers to Protestants, peasants and priests, eyewitnesses give narrative to the triumphs and tragedies of Latin America's religious development.

Swords Around the Cross

Swords Around the Cross
Author: Timothy T. O'Donnell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780931888786

Swords Around the Cross presents one of the few full-length treatments of the heroic struggle of the Irish clansmen in their effort to defend their faith and country against English encroachment and conquest in the sixteenth century. This book has infuriated establishment academics for its honest and thorough treatment of the Irish past. In so doing, the image of a "golden age" under Elizabeth I is dealt a serious blow.