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Peculiar Portrayals

Author : Mark T. Decker,Michael Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSD:31822036469922

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Collection of essays analyzing the role and treatment of Mormons and Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books.

Preaching John

Author : Robert Kysar
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451417373

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With this helpful guide, preachers can find new and powerful resources for preaching in Johannine language and thought, as well as its use of narrative and discourse. It combines the practical with proposals for understanding the Gospel and 1 John.

Joseph Smith's Gold Plates

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197676523

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Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth to a new religion. According to Joseph Smith, in September of 1823 an angel appeared to him and directed him to a hill near his home. Buried there Smith found a box containing a stack of thin metal sheets, gold in color, about six inches wide, eight inches long, piled six or so inches high, bound together by large rings, and covered with what appeared to be ancient engravings. Exactly four years later, the angel allowed Smith to take the plates and instructed him to translate them into English. When the text was published, a new religion was born. The plates have had a long and active life, and the question of their reality has hovered over them from the beginning. Months before the Book of Mormon was published, newspapers began reporting on the discovery of a "Golden Bible." Within a few years over a hundred articles had appeared. Critics denounced Smith as a charlatan for claiming to have a wondrous object that he refused to show, while believers countered by pointing to witnesses who said they saw the plates. Two hundred years later the mystery of the gold plates remains. In this book renowned historian of Mormonism Richard Lyman Bushman offers a cultural history of the gold plates. Bushman examines how the plates have been imagined by both believers and critics--and by treasure-seekers, novelists, artists, scholars, and others--from Smith's first encounter with them to the present. Why have they been remembered, and how have they been used? And why do they remain objects of fascination to this day? By examining these questions, Bushman sheds new light on Mormon history and on the role of enchantment in the modern world.

The Mormon Image in the American Mind

Author : J.B. Haws
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199897643

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The Mormon Image in the American Mind by J.B. Haws Pdf

What do Americans think about Mormons - and why do they think what they do? This is a story where the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, the Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, and even Miss America all figure into the equation. The book is punctuated by the presidential campaigns of George and Mitt Romney, four decades apart. A survey of the past half-century reveals a growing tension inherent in the public's views of Mormons and the public's views of the religion that inspires that body.

Violence and Mental Illness

Author : Eric B. Elbogen,Nico Verykoukis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781479801459

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Violence and Mental Illness by Eric B. Elbogen,Nico Verykoukis Pdf

"When newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is frequently blamed. This overemphasis on mental illness fuels social stigma and cognitive bias that exaggerates the link between violence and mental illness. But science shows this link is weaker than commonly believed and that numerous other risk factors are stronger predictors of violence, such as psychopathy, younger age, being male, access to guns, substance abuse, and anger. Because overemphasizing the role of mental illness leads to underemphasizing the role of these other risk factors, this leads to suboptimal violence prevention policy. Conversely, if the media, policymakers, and the public recognize these stronger, multiple risk factors for violence, then this opens up the door to developing and implementing more effective strategies for evidence-based violence prevention that will lead to greater public safety"--

Movies on a Mission

Author : Glenn Reynolds
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650210

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This investigation into the little-known genre of mission-oriented films uncovers how Protestant missionaries overseas sought to bring back motion picture footage from remote parts of the world. In the broader religious community, mission films aimed to educate congregants back home about efforts to evangelize communities around the world. This book, however, demonstrates the larger impact of mission films on American visual culture. The evolution and development of the genre is highlighted from an early emphasis on "foreign views" in the 1910s, to interwar films providing a more detailed look at how mission stations functioned in far-flung lands, to Cold War productions which at times functioned as veritable propaganda tools parroting anti-communist discourse emanating from the CIA.

Isn't it Ironic?

Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000377019

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This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic? How do we accurately decode works of popular film, literature, television, music, and other cultural forms which sell themselves as bitingly ironic commentaries on current society, but which are also problematic celebrations of the very issues they purport to critique? And what happens when texts intended and received in one manner are themselves ironically recontextualised in another? Bringing together studies across a range of cultural texts including popular music, film and television, Isn’t it Ironic? will appeal to scholars of the social sciences and humanities with interests in cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literary studies and sociology.

The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen

Author : K. Mirmohamadi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137401335

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This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena.

Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches

Author : Daniel Parish Kidder,James Cooley Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018589883

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Freud Evaluated - The Completed Arc

Author : M. Macmillan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080867294

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Freud Evaluated - The Completed Arc by M. Macmillan Pdf

This volume is an historically based critical evaluation of Freud's personality theory. In it the observations Freud made are described and the theoretical ideas he put forward for explaining them are set out. The adequacy of Freud's explanations are judged against the logical and scientific standards of Freud's own time. The historical perspective will give the reader a sound basis on which to make a judgement about psycho-analysis as a method of investigation and a theory of personality as well as a sense of what Freud was about from Freud's own standpoint. Freud's endeavour is sited in the psychological and psychiatric context of the time, a period not previously given the critical attention it warrants. All of Freud's important assumptions and characteristic modes of thought are to be found in this formative period. The placement also brings out more clearly the basis of a number of the unresolved problems of contemporary psycho-analytic theory, such as the place of affect and the instinctual drives, the role of the ego, and the basis of treatment. The core of the evaluation centres on Freud's basic method for gathering data - free association - a method which is not much written about and hardly ever criticised. What is said about it is new and more substantial than the few criticisms that have been made. Although a very critical work, there is probably no other appraisal which allows Freud and his colleagues and followers to speak so directly for themselves.

The Character of Jesus Portrayed

Author : Daniel Schenkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRKWJ

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Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27)

Author : Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781855663459

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Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27) by Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard Pdf

Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize This book examines how anxieties about colonial power and national identity are reflected in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures during the Spanish colonisation of Northern Morocco from 1909 to 1927. This understudied period, known as the Rif War, is highly significant because of its role in shaping the identities that came into conflict in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Furthermore, the book makes a key contribution to Spanish colonial studies by offering a comparative analysis of Spanish representations of the Iberian Peninsula's cultural and historical relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews in this context, showing how conflicting visions of Spanish identity are portrayed through and in relation to them.