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Angels of Desire

Jay Johnston
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Author : Jay Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134937950

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The idea that the human body consists of 'subtle bodies' - psycho-spiritual essences - can be found in a variety of esoteric traditions. This radical form of selfhood challenges the dualisms at the heart of Western discourse : mind/body, divine/human, matter/spirit, reason/emotion, I/other. 'Angels of Desire' explores the aesthetics and ethics of subtle bodies. What emerges is an understanding of embodiment not exclusively tied to materiality. The book examines the use of subtle bodies across a range of traditions, yogic, tantric, theosophical, hermetic and sufi. 'Angels of Desire' shows the relevance of the subtle body for religion, philosophy, art history and contemporary feminist religious studies and theories of desire.

Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress

Xavier Mendik
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Author : Xavier Mendik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443882880

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In recent years, there has been an explosion of critical interest in the icons, genres and traditions of 1970s Italian cult film. Thanks to the international success of directors such as Dario Argento and Sergio Martino, and the influential giallo (thriller) cycle in which they worked, these unconventional and often controversial films are now impacting on new generations of filmmakers, scholars and moviegoers alike. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress: The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970–1985 considers the current interest in specific Italian directors and cult genres, exploring the social, political and cultural factors that spawned a decade of cinema dominated by extreme, yet stylish, images of sexuality and violence. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress situates the explosion of 1970s Italian cult ‘excess’ against the toxic backdrop of political violence and terrorist activity that produced shocking images of carnage and crime during this period. The volume also considers why the iconography of the sexually liberated female became recast as a symbol of fear and violation in a range of Italian cult film narratives. In addition, the book also analyses how longstanding regional distinctions between Italy’s urban North and the much maligned rural South fed into sex and death cycles produced between 1970 and 1985. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress profiles leading 1970s Italian directors and performers including Aristide Massaccesi (Joe D’Amato), Laura Gemser, and Dario Argento (who also provides an interview discussing his work and 1970s Italian society). The volume also provides case-studies of the giallo cycle, rape and revenge dramas, the Italian rogue cop series, post-apocalypse films, barbarian movies, and sex comedy formats. By considering the icons and genres from the golden age of Italian cult film alongside the crucial social and sexual tensions that influenced their creation, this book will be of interest to film scholars and cult movie fans alike.

The Body and Desire

Raphael A. Cadenhead
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Author : Raphael A. Cadenhead
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520297968

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The Body and Desire by Raphael A. Cadenhead Pdf

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life by examining within the context of his theological commitments his evolving attitudes on what we now call gender, sex, and sexuality. Exploring Gregory’s understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation for the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael A. Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

Brothers, We are Not Professionals

John Piper
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Author : John Piper
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433678820

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Brothers, We are Not Professionals by John Piper Pdf

John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.

This Changes Everything

Jaquelle Crowe
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Author : Jaquelle Crowe
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433555176

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This Changes Everything by Jaquelle Crowe Pdf

My name is Jaquelle, and I'm a teenager. I like football movies, sushi, and dark chocolate. But the biggest, most crucial, most significant thing about me is that my life's task is to follow Jesus. He is the One who changed my life. That's what this book is about. It's for teenagers eager to reject the status quo and low standards our culture sets for us. It's for those of us who don't want to spend the adolescent years slacking off, but rather standing out and digging deep into what Jesus says about following him. This book will help you see how the truth about God changes everything—our relationships, our time, our sin, our habits, and more—freeing us to live joyful, obedient, and Christ-exalting lives, even while we're young.

A Taste for Brown Bodies

Hiram Pérez
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Author : Hiram Pérez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479889198

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A Taste for Brown Bodies by Hiram Pérez Pdf

Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Pérez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories—the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy— Pérez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence. Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the “birth” of the homosexual in the late 19th century, Pérez considers not only how US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was visualized for and through gay men. By means of an analysis of literature, film, and photographs from the 19th to the 21st centuries—including Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Anne Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain,” and photos of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison—Pérez proposes that modern gay male identity, often traced to late Victorian constructions of “invert” and “homosexual,” occupies not the periphery of the nation but rather a cosmopolitan position, instrumental to projects of war, colonialism, and neoliberalism. A Taste for Brown Bodies argues that practices and subjectivities that we understand historically as forms of homosexuality have been regulated and normalized as an extension of the US nation-state, laying bare the tacit, if complex, participation of gay modernity within US imperialism.

Desiring Martyrs

Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner
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Author : Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110682632

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Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.

Feeding Desire

Rebecca Popenoe
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Author : Rebecca Popenoe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Azaouak Valley (Mali and Niger)
ISBN : 0415280958

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Feeding Desire by Rebecca Popenoe Pdf

Based on fieldwork in an Arab village in Niger, analyzes the meanings of women's fatness as constituted by desire, kinship, concepts of health, Islam, and the crucial social need to manage sexuality.

The Syntax of Desire

Elena Lombardi
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Author : Elena Lombardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802090706

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The Syntax of Desire by Elena Lombardi Pdf

In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of Desire is an interdisciplinary examination of the interlacing operation of syntax and desire in three medieval 'grammars:' theological, linguistic, and poetic. Exploring three representative aspects of medieval language theory, Elena Lombardi uncovers the ways in which syntax and desire were interrelated in the Middle Ages. She suggests that, in Augustine's theology, the creative act of God in the universe emerges as a syntax that the human individual must interpret by means of desire; in the linguistic theory of the Modistae, she sees the syntax of language as parallel to a syntax of reality, one organized by the desiring interplay of matter and form; in Dante's poetry, she argues that the language of the fallen human is bound together by the syntax of poetry, an act of desire that restores language to its primitive innocence. In addition to detailed analyses of medieval texts, The Syntax of Desire examines some aspects of the same relationship in light of contemporary linguistics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis.

Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader

Nicole Brossard
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Author : Nicole Brossard
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566279

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Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader by Nicole Brossard Pdf

The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet. In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and unashamedly feminist and lesbian. Avant Desire moves through Brossard’s body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia, lectures, and more. Just as Brossard foregrounds collaboration, this book includes new translations alongside canonical ones and intertextual and responsive work from a variety of artist translators at various stages of their careers. Through their selections, the editors trace Brossard’s fusion of lesbian feminist desire with innovation, experimentation, and activism, emphasizing the more overtly political nature of her early work and its transition into performative thinking. Devotees of Brossard will be invigorated by the range of previously unavailable materials included here, while new readings will find a thread of inquiry that is more than a mere introduction to her complex body of work. Avant Desire situates Brossard’s thinking across her oeuvre as that of a writer whose sights are always cast toward the horizon.

The Body in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir

Sarah Fishwick
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Author : Sarah Fishwick
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Human, in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015056824777

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With Salammbo, Flaubert turned to the old Orient and Carthage's civil war with its mecenaries to relive his travels in the Levant and indulge in erotic and heroic reveries. Yet his alluring heroine gives way to political and military matter

Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging

Nick Rumens,Alejandro Cervantes Carson Cervantes C.
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Author : Nick Rumens,Alejandro Cervantes Carson Cervantes C.
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042022393

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Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging by Nick Rumens,Alejandro Cervantes Carson Cervantes C. Pdf

Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Bruce W. Holsinger
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Author : Bruce W. Holsinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804740585

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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture by Bruce W. Holsinger Pdf

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Fire and Desire

Jane Gaines
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Author : Jane Gaines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226278743

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Film DatesIntroduction - The "Race" in Race Movies1. "Green Like Me"2. Desiring Others3. Race Movies: All-Black Everything4. World-Improving Desires5. Fire and Desire6. The Body's Story7. Race/Riot/CinemaConclusion - Mixed-Race MoviesNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)

James K. A. Smith
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Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441211268

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Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies) by James K. A. Smith Pdf

Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-vision education through the process and practice of worship. Students of philosophy, theology, worldview, and culture will welcome Desiring the Kingdom, as will those involved in ministry and other interested readers.