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  Churchill, Sir Winston

  Cicero 4.1, 10.1

  cinema-going

  Cistercians 4.1, 4.2

  cities see urban life

  Clairvaux Abbey 4.1, 4.2

  classics, education in 4.1, 4.2

  commodification

  community, sense of: erosion of 2.1, 2.2; hatred of 2.3; and meals 2.4; and religion 1.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10

  community centres

  commuting 2.1, 2.2

  compassion 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Comte, Auguste 10.1, 10.2

  Constantine

  contemplation

  Coquerel, François 8.1

  Cornelius, St

  corporations 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  crime 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; fear of 2.1

  crucifixion 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  Cuthbert, St

  Dante Alighieri

  Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1

  death 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

  Demeter

  Descartes, René

  diCorcia, Philip-Lorca

  Donatello

  Donatus, St

  Donne, John

  Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Last Supper2.1

  education: and ethics 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 10.1; in humanities 4.6, 4.7, 4.8; oratory and 4.9, 4.10;purpose of 4.11, 4.12, 4.13;religious 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17;in science 4.18, 9.1; vocational102, 4.19

  Einstein, Albert

  Eliot, George: Middlemarch 4.1

  Eliot, T.S.: The Waste Land 4.1

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Enlightenment 3.1, 4.1

  Epicureanism 1.1, 4.1

  Eucharist 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  fame 2.1, 10.1

  family; see also marriage; parenting

  Faraday, Michael

  Feast of Fools (festum fatuorum) 2.1, 2.2

  Five Books of Moses see Torah

  Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary 4.1

  forgiveness 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  Foy, St

  Fragonard, Jean-Honoré: The Rest during

  the Flight to Egypt 8.1, 8.2

  Francis of Assisi, St 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  freedom 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  French Revolution

  Freud, Sigmund 3.1, 4.1

  funerals 2.1, 2.2

  Gannaway, Preston 8.1

  genius loci 9.1, 9.2

  Gill, Eric: Jesus Falls a Third Time8.1

  Giotto 1.1; The Vices and the Virtues 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  God: invention of 1.1, 3.1, 7.1; non-existence of 1.2, 1.3, 3.2, 7.2

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gordon, George

  Gospels 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1

  Gougan Barra church, Ireland 9.1

  Greeks, ancient 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  Grünewald, Matthias: Isenheim Altarpiece 8.1, 8.2

  Guan Yin 5.1, 5.2

  Guibert of Nogent

  Gutenberg, Johannes

  Haggadah 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 117

  heaven see paradise

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 8.1, 8.2

  hell 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2

  Hepworth, Dame Barbara 8.1, 8.2

  Holy Communion see Eucharist

  hotels

  industrialization

  Isenheim, Monastery of St Anthony

  Isis

  James, Henry

  Jerusalem: Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2

  Jews: Bar Mitzvah 2.1, 2.2; funerals 2.3, 2.4; marriages 6.1; meals 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; prayer 6.2; ritual readings 4.1; see also Judaism

  Job, Book of 7.1, 7.2

  Joseph, St

  Judaism: birkat ilanot 10.1; Birkat Ilanot 10.2; Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1; Haggadah 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; mikveh 4.1, 4.2; Mishnah 3.1, 3.2; Passover 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; Prayer Book of the United Congregation 6.1; Talmud 3.3, 3.4, 10.3; Ten Commandments 3.5; Torah 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; see also Jews

  Jude, St 3.1, 3.2

  Juno

  Katib, Abid: Shifa hospital, Gaza8.1

  Keats, John 4.1, 10.1

  Lacaille, Nicolas

  Laodicea, Council of (AD 364)

  Last Supper 2.1, 2.2

  Lateran, Fourth Council of the (1213–15)

  law 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 10.1

  Leeds

  Levitt, Helen: New York8.1, 8.2

  libertarianism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

  liberty see freedom

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lippi, Filippino: The Adoration of the

  Child 8.1, 8.2

  literature 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 8.1

  loneliness 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  Long, Richard: Red Slate Circle8.1

  Louis XI

  Louvre museum 8.1, 8.2

  love 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1

  Luke, St

  McDonald’s Corporation

  Manchester

  mandalas, Buddhist 8.1, 8.2

  Mantegna, Andrea: Crucifixion 8.1, 8.2

  Marcel, St

  Marcus Aurelius 4.1, 4.2

  marriage 2.1, 3.1, 6.1

  Mars

  Martin, Agnes

  Marx, Karl

  Mary, Virgin 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Seven Sorrows 8.5, 8.6

  Maslow, Abraham

  Mass see Catholicism

  meals

  meditation 4.1, 4.2

  metaphysics

  Michelangelo Buonarroti: Pietà8.1

  mikveh 4.1, 4.2

  Mill, John Stuart 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6; On Liberty 3.1

  Milton, John: Paradise Lost 7.1

  Mishnah 3.1, 3.2

  Missal see Catholicism

  Modernism

  monasticism 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2

  Montaigne, Michel de

  museums and art galleries 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  Musil, Robert

  news

  Nhat Hanh, Thich

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 1.1, 10.1

  Oe, Kenzaburo

  oratory 4.1, 4.2

  Original Sin

  Padua: basilica of St Anthony 4.1, 4.2, 10.1; Cappella Scrovegni 3.1, 3.2

  paganism

  Palissy, Bernard

  paradise 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1

  parenting 3.1, 3.2

  Pascal, Blaise: Pensées 6.1

  Passover 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  paternalism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

  Pentateuch see Torah

  Pentecostalism 4.1, 4.2

  Pericles

  perspective 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

  pessimism

  Pessoa, Fernando

  Philip Neri, St

  philosophy, teaching and study of 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

  physics, teaching and study of

  pilgrimages 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

  Plato 4.1; Republic 10.1, 10.2

  Plotinus

  population density

  Poussin, Nicolas

  prayer 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

  pride 2.1, 3.1

  progress, scientific and economic 6.1, 6.2

  propaganda

  property development 9.1, 9.2

  Protestantism 9.1, 9.2

  Proust, Marcel

  Psalms 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  psalter 3.1

  psychotherapy 10.1, 10.2

  publishing 4.1, 10.1

  Pugin, Augustus 9.1, 9.2

  reading 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1

  Reformation

  Rembrandt: Christ in the Storm on the

  Sea of Galilee 8.1

  restaurants

  retreats, religious 4.1

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’

  Rita of Cascia, St

  Roman Empire 2.1, 4.1, 9.1; deities 5.1, 9.2; rise of Christianity 1.1, 10.1

  Romanticism 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6

  Rome: Basilica of San Lorenzo 9.1; Chiesa del Gesù 9.2, 9.3; San Lorenzo in Miranda 1.1

  Rousseau,
Jean-Jacques

  saints 3.1, 9.1; secular 10.1, 10.2; see also individual saints

  Salvi, Giovanni Battista: The Madonna in

  Sorrow 5.1

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Seneca 4.1, 4.2

  sermons 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Serra, Richard

  Seven Sorrows of Mary 8.1, 8.2

  sex: and marriage 2.1; religious laws on 3.1

  Shakespeare, William 10.1, 10.2

  shrines 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 10.1

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Paul

  sophists 4.1, 4.2

  Soth, Alec

  soul 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  spas

  Spinoza, Benedictus de 7.1, 7.2

  spiritual exercises

  stars 7.1, 7.2

  Stations of the Cross 8.1, 8.2

  status, social 2.1, 2.2, 10.1

  Stendhal

  strangers, fear of 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Struth, Thomas 8.1, 8.2; National

  Gallery I, London 8.1

  suffering

  Talmud 3.1, 3.2, 10.1

  Tarkovsky, Andrei

  tavolette 8.1, 8.2

  taxation

  tea ceremony see Zen Buddhism

  technological progress 6.1, 6.2

  teddy bears

  telescopes 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1

  Ten Commandments

  theft 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Theravada Buddhism

  Thomas Becket, St 2.1

  Titian 8.1, 8.2; The Flight into Egypt8.3, 8.4

  Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 4.1; The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.2

  Torah 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Torgau: Schloss Hartenfels chapel 9.1, 9.2

  Torments of Hell 3.1

  Trent, Council of (1563)

  tsukimi see Zen Buddhism

  United States 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

  universities 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 10.1

  urban life 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 9.1

  Utrecht: Cathedral of St Martin 9.1

  van Orley, Bernard: The Seven Sorrows

  of the Virgin 8.1

  Veneziano, Paolo

  Venice: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

  Venus

  Vipers, Father Chris 10.1

  Wagner, Richard

  Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2

  Wall, Jeff

  weddings see marriage

  welfare benefits 2.1, 2.2

  Wesley, John 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Whitman, Walt 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

  Winnicott, Donald

  Woolf, Virginia 3.1

  work: careerism 2.1, 2.2; commuting 2.3, 2.4; recruitment 10.1; training manuals 10.2

  Yom Kippur see Day of Atonement

  Zen architecture 1.1, 9.1

  Zen Buddhism 2.1, 4.1; chanoyu(tea ceremony) 4.2, 4.3; tsukimi(ritual) celebrations 10.1, 10.2

  Zophar the Naamathite

  Zurbarán, Francisco de: The Bound Lamb8.1

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