Beyond Devotion

Author : Łukasz Cybulski,Kristina Rutkovska,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky,Siegrid Westphal
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647552958

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Beyond Devotion by Łukasz Cybulski,Kristina Rutkovska,Christopher B. Brown,Günter Frank,Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer,Tarald Rasmussen,Violet Soen,Zsombor Tóth,Günther Wassilowsky,Siegrid Westphal Pdf

This volume is one of scarce studies of religious literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth conducted by scholars from both Poland and Lithuania. What makes this endeavour important is mainly the will to overcome the frontiers and strains of the modern world that encourage exploring separateness instead of the realities of deep mutual interdependency. Łukasz Cybulski and Kristina Rutkovska analyse secular and religious writings of secular authors as well as those belonging to the clergy and religious orders. Their main interest lies in exploring the different genres of early modern Polish and Lithuanian sermons and novels, and in tracing this heritage to its social and literary context through the works' material presence in manuscript form and in print. Other papers in this volume give insights into the origins of vernacular translations of the Holy Scriptures and the controversies surrounding them, as well as into the written testimonies of religious devotion and conversions. The aim has been not only to confront different kinds of texts and experiences, but to situate this heritage in its social and confessional context.

Author : Matyas Szalay
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666728941

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Beyond Secular Faith by Matyas Szalay Pdf

Attempts to reach an understanding of how to live a Christian life in the contemporary context have never been more necessary. This is the aim of the International Symposium: Beyond Secular Faith, an annual conference held in Granada, Spain. This volume represents the fruits of over seven years of scholarship. The title Beyond Secular Faith suggests we are interested in (re)discovering and reflectively elaborating ways to overcome the limits imposed by the dominant contemporary culture. We are convinced that only a faith liberated from the conceptual restrictions and reductions (put forward by secular philosophy and theology) and centered radically on Christ can flourish in the dimension that is proper to faith; that is, in all spheres of human life. Featuring contributions from internationally recognized philosophers and theologians such as Tracey Rowland, Jarosław Jagiello, Rocco Buttiglione, Alison Milbank, Massimo Borghesi, John Milbank, and others, we will explore a diversity of questions from this common perspective: the light of revelation illuminates how Christians should live in the modern world, leading to a new beginning.

Author : Christopher M. Moreman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742565524

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Beyond the Threshold by Christopher M. Moreman Pdf

Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.

Author : Kiran Bagrecha
Publisher : Kiran Bagrecha
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pursuit of Pure Devotion by Kiran Bagrecha Pdf

Pursuit of Pure Devotion Embark on a transformative journey of the heart with "Pursuit of Pure Devotion." In this captivating and enlightening book, explore the depths of your spiritual potential and discover the true essence of devotion. Drawing from ancient wisdom, personal insights, and timeless teachings, unravel the secrets of cultivating a pure and authentic connection with the divine. Through profound understanding and heartfelt guidance, uncover the path to experiencing love, peace, and self-realization through devotion. "Pursuit of Pure Devotion" offers a comprehensive roadmap for seekers of all backgrounds and beliefs. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned practitioner, this book will inspire and empower you to transcend the ordinary and embark on a sacred journey towards spiritual awakening. Within these pages, explore various forms of devotion, from embracing love as a guiding force to surrendering oneself completely to the divine will. Discover how to infuse every aspect of your life with love, compassion, and selflessness, and witness the profound transformation that arises from living a life of devotion. Addressing common pitfalls on the spiritual path, this book provides invaluable insights on avoiding distractions and staying aligned with your true purpose. Through captivating storytelling and practical wisdom, navigate the challenges and forge a deep and lasting connection with the divine. In "Pursuit of Pure Devotion," discover a treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom, offering a roadmap to transcendence and self-realization. This book is an invitation to experience the transformative power of pure devotion and embark on a journey that will elevate your consciousness, awaken your heart, and lead you to a profound union with the divine. Whether you are seeking spiritual growth, inner peace, or a deeper connection with the divine, "Pursuit of Pure Devotion" is your guidebook to embarking on a sacred journey of love, devotion, and self-discovery. Open its pages and let the wisdom within illuminate your path towards a life filled with joy, purpose, and divine grace.

Author : Ryan D. Giles,Steven Wagschal
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487510046

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Beyond Sight by Ryan D. Giles,Steven Wagschal Pdf

Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian writers crafted images of both Old and New Worlds using the non-visual senses (hearing, smell, taste, and touch). The contributors argue that the uses of these senses are central to understanding Iberian authors and thinkers from the pre- and early modern periods. Medievalists delve into the poetic interiorizations of the sensorial plane to show how sacramental and purportedly miraculous sensory experiences were central to the effort of affirming faith and understanding indigenous peoples in the Americas. Renaissance and early modernist essays shed new light on experiences of pungent, bustling ports and city centres, and the exotic musical performances of empire. This insightful collection covers a wide array of approaches including literary and cultural history, philosophical aesthetics, affective and cognitive studies, and theories of embodiment. Beyond Sight expands the field of sensory studies to focus on the Iberian Peninsula and its colonies from historical, literary, and cultural perspectives.

Author : Akeel Bilgrami
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231541015

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Beyond the Secular West by Akeel Bilgrami Pdf

What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, or is it even necessary, and has it always meant progress? A vital extension of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, in which he exhaustively chronicled the emergence of secularism in Latin Christendom, this anthology applies Taylor's findings to secularism's global migration. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Sudipta Kaviraj, Claudio Lomnitz, Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor, and Peter van der Veer each explore the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the collection closes with Taylor's response to each essay. What began as a modern reaction to—as well as a stubborn extension of—Latin Christendom has become a complex export shaped by the world's religious and political systems. Brilliantly alternating between intellectual and methodological approaches, this volume fosters a greater engagement with the phenomenon across disciplines.

Author : Ingrid Pedroni
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781800131187

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Beyond Fragmentation by Ingrid Pedroni Pdf

'Profoundly honest, unflinching in examining her own history as a thinker and clinician, Ingrid Pedroni challenges us to see where we have been and where we have failed, each of us.' Donna Orange, from the Foreword Ingrid Pedroni is multicultural to her core. Fully fluent in German, Italian, and English, she took that multilingual outlook to the varied world of psychoanalysis. Beginning her journey with a Jungian analysis, she later read The Restoration of the Self by Heinz Kohut and discovered a theoretical and clinical framework consistent with her Jungian experience. Thus began her engagement with different theoretical dimensions and clinical settings. Beyond Fragmentation is a masterly overview of the result of her open-minded exploration of not only traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic schools of thought, but also systemic family therapy, plus modern anthropology, theatre, and literature. Part I explores the integration of different theoretical and clinical models, with special reference to self psychology and relational psychoanalysis. Part II outlines significant areas of experience that build the sense of self and how it is represented in intra-psychic and inter-relational dimensions. Part III focuses on couple and family relations, their evolution over time, and how they represent an essential part of the self. The final part deals with the treatment of cultural diversity, the universality of attachment bonds, and the extreme specificity of their cultural expression. Throughout the book are clinical and theoretical concepts derived from authors such as Adler, Jung, Rank, Fromm, Ferenczi, Klein, Winnicott, Loewald, Bowlby, Bion, and, of course, Freud. The clinical examples illustrate how it is possible to weave together the various threads of theoretical thinking and clinical practice not only in the many diversified psychoanalytic schools, but also in the larger field of the psychotherapies. The varied themes covered include gender, couple relations, family therapy, spirituality, cultural diversity and integration, migration, transcultural psychotherapy, and collective trauma. This book is essential reading for trainee and practising clinicians, and may well help them to find their own integration of therapeutic experiences. Professionals active in social, educational, and psychological fields will also find much useful and engaging information to help them in their work.

Author : Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912237

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond by Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig Pdf

During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.

Author : Robert J. V. Hiebert,Jonathan Numada,Dongshin Don Chang,Kyung S. Baek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567705518

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Themes and Texts, Exodus and Beyond by Robert J. V. Hiebert,Jonathan Numada,Dongshin Don Chang,Kyung S. Baek Pdf

This volume of essays is focused on the significance of the book of Exodus for studies in the Septuagint, Second Temple Jewish literature, the New Testament, and Christian theology. A diverse group of scholars from various parts of the world, many of whom are well-known in their fields, employs a range of methodologies in the treatment of text-critical, linguistic, literary, historical, cultural, exegetical, intertextual, and theological topics. Parts of the relevant literary corpus that are dealt with in relation to the book of Exodus include Genesis, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Zechariah, 3 Maccabees, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, the Epistles of 1 Thessalonians, Hebrews, and 1 Peter, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in the areas of biblical and theological studies, as well as clergy. The distinguished contributors include Emanuel Tov, Albert Pietersma, Daniela Scialabba, Craig A. Evans, James M. Scott, Martin G. Abegg Jr., and Wolfgang Kraus.

Author : Mary Cybulski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000856156

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Beyond Continuity by Mary Cybulski Pdf

A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate and explain the skills needed by a professional script supervisor. Author Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood’s premier script supervisors, imparts her sage wisdom as she walks you through the process of training and working as a professional script supervisor, covering the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, determining screen direction, and knowing what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. She also details many of the subtler, but just as important skills—how to get a job, how to think like an editor, how to tell what is important in a script and on set, how to get along with the cast and crew, and how not to get overwhelmed when there is too much information to process. This second edition has been fully updated throughout to address significant changes to workflow as script supervisors utilize new technologies, software, and apps. The book also provides brand new coverage on how the role varies when working on episodic TV, commercials, and lower budget film projects. Ideal for aspiring, early career, and established continuity and script supervisors, as well as filmmaking students wanting to gain a better understanding of script supervision and film continuity. An accompanying e-resource features downloadable versions of the various forms, templates, logs, and checklists used by professional script supervisors.

Author : Sirshree
Publisher : WOW PUBLISHINGS PVT LTD
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789387696877

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100% Devotion by Sirshree Pdf

You are the Drop and the Ocean · Is devotion a worthy aspect in the modern world? · Does it make practical sense? · What is the true essence of devotion? · When does it become ‘divine’ devotion? · Why and how does it apply to you? This book introduces you to devotion in this modern world. It answers all your questions on what devotion actually means, why it is required, its principles, and its benefits. It shows how to develop devotion, and how to reach the state of 100% devotion—where you lose yourself in divine bliss to find your true, limitless self. When the drop realizes its oneness with the ocean, it no longer exists… only the ocean remains! Devotion helps you to attain the ultimate purpose of life. With wisdom, you can achieve liberation, but it’s devotion that helps you stay rooted in that liberated state. Devotion gives you the power to easily overcome the obstacles to liberation—the mind, its ego and its various tendencies. It helps you to lead a truly successful and peaceful life amidst these chaotic modern times. It brings sublime joy and melody to your journey towards divinity and endless bliss.

Author : Sumit Sarkar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0253342031

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Beyond Nationalist Frames by Sumit Sarkar Pdf

The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.

Author : Sigmund Bowman Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435018595603

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The Veiled Beyond by Sigmund Bowman Alexander Pdf

Author : William Bement Lent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433082470349

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Gypsying Beyond the Sea by William Bement Lent Pdf

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women
ISBN : 0801484626

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Beyond the Household by Cynthia A. Kierner Pdf

Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end--rather than the beginning--of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere--and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.