From Plague To Purpose

Author : Joshua Taylor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666757583

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From Plague to Purpose by Joshua Taylor Pdf

Pilgrimage has been a part of Christian experience since biblical times. Creating new stories, pilgrimage affords sacred travelers experiences that transcend nationalism, denominational identity, and cultural borders, melding their individual constructs of meaning with communal experiences to create new insights. On these pilgrimages, music has played a significant role in the development of community. While pilgrimage is an independent act, it is also a shared existence with other pilgrims, with music serving as a bridge between these two realities. With an estimated 100 million people undertaking pilgrimages at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the rediscovery of pilgrimage, and the music that accompanies it, has meaningful connections for the postmodern church struggling to find a new identity. The ecumenical communities at Iona and Taize provide particular case studies for the role of music in forming community among disparate travelers. The individual and communal nature of pilgrimage, the ability of pilgrimage to provide commonality in a diverse society, and the role of singing and traveling music calls for the reexamination of this ancient practice for the postmodern church.

Author : Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479825936

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The Church of the Dead by Jennifer Scheper Hughes Pdf

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.

Author : Stephen M. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733627251

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Faith in the Time of Plague by Stephen M. Coleman Pdf

Author : Rebecca Totaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317021308

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The Plague Epic in Early Modern England by Rebecca Totaro Pdf

The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious, and political upheaval. Showcasing unusual combinations of passion and restraint, heart-rending lamentation and nation-building fervor, these poems function as literary memorials to the plague-time fallen. In an extended introduction, Rebecca Totaro makes the case that these poems belong to a distinct literary genre that she calls the 'plague epic.' Because the poems are formally and thematically related to Milton's great epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, this volume represents a rare discovery of previously unidentified sources of great value for Milton studies and scholarly research into the epic, didactic verse, cultural studies of the seventeenth century, illness as metaphor, and interdisciplinary approaches to illness, natural disaster, trauma, and memory.

Author : Birsen Bulmus
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780748646609

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Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire by Birsen Bulmus Pdf

Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many Ottomans applauded the establishment of a quarantine against the disease in 1838 as a tool to resist British and French political and commercial penetration? Or that later Ottoman sanitation effort to prevent urban outbreaks would help engender the Arab revolt against the empire in 1916? Birsen Bulmus explores these facts in an engaging study of Ottoman plague treatise writers throughout their almost 600-year struggle with this epidemic disease. Along the way, she addresses the political, economic and social consequences of the methods they used to combat it.

Author : W. Gunther Plaut
Publisher : Central Conference of American Rabbis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bible
ISBN : 080740165X

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תורה by W. Gunther Plaut Pdf

One of the outstanding works of Reform Judaism.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679720218

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The Plague by Albert Camus Pdf

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Author : James Tytler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : BML:37001102861452

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A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever by James Tytler Pdf

Author : Pan American Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097456941

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Annual Report of the Director of the International Bureau of the American Republics by Pan American Union Pdf

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476797748

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In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor Pdf

The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

Author : United States. Public Health Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Public health
ISBN : UOM:39015039721256

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Report of the Federal Security Agency by United States. Public Health Service Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2154 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015020980804

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Journal of the American Medical Association by Anonim Pdf

Includes proceedings of the association, papers read at the annual sessions, and lists of current medical literature.

Author : James Galloway COWAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021861043

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The Cause and Cure of the Cattle Plague. A Plain Sermon by James Galloway COWAN Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : NYPL:33433071866671

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christos Lynteris
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262370929

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Visual Plague by Christos Lynteris Pdf

How epidemic photography during a global pandemic of bubonic plague contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and our concept of the “pandemic.” In Visual Plague, Christos Lynteris examines the emergence of epidemic photography during the third plague pandemic (1894–1959), a global pandemic of bubonic plague that led to over twelve million deaths. Unlike medical photography, epidemic photography was not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with exposing the patient’s body or medical examinations and operations. Instead, it played a key role in reconceptualizing infectious diseases by visualizing the “pandemic” as a new concept and structure of experience—one that frames and responds to the smallest local outbreak of an infectious disease as an event of global importance and consequence. As the third plague pandemic struck more and more countries, the international circulation of plague photographs in the press generated an unprecedented spectacle of imminent global threat. Nothing contributed to this sense of global interconnectedness, anticipation, and fear more than photography. Exploring the impact of epidemic photography at the time of its emergence, Lynteris highlights its entanglement with colonial politics, epistemologies, and aesthetics, as well as with major shifts in epidemiological thinking and public health practice. He explores the characteristics, uses, and impact of epidemic photography and how it differs from the general corpus of medical photography. The new photography was used not simply to visualize or illustrate a pandemic, but to articulate, respond to, and unsettle key questions of epidemiology and epidemic control, as well as to foster the notion of the “pandemic,” which continues to affect our lives today.