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Author : Neafsey, John
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333608
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Dorothee Sölle
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451407084
Today, a kind of Rdemocratized mysticismS of those without much religious background flourishes. This mystical experience is not drawn so much of the tradition as out of contemporary experiences. In that sense, each of us is a mystic, and Soelle's work seeks to give theological depth, clarity and direction. This work conveys Soelle's deep religious knowledge and wisdom with her passion for social justice.
Author : Kathleen A. Cahalan,Douglas J. Schuurman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467446020
Comparative religious insights into the meaning of vocation in today's world The concept of "vocation" or "calling" is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation? In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling from these eight faith perspectives. The contributors search their respective traditions' sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation. Greater understanding of diverse faith traditions, say Kathleen Cahalan and Douglas Schuurman, will hopefully increase and improve efforts to build a better, more humane world. CONTRIBUTORS Mark Berkson (Confucianism and Daoism) Kathleen A. Cahalan (Catholicism) Amy Eilberg (Judaism) John Kelsay (Islam) Edward Langerak (Secularism) Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism) Douglas J. Schuurman (Protestantism) Mark Unno (Buddhism)
Author : Valerie Myers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136455513
Conversations about Calling explores management perspectives of the calling construct. Using Max Weber’s seminal work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, as a starting point, Myers seeks to enrich management perspectives of calling by integrating the contributions of other disciplines to the literature on calling. While the word 'calling' is casually used as shorthand for 'my ideal job', the calling concept has provoked deeper and varied interest among the secular and spiritual circles of both scholars and practitioners. Structured around the idea of four conversations, the book aims to promote a holistic examination of calling. Each conversation has a different focus, elucidating important dimensions of calling, and together they provide a truly comprehensive view. Part I of the book examines existing conversations in management, while part II explores calling across disciplines and eras, from the 1500s to the present. Finally, part III unifies all conversations in a comprehensive theory, then discusses its application and implications for practitioners and organizations. With a strong theoretical grounding, the book also incorporates practical applications supported by case studies. Anyone interested in ethics or management and spirituality will benefit from reading this book. Please visit www.conversationsaboutcalling.com to rate the book and write a review.
Author : Marie Dennis
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570757167
A Catholic mother with six children who is also a member of a Franciscan community in the inner city reflects on the many wonderful ways we can all serve in the Body of Christ ???????????????????????? sometimes all at once.
Author : Susan V. Gallagher
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christianity and literature
ISBN : 1617034592
Author : David S. Cunningham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190243920
This book champions vocation and calling as key elements of undergraduate education. It offers a historical and theoretical account of vocational reflection and discernment, as well as suggesting how these endeavors can be implemented through specific educational practices. Against the backdrop of the current national conversation about the purposes of higher education, it argues that the undergraduate years can provide a certain amount of relatively unfettered time, and a "free and ordered space," in which students can consider the kinds of lives to which they are being called. The book is divided into four parts; the first of these explores the broader context within which vocational reflection takes place (attending both to the current state of higher education and to broader cultural trends). The second part examines the contours of vocation from historical, theological, and philosophical perspectives, with particular attention tonarrative as a key factor in shaping (and accounting for) one's various callings. Part three considers the relationship between vocation and virtue, both of which encourage the cultivation of good habits with the goal of living a fulfilled and fulfilling life. The last part of the book explores vocational reflection beyond the classroom, suggesting that it can also be sustained through co-curricular activities, programs for community engagement, and attention to a campus's physical features. Concluding with an epilogue that summarizes that various pedagogies of vocation that are developed throughout the book, this book also suggests that vocation may itself serve as a kind of pedagogy by encouraging undergraduates to examine larger questions of meaning and purpose. At This Time and In This Place offers a compelling argument for vocational reflection and discernment in undergraduate education; as such, it represents a significant contribution to the emerging scholarly literature in this field.
Author : Timothy G. Anderson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803290259
American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Those qualities came to the fore in Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which he is best remembered. Over the course of thirty years he also wrote a five-volume epic poem, A Cycle of the West, which told the story of the settling of the American West. Despite Neihardt’s widespread name recognition, the success of Black Elk Speaks, and a list of critically acclaimed books and poems, Lonesome Dreamer is the first biography of Neihardt in nearly forty years. Timothy G. Anderson describes Neihardt’s life from his humble beginnings in Illinois, to being named poet laureate of Nebraska in 1921, to his appearance on the Dick Cavett Show at the age of ninety. Anderson also delves into Neihardt’s success as a poet far from the East Coast literary establishment, his resistance to modernist movements in poetry, and his wish to understand and describe the experience of the Plains Indians. Offering insight into both his personal and his literary life, this biography reaffirms Neihardt’s place in American literary history, his successes and failures, and his unbreakable spirit.
Author : M. Santos,Marcel de Lima
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137436405
Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality.
Author : Diane Glancy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803271069
The Cold-and-Hunger Dance is an imaginative and honest account of Diane Glancy's journeys to and from the margins of memory, everyday life, and different cultural worlds that combine her Cherokee heritage and her Christian faith. Along the way, familiar images and concepts are juxtaposed to create a literary terrain that is both engaging and unsettling: the Bible and Black Elk Speaks converse; Glancy's dispute with a local bakery is played out as if on a world stage of warring nations; eggs and cultural identity implicate each other; and lost Native languages speak powerfully through their silences to modern Native writers. The creative twists and darting metaphoric excursions engendered by this journey provide an intimate glimpse into the process and problematics of language for modern Native authors.
Author : James Davila
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004496996
The Hekhalot literature is a bizarre conglomeration of Jewish esoteric and revelatory texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, produced sometime between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and surviving in medieval manuscripts. These texts claims to describe the self-induced spiritual experiences of the "descenders to the chariot" and to reveal the techniques that permitted these magico-religious practitioners to view for themselves Ezekiel's Merkavah as well as to gain control of angels and a supernatural mastery of Torah. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological evidence from the Middle East, anthropological models, and a wide range of cross-cultural evidence, this book aims to show that the Hekhalot literature preserves the teachings and rituals of real religious functionaries who flourished in late antiquity and who were quite like the functionaries anthopologists call shamans.
Author : Georgette Loschiavo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557100675
Americans have been weathering this storm, but a sequel is inevitable. A nightmarish storm is hovering over Us right now, and the dark clouds are threatening almost every aspect of Our lives. In the wake of every crisis, there comes a moment when a lightening bolt of truth hits. The sting goes deep, (and anger arises when Our pretentious picture of Ourselves is disturbed, ) but, the pain of facing past mistakes will be worth it if it wakes Us up to remember Who We are. We must learn what it takes to be good stewards of the legacy left to Us. We are facing a tempestuous point in time, but built into every storm is the chance to learn and grow. We have to know Who We are and what is required to keep the dream alive. Change must come, but We must be the change. The evolution of both democracy and Humankind requires education and cooperation. Nothing more, and nothing less. The next step is a matter of choice, ...Our choice! It is time to learn from history and answer the call to take a stand
Author : Joe Gioia
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781438446172
A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.
Author : John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195351231
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.
