Living Icons

Author : John David Ebert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313377655

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Dead Celebrities, Living Icons by John David Ebert Pdf

This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways—ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day. We know their likes and dislikes, admire their talents, envy them for daring to be what we can't or what we won't. When they are snatched from us, we feel a personal loss and an unwillingness to let go. And so we transform these mere human beings into icons whose stars often shine in death even more brilliantly than in life. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar explores this phenomenon through a series of essays on 14 men and women who are, arguably, the most famous people of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Far more than just a collection of biographies, Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814632378

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Life of Jesus in Icons by Anonim Pdf

"In the Cathedral Church of Mary of the Assumption in Tbilisi, Georgia, in Eastern Europe, "the Word of Life" is proclaimed in the Liturgy, and also told through one hundred and thirty icons of scenes from the Bible, elegantly arranged along the Cathedral's side walls. For the faithful, these icons uncover the thread of love that can draw them to enter, through prayer, into contemplation of the image of the invisible God." "Thirty of these icons, which tell the story of the life of Jesus, are reproduced in this book together with the relevant biblical texts and a commentary written especially for the English language edition by Francis J. Moloney, SDB. Carefully chosen extracts from early Church Fathers shed further light on each of the events portrayed in the icons."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Plekon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 026803351X

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Living Icons by Michael Plekon Pdf

An intimate portrait of holiness as exemplified in the lives and thoughts of ten people of faith in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The author introduces readers to a diverse and unusual group of men and women who strove to put the Gospel of Christ into action in their lives.

Author : Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822350163

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Global Icons by Bishnupriya Ghosh Pdf

Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

Author : Cathleen Small
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502619792

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American Life and Celebrity Icons from Marilyn Monroe to Taylor Swift by Cathleen Small Pdf

Each generation has cultural icons that take the world by storm and mark the most popular trends in America. Take a look back at some of these iconic individuals and trends and their lasting effects on American people and culture.

Author : Lynn Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520944725

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Icons of Life by Lynn Morgan Pdf

Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950s, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89073144834

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The Living Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pramod Kumar
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 9788170171850

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Folk Icons and Rituals in Tribal Life by Pramod Kumar Pdf

Study of Mina people from southern Rajasthan.

Author : Dani‰l J. Louw
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781920689124

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Icons - Imaging the Unseen by Dani‰l J. Louw Pdf

ÿ The experience of the divine has been referred to by many artists over the centuries, whether their subject was the human figure, landscape, still life or indeed religious or biblical themes. Art therefore requires a kind of openness; a willingness to mediate rather than to control. This sensitivity can best be described as humility, an obeisance to something we are part of. Therefore, to 'see' the 'unseen' in visual arts brings about awe and requires 'iconic viewing'. The spiritual realm, as portrayed by icons, has a healing quality in a world where the news and the arts are so full of tragedy and where the church's message so often sounds escapist or na‹ve.

Author : Radu Bordeianu
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813236896

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Icon of the Kingdom of God by Radu Bordeianu Pdf

What is the Church? Some would answer this question by studying the Scriptures, the history of the Church, and contemporary theologians, thus addressing the theological nature of the Church. Others would answer based on statistics, interviews, and personal observation, thus focusing on the experience of the Church. These theological and experiential perspectives are in tension, or at times even opposed. Whereas the first might speak about the local church as the diocese gathered in the Liturgy presided over by its bishop, the latter would describe the local church as the parish community celebrating the Liturgy together with the parish priest, never experiencing a sole liturgy that gathers an entire diocese around its bishop. Whereas a theologian might abstractly describe the Church as a reflection of the Trinity, a regular church-member might concretely experience the Church as a community that manifests the Kingdom of God in its outreach ministries. Radu Bordeianu attempts to bring these two perspectives together, starting from the concrete experience of the Church, engaging this experience with the theological tradition of the Church, extracting ecclesiological principles from this combined approach, and then highlighting concrete situations that reflect those standards or proposing correctives, when necessary. Without pretending to be a complete Orthodox ecclesiology, Icon of the Kingdom of God addresses the most important topics related to the Church. It progresses according to one's experience of the Church from baptism, to the family, parish, Liturgy, and priesthood, followed by analyses of synodality and nationality. Arguing that the Church is an icon of the Kingdom of God, this volume brings together the past theological heritage and the present experience of the Church while having three methodological characteristics: experiential, Kingdom-centered, and ecumenical.

Author : Jim Forest
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Icons
ISBN : 9781608330775

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Praying with Icons by Jim Forest Pdf

Author : Gregory Collins
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Devotional exercises
ISBN : 0814629350

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The Glenstal Book of Icons by Gregory Collins Pdf

From the same Irish monastery that gave us the best-selling The Glenstal Book of Prayer, with over 150, -000 copies sold worldwide! The Glenstal Book of Icons presents meditations and prayers on a selection of icons from the Glenstal Abbey Icon Chapel. The process is that of lectio divina, where the icon itself is the text to be read and considered, leading to a meditation on the text - or icon - which in turn leads to prayer. Each icon is reproduced in full color. A substantial introduction places the icon in its context in Eastern Christianity, looks at the theology of icons and then at the Eastern approach to praying with icons. Special emphasis is given to The Jesus Prayer which is then used in various forms throughout the meditations which follow. Gregory Collins, OSB, is a monk of Glenstal Abbey, Ireland.

Author : Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567359216

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A History of Christian Doctrine by Hubert Cunliffe-Jones Pdf

Anyone who is interested in constructive theology needs a knowledge of the history of Christian theology. In succession to the classic History of Christian Doctrine by G. P. Fisher, Professor Cunliffe-Jones has brought together a team of experts in the various periods to provide a new and comprehensive survey of the field.All the great themes, the Fathers, the Heretics of the long story here find their due place, from sub-apostolic Christianity to Vatican II. Also featured are the contribution of Orthodox theology to the whole development, the complex problems of the pre-Reformation period and the troubled modern period with its new perspectives of Church and society and its deep underlying malaise. Includes contributions from G. W. H. Lampe, Kallistos Ware, David Knowles, E. Gordon Rupp, Benjamin Drewery, Basil Hall, T. H. L. Parker, H. F. Woodhouse, R. Buick Knox and John H. S. Kent.

Author : Jeremy Prestholdt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190092641

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Icons of Dissent by Jeremy Prestholdt Pdf

The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.

Author : John Cort
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195385021

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Framing the Jina by John Cort Pdf

"Through an insightful study of Jain narratives ranging over fifteen hundred years, John Cort explores the imaginative ways in which Jains have explained the presence of icons of hundreds of thousands of Jina icons in temples throughout India. A majority of Jain narratives revere and celebrate the icons, and so justifiy their existence. Narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain communities, however, perceive the existence of temple icons as troubling signs of decay and corruption. These alternative narratives view them as false idols, not holy icons." "Cort examines in detail the most significant pro- and anti-icon narratives. Some narratives take the form of histories of the origins and spread of icons; others consist of cosmological descriptions, depicting a vast universe filled with eternal Jain icons. Cort even delves into psychological explanations of the presence of the icons, in which icons are defended as necessary spiritual corollaries to the very fact of human physicality." --Book Jacket.