Bastards And Believers

Author : Theodor Dunkelgrun,Pawel Maciejko
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812251883

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Bastards and Believers by Theodor Dunkelgrun,Pawel Maciejko Pdf

A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities. Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions. Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life. Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff.

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110768343

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The Marrano Way by Agata Bielik-Robson Pdf

The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or conversos), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract ego, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own marranismo in a manner that soon became paradigmatic to other Jewish thinkers entering the scene of Western modernity, from Spinoza to Derrida. The essays in the volume offer thus a new view of a "Marrano modernity," which aims to radically transform our approach to the genesis of the modern subject and shed a new light on its secret religious life as surviving the process of secularization, although merely in the form of secret traces.

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501392627

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Derrida's Marrano Passover by Agata Bielik-Robson Pdf

In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' – where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' – Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks at all possible aspects of Derrida's Marrano identification in order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as Marranos cannot be characterized as either Jewish or Christian, so is Derrida's 'universal Marranism' an invitation to think philosophically, politically and – last but not least – metaphysically without rigid categories of identity and belonging. By concentrating on Derrida's deliberate choice of marranismo, Bielik-Robson shows that it penetrates deep into the very core of his late thinking, constantly drawing on the literary works of Kafka, Celan, Joyce, Cixous and Valéry, and throws a new light on his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology, Dissemination and 'Différance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of many of Derrida's works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano issue, like Glas, Given Time: Counterfeit Money, Death Penalty Seminar, and Specters of Marx. In these new readings, this book demonstrates that the Marrano Derrida is not a marginal auto-biographical figure overshadowed by Derrida the Philosopher: it is one and the same thinker who discovered marranismo as a literary trope of openness, offering up a new genre of philosophical story-telling which centers around Derrida's Marrano 'auto-fable'.

Author : J. Godley-Ramos
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615158365

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A Bastard's Refuge II Rejected by Man But Adopted by God by J. Godley-Ramos Pdf

Grab hold to those nerve pills! A Bastard's Refuge II catapults you to a place where the fearful dare not tread; taking you on a riveting journey as it exposes "Pulpit Venom." What is a person to do when he/she is under the leadership of a "Ravenous Wolf" instead of a loving, pastor? Unlike others that merely dance around the issue, this book goes there and blows the wolves out of the water. A true firebrand, Prophetess J. Godley-Ramos puts it down hard - so get ready to say "AMEN" or "OUCH!" Whew! The "Bootleg Shepherds", the "Wolf Clerics" the "Prophet Wannabes" and sadly, even the poor "Slumbering Sheep" are in for a rude awakening. "ABR II" is a crooked pastor's worse nightmare, but it is the answer to prayer for the many who have been wounded by them. No longer will they rape the flock and go free. "Bootlegs" give God's good pastor's a bad name. The church may not be ready for this one, because things will never be the same again-we mean it! "Dagon shall fall down!"

Author : Samuel FISHER (Quaker Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1669
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021009756

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Baptism before, or after faith&repentance, largely discussed; not only in publick disputations ... but also Mr. Baxter, Dr. Holms ... and many others, their arguments for and against, truly controverted ... By S(amuel) F(isher), M.A. by Samuel FISHER (Quaker Minister.) Pdf

Author : Walt Huber,Rose Huber
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781460211298

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How Did God Do It? by Walt Huber,Rose Huber Pdf

Have you ever wondered... How Did God Do It? How did God perform the many miracles and supernatural events described in the Holy Bible — without violating the laws of physics and chemistry that He Himself put into place? And without conflicting with the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity? This book proposes a theory that marries faith and rationality in a symphony of science and scripture.

Author : Nicholas Carl Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781304823632

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"Pathways 2 Truth: A Devotional for Hardcore Believers" by Nicholas Carl Moore Pdf

P2T has been written as a non-traditional, spiritual devotional dedicated to provoking the reader toward truth in the Word of God. Our daily experiences are our catalyst to share the love of God through Christ Jesus. You have heard it said that, "you are what you eat." To that end, P2T is an "all-you-can-eat" spiritual buffet! Bon a petite!

Author : John Ralston Saul
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476718965

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Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul Pdf

Argues that blind faith in reason has resulted in problems in every phase of social life, suggests reason is an administrative method rather than a moral force, and proposes some solutions.

Author : George Tait Edwards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781326064327

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Lucky Bastards of the 20th Century by George Tait Edwards Pdf

This book sets out the creation and spread of the new economic technology of explosive economic development from its beginnings in Frank Delano Roosevelt's USA from 1938-1944 and its subsequent adoption by Japan from 1946-1985 and its spread to the China sea economies of South Korea, Taiwan and China. The book also covers the reaction of British politicians, businessmen and bankers to this new development and the circumstances around the adoption of the neoclassical economics which is resulting in the continual relative failure of the Western economies. This book sets out a more useful economics which is currently being practiced by all of the China Sea economies.

Author : Curtis Hutson
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0873980824

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Bread for Believers by Curtis Hutson Pdf

Author : Nicholas Carl Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387179619

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"The Invisible Kingdom" Learning to See What God Sees by Nicholas Carl Moore Pdf

Author : Seacome Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Baptism
ISBN : NLS:V000290459

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Truth Defended, in a Supposed Trial Between Infant Affusion and Believers' Baptism. To which is Appended, a Letter to Joseph John Gurney, Esq., on Baptism and the Lord's Supper by Seacome Ellison Pdf

Author : Henry DANVERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1675
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023259159

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A Treatise of Baptism: wherein that of believers and that of infants is examined by the Scriptures. With the history of both out of antiquity ... As also, the history of Christianity amongst the ancient Britains and Waldenses. And, a brief answer to Mr. Bunyan about communion with persons unbaptized ... By H. D. i.e. Henry Danvers by Henry DANVERS Pdf

Author : Pastor Willie Mintah Essibrah
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781499014662

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IS THERE GOD? WHO IS HE? WHOSE GOD IS HE? by Pastor Willie Mintah Essibrah Pdf

Author : Tom Shipley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557529001

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Man and Woman in Biblical Law by Tom Shipley Pdf

This book is a doctrinal manifesto. Its aim and purpose is to produce what many modern writers are fond of referring to as a paradigm shift. The goal is to lay the foundation for the establishment of a truly biblical social order, especially within the community of Bible-believing, Christ-honoring families. The subject matter is patriarchy and the biblical exposition contained herein is devoted to establishing the proposition that it is patriarchy which is and was mandated by God ever since the original creation of man and woman. A complete Scripture and Topical Index is included.