Daniel Rancour Laferriere: 3 books
The Slave Soul of Russia
Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing...
The Sign of the Cross
From Golgotha to Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century...
Imagining Mary
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Devotion to the Virgin Mother of God
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Imagining Mary breaks new ground in the long tradition of Christian mariology. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation of some of the many Marys, East and West, from the New Testament Mary of Nazareth down to Our Lady of the Good Death in the twentieth century. In Imagining Mary, Professor...