Between Gods

Author : Alison Pick
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385677899

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Between Gods by Alison Pick Pdf

From the Man Booker-nominated author of the novel Far to Go and one of our most talented young writers comes an unflinching, moving and unforgettable memoir about family secrets and the rediscovered past. Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a supportive, loving family. She grew up laughing with her sister and cousins, and doting on her grandparents. Then as a teenager, Alison made a discovery that instantly changed her understanding of her family, and her vision for her own life, forever. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from the Czech Republic during WWII, were Jewish--and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. She also discovered that her own father had not known of this history until, in his twenties, he had a chance encounter with an old family friend--and then he, too, had kept the secret from Alison and her sister. In her early thirties, engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend but struggling with a crippling depression, Alison slowly but doggedly began to research and uncover her Jewish heritage. Eventually she came to realize that her true path forward was to reclaim her history and indentity as a Jew. But even then, one seemingly insurmountable problem remained: her mother wasn't Jewish, so technically Alison wasn't either. In this by times raw, by times sublime memoir, Alison recounts her struggle with the meaning of her faith, her journey to convert to Judaism, her battle with depression, and her path towards facing and accepting the past and embracing the future--including starting a new family of her own. This is her unusual and gripping story, told in crystalline prose and with all the nuance and drama of a novel, but illuminated with heartbreaking insight into the very real lives of the dead, and hard-won hope for the lives of all those who carry on after.

Author : Marco Ventura
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630875312

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From Your Gods to Our Gods by Marco Ventura Pdf

The global world debates secularism, freedom of belief, faith-based norms, the state's arbitration of religious conflicts, and the place of the sacred in the public sphere. In facing these issues, Britain, India, and South Africa stand out as unique laboratories. They have greatly influenced the rest of the world. As single countries and together as a whole, the three have moved from the colonial clash of antagonistic religions (of your gods) to an era when it has become impossible to dissociate your god from my god. Today both belong to the same blurred reality of our gods. Through a narrative account of British, South African, and Indian court cases from 1857 to 2009, the author draws an unconventional history of the process leading from the encounter with the gods of the other to the forging of a postmodern, common, and global religion. Across ages, borders, faiths, and laws, the three countries have experienced the ambivalent interaction of society, politics, and beliefs. Hence the lesson the world might learn from them: our gods promise an idealized purity, but they can only become real in the everyday creation of mixed identities, hybrid deities, and shared fears and hopes.

Author : Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590731552

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The gods of the North, an epic poem, tr. [from Nordens Guder] into Engl. verse by W.E. Frye by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger Pdf

Author : William Guthrie
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1971-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807057932

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Greeks and Their Gods by William Guthrie Pdf

Designed to serve as a religious companion to the Greek classics.

Author : Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9027934606

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Struggles of Gods by Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions Pdf

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Joan Josep Mussarra Roca
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379584

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Gods in Euripides by Joan Josep Mussarra Roca Pdf

This book is about the representation of gods (both as characters and as a subject for discourse) in two tragedies by Euripides: Heracles and Hippolytus. Its goal is to establish a framework for the reading of Greek tragedy and for the analysis of the various ways in which the gods of the Greek religion appear in tragic drama, and to apply it to the aforementioned plays. In this work we contend that such a framework should transcend the usual dichotomy made between a "religious" and a "non-religious" reading of Greek tragedy, and more specifically of Euripidean tragedy. This dichotomy contains in itself a cultural assumption, that is, the possibility of establishing a clear-cut distinction between a domain of religious discourse and an autonomous, profane sphere in which the representations of gods would assume a different value and meaning. There is nothing in the discursive structures of Classical Greece that allows us to posit something of the kind. The elements that appear to us as questioning the traditional representations of gods in Greek tragedy can be seen from this perspective.

Author : Alison Pick
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887842771

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Far to Go by Alison Pick Pdf

Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler. They are unable to leave the country in time to avoid deportation, but they do manage to get their six-year-old son Pepik a place on a Kindertransport. Meanwhile, a fascinating and compelling present-day strand in the story slowly reveals the unexpected fates of each of the Bauers. Through a series of surprising twists, Pick leads us to ask: What does it mean to cling to identity in the face of persecution? And what are the consequences if you attempt to change your identity? Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick's own grandparents embarked upon from their native Czechoslovakia to Canada during the Second World War, Far to Go is an epic historical novel that traces one family's journey through these tumultuous and traumatic events. A layered, beautifully written, moving, and suspenseful story by one of our rising literary stars.

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400836543

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Playing Gods by Andrew Feldherr Pdf

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

Author : Alison Pick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : 038567788X

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Between Gods by Alison Pick Pdf

An autobiography of award-winner author Alison Pick.

Author : Corinne Bonnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009394789

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The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions by Corinne Bonnet Pdf

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Theiss Bendixen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350265714

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The Minds of Gods by Benjamin Grant Purzycki,Theiss Bendixen Pdf

Why are humans obsessed with divine minds? What do gods know and what do they care about? What happens to us and our relationships when gods are involved? Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary, cultural, and applied anthropology, social psychology, religious studies, philosophy, technology, and cognitive and political sciences, The Minds of Gods probes these questions from a multitude of naturalistic perspectives. Each chapter offers brief intellectual histories of their topics, summarizes current cutting-edge questions in the field, and points to areas in need of attention from future researchers. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion, this book brings together otherwise disparate literatures to focus on a topic that has comprised a lasting, central obsession of our species.

Author : William STRONG (Preacher at Westminster Abbey.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1658
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020727073

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Jesus Christ Gods Shepherd, and the Man Gods Fellow, on Zach. 13.7. With his Ἀνανέωσις, or, the Two sticks made one, on Ezek. 37.19 by William STRONG (Preacher at Westminster Abbey.) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50232606

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The City of God by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Lang ShuDaDa
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649752178

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Heavenly God Sovereign by Lang ShuDaDa Pdf

His father was killed, his family was annihilated, endless humiliation struck his soul, heaven and earth were unable to accept this hatred. The iron-blooded youth went against the will of the heavens, his status was poor, and he descended to the underworld, where he roamed the world of the undead, where he turned into the god of slaughter and massacred the heavens.

Author : Glenn S. Holland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742599796

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Gods in the Desert by Glenn S. Holland Pdf

Gods in the Desert explores the fascinating religious cultures of the ancient Near East. From the mysterious pyramids, tombs, and temples of Egypt to the powerful heroes, gods, and legends of Mesopotamia, Glenn Holland guides readers through the early religions that are the root of many of today's major faiths. Holland compares the religions of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine, including Israel and Judah, from the Neolithic era through the conquest of Alexander the Great. He provides a historical survey of each region, then discusses the gods, the rulers, the afterlife, and the worship rituals. This accessible overview makes clear how these religions converged and diverged, and are intimately connected to many of the religions we recognize today, sometimes in surprising ways.