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Author : Allan C. Hutchinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107017269
This book showcases eight judges that exemplify judicial greatness and looks at what role they play in law and society.
Author : Ingvild Saelid Gilhus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134717675
Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionysos, the Gnostic Christ and the late modern Jesus were all laughing gods. Through their laughter, gods prove both their superiority and their proximity to humans. In this comprehensive study, Professor Gilhus examines the relationship between corporeal human laughter and spiritual divine laughter from c`ussical antiquity, to the Christian West and the modern era. She combines the study of the history of religion with social-scientific approaches, to provide an original and pertinent exploration of a universal human phenomenon, and its significance for the development of religions.
Author : Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307450012
In this refreshing new take on spirituality, bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment—with a lot of laughter along the way. Meet Mickey Fellows. A successful L.A. comedian, he’s just a regular guy, with his fair share of fears, egocentricities, and addictions. After his father’s death, Mickey meets a mysterious stranger named Francisco, who changes his life forever. The two begin an ongoing discussion about the true nature of being. Reluctantly at first, Mickey accepts the stranger’s help and starts to explore his own life in an effort to answer the riddles Francisco poses. Mickey starts to look at those aspects of himself that he has hidden behind a wall of wisecracks all his life. Eventually Mickey realizes that authentic humor opens him up to the power of spirit—allowing him to finally make real connections with people. After taking the reader on a journey with Mickey, Chopra then spells out the lessons that Mickey’s story imparts to us: ten reasons to be optimistic, even in our challenging world. Chopra believes that the healthiest response to life is laughter from the heart, and even in the face of global turmoil, we can cultivate an internal sense of optimism. Rich with humor and practical advice, Why Is God Laughing? shows us without a doubt that there is always a reason to be grateful, that every possibility holds the promise of abundance, and that obstacles are simply opportunities in disguise. In the end, we really don’t need a reason to be happy. The power of happiness lies within each of us, just waiting to be unleashed. And Mickey Fellows’s journey shows us the way.
Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479454846
Hank was spinning quite a space lie—something about earrings wearing their owners. The crew got a boot out of the yarn—until they got to thinking.
Author : Sherre Hirsch
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385523622
The old Yiddish proverb, “We plan, God laughs,” expresses a truth everyone can relate to. At every stage of life we make plans, setting out where we want to go and imagining what we will be like when we have “arrived.” But things have a way of turning out not quite as we hoped or expected. In WE PLAN, GOD LAUGHS, Sherre Hirsch argues that too often our plans are limited to ones we think up at bedtime, or are devised by our parents, or by what looks good on a résumé. Addressing serious spiritual issues, Hirsch takes readers through ten basics steps for formulating a plan that reflects who we are now and who we want to be—a plan that is alive, organic, and in sync with God. Hirsch teaches the importance of letting go and recognizing that even the most ordinary life is extraordinary in the eyes of God. She makes no foolish promise that life will turn out as we plan, but shows that with hope, faith, and belief, we can change our lives for the better and make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Author : Terry Lindvall
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781479883820
Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He takes the reader on a journey through the work of Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, and Mark Twain, and ending with the mediated entertainment of modern wags like Stephen Colbert. Lindvall finds that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter. But there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.The changing costumes of religious satirists fit their times. The earthy coarse language of Martin Luther and Sir Thomas More during the carnival spirit of the late medieval period was refined with the enlightened wit of Alexander Pope. The sacrilege of Monty Python does not translate well to the ironic voices of Soren Kierkegaard. The religious satirist does not even need to be part of the community of faith. All he needs is an eye and ear for the folly and chicanery of religious poseurs. To follow the paths of the satirist, writes Lindvall, is to encounter the odd and peculiar treasures who are God’s mouthpieces. In God Mocks, he offers an engaging look at their religious use of humor toward moral ends.
Author : Lord Dunsany
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681463308
Men laugh at the gods; they often laugh at the gods. I am more sure that the gods laugh too. It is dreadful to think of the laughter of the gods. O the lute! the lute! How clearly I hear the lute. But you all hear it? Do you not? You swear that you all hear it?
Author : Charles Bukowski,Fernanda Pivano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015049650842
Cultural Writing. Interviews. Noted Italian critic, translator, and author Fernanda Pivano, came to the United States in 1980 to interview one of the world's singular writers, Charles Bukowski. The complete transcript of that remarkable interview is included in the book, revealing Bukowski to be frank and sometimes shocking. In lengthy and productive sessions, she discovered a man both the same and different than his published works. Surrounding the interview is a generous helping of comment, critique, and warmly worded appraisal.
Author : Jamala Safari
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : 1415201765
Love and grace triumph in Africa's killing fields
Author : Gerhard Staguhn
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1568360452
In the bestselling tradition of A Brief History of Time, a dazzling account of the age-old quest to unravel the riddle of the universe, which eludes us ever more craftily the closer we think we've come to it--or as the Jewish proverb says, "Man thinks, God laughs".
Author : James Allison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539986829
'Laughing At the Gods' was originally written in 1991, re-edited for this publication. Following some of the beat poets of the early sixties, I ventured into my own world of words and images to create what was to become this book. I shaved away some of the awful wording in the original and replaced it was what I hope is better grammar and more polished wording. There are 54 poems in this book, and each has its own sense of being. I address both philosophical and spiritual questions but leave plenty for the reader to ponder.
Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316233200
This is a comedy set in the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Wagner got it wrong. The Twilight of the Gods isn't really that cataclysmic. After all, there's a comfy chair, a welcoming fire and three meals a day.
Author : Matthew Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 163582138X
Is Your Life Working? Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined, or experience the joy we yearn for, unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem. When our bodies are hungry, our stomachs growl. When our souls are hungry, we become irritable, restless, confused, overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, discontent, and tend to focus on the things that matter least and neglect the things that matter most.
Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472220977
No comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion at all, featuring the gods as literary characters. His humor was traditionally viewed as a symptom of decreased religiosity, but that model of religious decline in the second century CE has been invalidated by ancient historians. Understanding these works now requires understanding what it means to imagine as laughing and laughable gods who are worshipped in everyday cult. In Lucian's Laughing Gods, author Inger N. I. Kuin argues that in ancient Greek thought, comedic depictions of divinities were not necessarily desacralizing. In religion, laughter was accommodated to such an extent as to actually be constituent of some ritual practices, and the gods were imagined either to reciprocate or push back against human laughter—they were never deflated by it. Lucian uses the gods as comic characters, but in doing so, he does not automatically negate their power. Instead, with his depiction of the gods and of how they relate to humans—frivolous, insecure, callous—Lucian challenges the dominant theologies of his day as he refuses to interpret the gods as ethical models. This book contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly, including philosophy, early Christian thought, and popular culture (dance, fables, standard jokes, etc.). His texts are analyzed as providing a window onto non-elite attitudes and experiences, and methodologies from religious studies and the sociology of religion are used to conceptualize Lucian’s engagement with the religiosity of his contemporaries.
Author : Bianca Marais
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735219335
A rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that jeopardize her life. Across the country, wealthy socialite Ruth appears to have everything her heart desires, but it's what she can't have that leads to her breakdown. Meanwhile, in Zaire, a disgraced former nun, Delilah, grapples with a past that refuses to stay buried. When these personal crises send both middle-aged women back to their rural hometown to heal, the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby upends everything, challenging their lifelong beliefs about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant grows, the complicated lives of Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family and identity that asks: How far will the human heart go to protect itself and the ones it loves?