Carnal Knowing

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529013

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When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness that expresses physical prowess, self-knowledge, and spiritual discipline. What do we see when we look at Hans Baldung's Eve, the Serpent, and Death or Master Francke's Martyrdom of Saint Barbara? Why should those naked female images symbolize wantonness and shame? How do ideas about nakedness formed at the dawn of Christianity continue to shape today's sexual values? What must women do to take their bodies back? This revolutionary study by Margaret R. Miles, formerly Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard Divinity School and author of the acclaimed Images as Insight, sifts through centuries of Christian writing and religious ritual and, above all, Western art to reveal the origins of our attitudes toward women's bodies and their encoded meanings. Broad enough to encompass fourth-century descriptions of Christian baptism and contemporary theories of representation, Carnal Knowing is a brilliant, startling work of scholarship whose implications extend far beyond the academy to the way we live and see.

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725217522

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Carnal Knowing by Margaret R. Miles Pdf

When we look at Michelangelo's David, we see a nakedness that expresses physical prowess, self-knowledge, and spiritual discipline. What do we see when we look at Hans Baldung's Eve, the Serpent, and Death or Master Francke's Martyrdom of Saint Barbara? Why should those naked female images symbolize wantonness and shame? How do ideas about nakedness formed at the dawn of Christianity continue to shape today's sexual values? What must women do to take their bodies back? This revolutionary study by Margaret R. Miles, formerly Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard Divinity School and author of the acclaimed Images as Insight, sifts through centuries of Christian writing and religious ritual and, above all, Western art to reveal the origins of our attitudes toward women's bodies and their encoded meanings. Broad enough to encompass fourth-century descriptions of Christian baptism and contemporary theories of representation, Carnal Knowing is a brilliant, startling work of scholarship whose implications extend far beyond the academy to the way we live and see.

Author : Elaine J. Lawless
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608994113

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Holy Women, Wholly Women by Elaine J. Lawless Pdf

In Holy Women, Wholly Women, Elaine J. Lawless continues her work with women in American religion, and explores the life experiences of women in parish ministry in several Protestant churches--including the United Methodist, Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, American Baptist, Episcopal, and Unitarian churches. Applying an approach, which she calls reciprocal ethnography, Lawless collects and interprets the stories of ten women ministers and examines their public and private lives, their ministries, their images of God, and their negotiations of sexuality and the religious life. Throughout, she retains much of the dialogue, which developed between herself and the participants; the voices of the women are clearly distinguishable from Lawless's words and from each other's. These women are ordained in different denominations, yet their deep-seated beliefs about spirituality, God, and ministry are surprisingly similar. Denominational affiliations are less critical for them than is the maintenance of a theology of wholeness and well-being for all humans. By employing an ethnographical approach informed by feminist theory, Holy Women, Wholly Women contributes to our understanding of women in the ordained ministry. It will be of compelling interest to students and scholars in folklore, women's studies, and religion.

Author : Lee Huxley
Publisher : Author House
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449010676

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Sex and the Devil's Wager by Lee Huxley Pdf

Anti-erotic elements in feminism have joined forces with Islam and Christianity to condemn prostitution, the male gaze and the natural love men have for the feminine body as a symbol of universal beauty. The author, whose religion is based in Tantra regards these attitudes both wrong and offensive to pagans. Lee Huxley, claims to be a ?knower? - an enlightened one who sees with the third eye and whose wisdom and lateral thinking demonstrate his special insights in this book. Lee knows the truth ? the unthinkable ? that Jesus Christ, the hellfire and damnation preacher, is not the Son of God but the Son of Evil. If Christ is the Son of Evil, then Lee argues from this basis, that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are blasphemies. This book asks how Western civilization could be founded on lies, delusions and blasphemies that even today are still taken seriously. This book is the result of a lifetime of research which has culminated in the formulation of the Devil's Wager. The Devil's Wager challenges you, the reader, to name any moral idea from the worst evildoers of history that is as evil as the central teaching of the Bible and the Koran, namely that God will resurrect the human race and torture most of them in hell for all eternity. Fifty per cent of the damned will be women. The male God of monotheism is a hellfire pyromaniac: Jesus Christ and Allah are arsonists who burn women alive! This is the feminist issue of our times. Lee uses the writings of theologian and lapsed Catholic Mary Daly, one of the greatest feminist thinkers, to explain their common conviction that feminism must now assume the role of the Antichrist and bring an end to monotheism!

Author : Australia,Sir Alfred Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4JHS

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Criminal Law Manual by Australia,Sir Alfred Stephen Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Frilingos
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812294378

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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph by Christopher A. Frilingos Pdf

When Jesus was five he killed a boy, or so reports the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A little boy had run into Jesus by accident, bumping him on the shoulder, and Jesus took offense: "Jesus was angry and said to him, 'You shall go no further on your way,' and instantly the boy fell down and died." A second story recounts how Jesus transformed mud into living birds, while yet another has Joseph telling Mary to keep Jesus in the house so that no one else gets hurt. What was life really like in the household of Joseph, Mary, and little Jesus? The canon of the New Testament provides few details, but ancient Christians, wanting to know more, would turn to the texts we know as the "Infancy Gospels." The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is a collection of stories from the mid-second century C.E. describing events in the life of Jesus between the ages of five and twelve. The Proto-gospel of James, also dating from the second century, focuses on Mary and likewise includes episodes from her childhood. These gospels are often cast aside as marginal character sketches, designed to assure the faithful that signs of divine grace cropped up in the early years of both Mary and Jesus. Christopher A. Frilingos contends instead that the accounts are best viewed as meditations on family. Both gospels offer rich portrayals of household relationships at a time when ancient Christians were locked in a fierce debate about family—not only on the question of what a Christian family ought to look like but also on whether Christians should pursue family life at all. Describing the conflicts of family life, the gospels present Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in moments of weakness and strength, reminding early Christians of the canyon separating human ignorance and divine knowledge. According to Frilingos, the depicted acts of love and courage performed in the face of great uncertainty taught early Christian readers the worth of human relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Gazettes
ISBN : HARVARD:32044061794848

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Government Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Valantasis,Deborah J. Haynes,James D. Smith,Janet F. Carlson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525190

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The Subjective Eye by Richard Valantasis,Deborah J. Haynes,James D. Smith,Janet F. Carlson Pdf

One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who has influenced both colleagues and students over years of interaction and friendship both professional and personal. This volume honors a scholar and theologian of historical theology, a theorist and a practitioner of religion and the arts, and a keen analyst of cultural trends both ancient and modern. . . . [Margaret R.] Miles's prodigious production as a scholar has legendary qualities. Her dozen-plus books alone explore history, patristics, ancient philosophy, art and art history, spiritual formation and religious practice, critical theory, film, ethics and values, personal growth, gender and women's studies, as well as her true academic loves, Augustine and Plotinus. . . . The breadth and depth of her own work and her influence upon others demands an expansive volume, which the editors of this Festschrift unfortunately had to restrict to four categories--Historical Theology, Religion and Culture, Religion and Gender, and Religion and the Visual Arts--in order to capture the heart of our appreciation for her. --from the Introduction

Author : British Guiana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112203455789

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The Laws of British Guiana, [1774-1895]. by British Guiana Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Statutes
ISBN : NYPL:33433001214745

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The Laws of British Guiana by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Colwell Oke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Justices of the peace
ISBN : OXFORD:555004970

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Oke's Magisterial Synopsis by George Colwell Oke Pdf

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262692678

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Visual Analogy by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

A groundbreaking book exploring the discovery of sameness in otherness. Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, "we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference." Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind's intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience. The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199599967

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God and Grace of Body by David Brown Pdf

An exploration of the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. David Brown writes excitingly about the potential of dance and music - including pop, jazz, and opera - to enhance spirituality and widen theological horizons.

Author : Norman K. Denzin,Yvonna S. Lincoln,Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412918039

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Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies by Norman K. Denzin,Yvonna S. Lincoln,Linda Tuhiwai Smith Pdf

" ... The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explorer the indigenous and nonindigenous voices that inform research, policy, politics, and social justice". -- BACKCOVER.

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804150934

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Finding a Form by William H. Gass Pdf

From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today.