Manifold Visions Of Self

Author : Ujjwala Kakarla
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manifold Visions of Self by Ujjwala Kakarla Pdf

The book Manifold Visions of Self is a collection of poems questioning the freedom of self, in connection to nature and existence. In one way, one's search for freedom may be quiet introspection; in other way it may be a means of extrospection mirroring the humanization of the world in entirety. Some of my poems are interior monologues of my inner Self, musings on Nature and God. Moreover, a few poems question the advocacy of women's rights, and a few against inimical child labour. Some of my poems reflect the magnitude of general evil penned with language of freedom, power of reality and substantial action. All the poems are absolute invention of me and the facts which took place within my personal observation, a natural delineation of human passions, human characters and human incidents. As such, many poems speak more philosophically of my spiritual attachment with the unique things of existence.

Author : Nilakanta Siva,Mousumi K. Sachdeva
Publisher : Prowess Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781545744932

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The Agony and Ecstacy of Caregivers (Burnout and Preventive Action) by Nilakanta Siva,Mousumi K. Sachdeva Pdf

While tons of praise and empathy for the medical fraternity and for the patients struggling long term exist, very little seems to permeate to the home caregivers forgotten and forlorn. Forever silent throughout the battle and through those self-debilitating years of their lives, they remain among the long-lost perennial sufferers. This book causes a few to speak out, both those who buckled under the strain as also those who came out with joy and satisfaction at the end outcome. The ‘recalled to life’ dear one obliterates all the trauma of the past. We need to be more aware of how difficult the task of care giving is, and show respect and extend a helping hand when such a situation arises. At the very least, she ought to be respected as a human being whose sole purpose in life, for the time being, has been the welfare of the sick husband. This certainly has a cascading effect and a word of appreciation and a simple smile a day will bring more care from the spouse. This book establishes this without an iota of doubt.

Author : Claudia Währisch-Oblau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047428534

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The Missionary Self-Perception of Pentecostal/Charismatic Church Leaders from the Global South in Europe by Claudia Währisch-Oblau Pdf

Building on long-time research and extensive interviews, this ground-breaking study offers a portrait of pentecostal / charismatic immigrants from the global South who do not define themselves as victims but as expatriate agents with a calling to change Europe.

Author : Christiane Hille
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783050062556

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Visions of the Courtly Body by Christiane Hille Pdf

In 1603, the beginning of the Stuart reign, painting was of minor importance at the English court, where the elaborately designed masques of Inigo Jones served as the prime medium of royal representation. Only two decades later, their most celebrated performer, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham had assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of painting in early seventeenth-century Europe. His career as the personal and political favourite of two succeeding monarchs – James I and Charles I – coincides with the commission of a number of highly ambitious portraits from the hands of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck that displayed his body in spectacular manner. As the first comprehensive study of Buckingham’s patronage of the visual arts, this book is concerned with the question of how the painted image of the courtier transferred strategies of social distinction that had originated in the masque to the language of painting. Establishing a new grammar in the competing rhetorics of bodily self-fashioning, this recast notion of portraiture contributed to an epistemological change in perceptions of visual representation at the early modern English court, in the course of which painting advanced to the central art form in the aesthetics of kingship.

Author : Richard John Knowling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015067250608

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The Witness of the Epistles by Richard John Knowling Pdf

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003836490

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Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book analyses contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multi-pronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, moral anthropology, and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society, the dialogue between Karl Marx and Carl Gustav Jung, a critical sociology of morality and property relations, moral and political economy of the Indigenous peoples and a critique of modern civilization, economic evaluation, as well as alternative traditions of thinking in Marx, Thoreau, Gandhi, J.C. Kumarappa, Rammanohar Lohia, B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narain. A unique transdisciplinary text, the book brings together authors and approaches from both the Global North and South. It will be indispensable to students, research scholars and teachers of humanities and social sciences in such fields as economics, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and development studies.

Author : Roger T. Ames,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791494721

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Self and Deception by Roger T. Ames,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we rethink traditional strategies for explaining the phenomenon of self-deception. The concept of self is central to any sustained inquiry into self-deception, the pertinent issue being what sort of self is victim (or beneficiary) of self deception. Several of the authors here base their thinking on the model of "other-deception," and include discussion of the notions of double selves, multiple selves, and subsystems of the self, to address this troubling problem. Other authors argue that "other-deception" is not an adequate or reliable model to guide our thinking on this issue. The psychological and moral dimensions of self-deception generate a rich discussion, as do its epistemic implications. The concept of emotionality also receives sustained attention.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814993

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Cultivating Integral Development by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book cultivates visions and practices of integral development of the self, society, and the world. It builds upon deconstructions of development discourse and practice and strives to reconstruct and reconstitutes it as integral development. It addresses entrenched dualisms in development studies and practices such as between the self and the other, the providers of development and its recipients, materialism, and spirituality, and cultivates pathways of integral development. The book explores the many challenges facing development studies and practice such as poverty, creativity, political economy, moral economy, leadership, sustainable development, and evolutionary flourishing. It also opens the discourse and practice of development to cross-cultural dialogues by undertaking discussions between Euro-centric approaches to development and other visions and practices of development such as Purusartha, Swadhyaya, Sarvodaya, integral yoga, and Lokasasamgraha from Indic traditions. Drawing on multiple cultural and philosophical resources and traditions, Cultivating Integral Development is a pioneering work and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and actors of development studies, political science, and philosophy as well as concerned human beings around the world.

Author : Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030793012

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Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses by Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria Pdf

This volume brings sustainability studies into creative and constructive conversation with actions, practices, and worldviews from religion and theology supportive of the vision and work of the UN SDGs. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary content presents new insights for inhibiting ecospheric devastation, which is inextricably linked to unsustainable financial, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships. The chapters show how humanistic elements can enable the establishment of sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. This includes the aesthetic and emotive dimensions of life. The contributors cover such topics as empowering women and girls to systemically reverse climate change; nurturing interreligious peace; decolonizing landscapes; and promoting horticulture, ecovillages, equity, and animal ethics. Coverage integrates a variety of religious and theological perspectives. These include Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and other traditions. To enable the restoration and flourishing of the ecosystems of the biosphere, human societies need to be reimagined and reordered in terms of economic, cultural, religious, racial, and social equitability. This volume illustrates transformative paradigms to help foster such change. It introduces new principles, practices, ethics, and insights to the discourse. This work will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals researching the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific impacts of religion on the key markers of sustainability.

Author : Feryal Cubukcu,Sabine Planka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793625892

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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film by Feryal Cubukcu,Sabine Planka Pdf

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, as well as in superhero comics, films, and cultural and art contexts such as Ian Hamilton Finley's “Little Sparta,” the poetic verses from the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in South Africa, and the Australian wilderness.

Author : Michael St. A. Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739173527

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Freedom in Resistance and Creative Transformation by Michael St. A. Miller Pdf

In Freedom in Resistance and Creative Transformation, Michael Miller addresses the concept of freedom that is central to the grammar of Christian faith and important in a wide range of religious and nonreligious settings across the globe. He confronts the fact that despite the claimed importance of freedom there continues to be interpersonal, socio-political, and religious power hierarchies that keep some people dominant and others subjugated. The book suggests that often these hierarchies are informed by Christian teachings that deny freedom to human beings on the basis of their humanity per se. Having classified humanity as fallen, we are instructed that freedom is experienced by disparaging our humanity as we actually experience it, seeing ourselves as our own worst enemies and accepting bondage to God--the bondage reflected in the character of relations with those seen as God's special representatives in the world. Miller presents a case against this understanding of the human situation, and in the process he critically engages the Old and New Testaments along with ideas of significant representatives of Christian orthodoxy. As an alternative he promotes freedom that is finite, realistically libertarian, and relational as most compatible with the character of human beings that are partially self-creating and self-determining. Contributing to this position is the view that an infinitely temporal God, by character and desire, participates in human life in a way that ensures the requisite space for authentic decision making, from which emerges genuinely novel possibilities for human life. This dynamic has implications for the continued development of the human species and the quality of life in the cosmos as a whole.

Author : Theodore Weld Hopkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bible
ISBN : YALE:39002088449997

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The Doctrine of Inspiration by Theodore Weld Hopkins Pdf

Author : Katalin Orban
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135466329

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Ethical Diversions by Katalin Orban Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Wesley J. Wildman,Stephen Chapin Garner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566995269

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Found in the Middle! by Wesley J. Wildman,Stephen Chapin Garner Pdf

There exists a deep and broad population of Christians who feel the labels of 'liberal' and 'evangelical' both describe their faith and limit their expression of it. By working to reclaim the traditional, historical meanings of these terms, and showing how they complement rather than oppose each other, Wesley Wildman and Stephen Chapin Gardner stake a claim for the moderate Christian voice in today's polarized society. Found in the Middle! offers a foundational approach to the theology and ethics that undergird a congregation where moderate Christians can thrive. Wildman and Garner serve as helpful guides on a quest for a humble theology, an intelligible gospel message, a compelling view of church unity, and a radical ethics deeply satisfying to most Christians with both liberal and evangelical instincts.Pastors, congregational leaders, seminarians, and all thoughtful Christians will learn how truly moderate Christianity can unite the compassionate openness and social activism of liberal Christianity with the magnetism and spiritual fervor of evangelical Christianity. You may feel lost in the middle, but you are not alone there. The middle may be the place where you find yourself living most authentically.

Author : Edward F. Mooney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501305665

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Excursions with Thoreau by Edward F. Mooney Pdf

Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of “a child of the mist”; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence” over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie”-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.