Deities And Divas

Author : Peter A. Jackson,Benjamin Baumann
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788776943080

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Deities and Divas by Peter A. Jackson,Benjamin Baumann Pdf

In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing female spirit; he believes she will offer more support for his gay lifestyle than the path of LGBTQ activism. The only son of a Chinese trading family in Bangkok finds acceptance for his homosexuality and crossdressing when he becomes the medium for a revered female Chinese deity. And in northern Thailand, female mediums smoke, drink, flaunt butch masculine poses and flirt with female followers when they are ritually possessed by male warrior deities. Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local queer cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between queer and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and queer studies.

Author : Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière ,Peter A. Jackson
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788776943097

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Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière ,Peter A. Jackson Pdf

In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are witnessing an upsurge of spirit possession cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata, including the urban poor, rising middle classes and elite groups, and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume reveals both the central historical place of spirit possession rituals in the Buddhist cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and their important contemporary roles to enhance prosperity and protection. This book examines the increasing prominence of spirit mediumship and divination across the region by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. It advances beyond critiques of the “secularization” and “disenchantment” theses to explore the processes of modernity that are actively producing magical worldviews and stimulating the rise of spirit cults. As such, it not only challenges the assumptions of modernization theory but demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.

Author : Lalit K. Kilam
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Yoga
ISBN : 9781468539820

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Yoga Is a Mantra by Lalit K. Kilam Pdf

Summarium de 'Yoga is a mantra' We as a modern Society with all the high material and technological achievements are aware of being as if in the Arca Noae. According to the prominant Western Philosophies this temporality of human beings achieved in the form of Physiological, social, cultural, material and religious gives us a sense of our self esteem. A philosophical thought propounded in 'Yoga is a mantra' based on experience and the metaphysical knowledge discovers the matrix of human Existence, Consciousness and its Conditioning. Methodology used for its deconditioning makes this philosophical thought dissimilis not only to achieve awareness for a healthy life but also makes us compassionate towards each other and above all makes us intellegere in our hearts the presence of the Lord/Dominus the creator of all the existence. A Yogin after attempting the way of yoga and its practices; asanas, pranayama, meditation and insuper the practices of Kashmiri yoga i.e. awakening of Kundalini which deals with the Consciousness 'Shiva' -as a man and 'Shakti' -as an embrio of a beautiful woman. Their cognitio sanctified in the midway between the 'Muladhara chakra' and the 'Sahasrara chakra' is an austerus technique no doubt but only justified by a Brahmin. It is a union different than achieved by the practices of Astanga yoga with the Infinitus. The ascetic technique of Kashmiri yoga is a process of transformation of the human body into a cosmic body in which the energy chakras and the veins play a consderable role profecto it can be experienced though difficult. This is the semita leading to extremus libertas.

Author : Dr. Ceretta Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781304338174

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Lord Deliver Us From The Diva by Dr. Ceretta Smith Pdf

This book speaks to very issue of how women should adorn themselves in TRUE beauty, excellence and intelligence that God gave them freely to rule and reign as daughters and princesses of God. Dr Ceretta writes with purity of heart and kindness of the Holy spirit as best as she knows how. I pray that women all over the world will read this book to discover the hidden treasures they carry within themselves and unleash that power that to change the world for so long dominated by men's Ideas of who a real woman should be.

Author : Holly Morris
Publisher : Villard
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780375760631

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Adventure Divas by Holly Morris Pdf

After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them. In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.

Author : Norman Solomon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666761467

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Making Sense of “God” by Norman Solomon Pdf

All over the world people talk about God and argue endlessly about what God said and what, if anything, we should do about it. Do they know what are they talking about? Do they ever seriously consider what it might look like or feel like if God actually spoke to you? How could you tell, if someone said God spoke to them, whether they were deluded, bluffing, or high on drugs? The reflections, dialogues, and arguments in this book address such questions, often with humor, sometimes provocatively as when the author suggests the ancient gods have returned to invade the institutions of our great religions, or when two spirits, William and James, viewing the world from afar, voice their doubt as to whether the human species will ever attain the pinnacles of cooperation, reason, beauty, and love. Ancient texts from the Mayan Popol Vuh through the Bible to the Chinese classics are invoked, and the discoveries of modern science from anthropology to zoology are brought into play as the reader is gently led to an appreciation of the role of religious language in modern society.

Author : Raphael-Seraphin Kutota Basisa
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798890277848

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Extraterrestrial Legacies of God, Jesus, and the Angels by Raphael-Seraphin Kutota Basisa Pdf

About the Book In some way or form, this book is unassumingly a nicer and a more logical organization and interpretation of compounding existing religious writings from a variety of walks of life. Herein, they are presented as proof drawn synthetically from those multitude of intellectual sources written over the last 4,000 years evidencing that the central figure of the persona translated as the reincarnation of almighty God of Israel himself in Christian literature is simply another Extraterrestrial Alien visiting Planet Earth for a purpose. Another visitor just like those well-known Anunnaki, the Elohim, the Nephilim, the Sons of God, the Watchers, the renegade Angels or other entities over several millennia ego. And, in the many ways how it is related to the current humanity's most pressing problem of whether we are alone and unique in the Cosmos as it is linked to the much-witnessed UFO encounters phenomenon. It also well outlined the latent consequences resulting from what is presented as postulate. About the Author Raphael-Seraphin Kutota Basisa currently resides in Lynn, Massachusetts. He would consider himself a futurist, a researcher, a world’s concerned citizen, and a great human being. He is a chemical engineer by training and earned an MBA and an ABD in Applied Management and Public Policy. He has written and published several technical and non-technical documents, commentaries, articles, papers, and other books along the subjects of his expertise. He believes in extraterrestrial life in regard to religion. Basisa is a person whose research helped to recognize early on the theory that we are all descendants of Extraterrestrials and Cosmic religiosity should be recognized in modern theology.

Author : Peter A Jackson
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814951975

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Capitalism Magic Thailand by Peter A Jackson Pdf

By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship—which have emerged together in Thailand’s dynamic religious field in recent decades—Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour’s account of modernity as a condition fractured between rationalizing ideology and hybridizing practice is expanded to explain the apparent paradox of new forms of magical ritual emerging alongside religious fundamentalism across a wide range of Asian societies. In Thailand, novel and increasingly popular varieties of ritual now form a symbolic complex in which originally distinct cults centred on Indian deities, Chinese gods and Thai religious and royal figures have merged in commercial spaces and media sites to sacralize the market and wealth production. Emerging within popular culture, this complex of cults of wealth, amulets and spirit mediumship is supported by all levels of Thai society, including those at the acme of economic and political power. New theoretical frameworks are presented in analyses that challenge the view that magic is a residue of premodernity, placing the dramatic transformations of cultic ritual centre stage in modern Thai history. It is concluded that modern enchantment arises at the confluence of three processes: neoliberal capitalism’s production of occult economies, the auraticizing effects of technologies of mass mediatization, and the performative force of ritual in religious fields where practice takes precedence over doctrine.

Author : Mary W. Cornog
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0877799105

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Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder by Mary W. Cornog Pdf

The ideal book for people who want to increase their word power. Thorough coverage of 1,200 words and 240 roots while introducing 2,300 words. The Vocabulary Builder is organized by Greek and Latin roots for effective study with nearly 250 new words and roots. Includes quizzes after each root discussion to test progress. A great study aid for students preparing to take standardized tests.

Author : James Gardner
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382329686

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The Faiths of the World by James Gardner Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Sanjay Patel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101657799

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The Little Book of Hindu Deities by Sanjay Patel Pdf

Pixar animator and Academy Award–nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay’s Super Team) brings to life Hinduism’s most important gods and goddesses—and one sacred stone—in fun, full-color illustrations, each accompanied by a short, lively profile. The Little Book of Hindu Deities is chock-full of monsters, demons, noble warriors, and divine divas. Find out why Ganesha has an elephant’s head (his father cut his off!); why Kali, the goddess of time, is known as the “Black One” (she’s a bit goth); and what “Hare Krishna” really means. “Throw another ingredient in the American spirituality blender. Pop culture is veering into Hinduism.”—USA Today

Author : Seth William Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Coins, Roman
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030781020

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A Dictionary of Roman Coins, Republican and Imperial by Seth William Stevenson Pdf

Author : Dilip Kadodwala
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-24
Category : Hindu festivals
ISBN : 9780174280545

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Hinduism Teacher's Resource Book by Dilip Kadodwala Pdf

An overview of the Hindu religion, including its history, scriptures, ceremonies, and customs.

Author : Peter Aggleton,Rob Cover,Carmen H. Logie,Christy E. Newman,Richard Parker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003801849

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Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights by Peter Aggleton,Rob Cover,Carmen H. Logie,Christy E. Newman,Richard Parker Pdf

Thoroughly updated with over 30 newly written chapters, this edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of the field. Social researchers and their allies have worked hard in past decades to find new ways of understanding sexuality in a rapidly changing world. Growing attention is now given to the way sexuality intersects with other structures such as gender, age, ethnicity/race and disability, and increasing value is seen in a positive approach focused on ethics, pleasure, mutuality and reciprocity. This Handbook explores: theory, politics and early development of sexuality studies ways in which language, discourse and identification have become central to research on sex, sexuality and gender key issues across the broad media and digital ecology, demonstrating the centrality of representation, communication and digital technologies to sexual and gender practices research focusing on the body and its sexual pleasures work on forms of inequality, violence and abuse that are linked to sex, gender and sexuality The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers and educators working in the fields of sexuality studies, gender studies, sexual health and human rights, and offers key reading for mid-level and advanced students.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027134264

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... The Second Edition by Edward Gibbon Pdf