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Author : Julia Armfield
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008608057
'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'A book of extraordinary sentences' MEGAN HUNTER From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
Author : Hans Raun Iversen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8763502658
A unique situation exists in the Nordic countries where there is a Lutheran majority living in ecumenical cooperation with other churches and ecclesiastical communities. This book attempts to shed light on what the churches have discovered they hold in common and on areas where they recognise that there are divergencies between them, both in relation to ordination and ministry, and in particular to the theology and terminology of ordination. The book brings together the research and insights of 23 researchers from all the Nordic countries studying more than 200 different kinds of 'ordination' rites from the Orthodox and Roman Catholic as well as Lutheran and non-Lutheran protestant traditions. After an introduction to the churches in the Nordic countries, the book presents 19 case studies from the Nordic countries. The last part includes some general ecumenical and liturgical perspectives on ordination and rites presented by international researchers.
Author : Julia Armfield
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250224767
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirls following their tour turn into something monstrous. After their parents remarry, two step-sisters, one a girl and one a wolf, develop a dangerously close bond. And in an apocalyptic landscape, a pregnant woman begins to realize that the creature in her belly is not what she expected. Blending elements of horror, science fiction, mythology, and feminism, salt slow is an utterly original collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock, heralding the arrival of a daring new voice.
Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571297245
Introduced by Annie Proulx, l ose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . . Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia in the early nineteenth century. In his journal, he records mounting tensions aboard the ancient, stinking warship, as officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped darkness below decks. But when something happens to Reverend Colley that brings him into a 'hell of self-degradation', it seems that shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself . . . 'It is the emotional veracity of life at sea that powers Golding's exceptional writing ... The fury, mystery and challenge of life on board .' Kate Mosse 'Golding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition.' Ben Okri 'A master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom - necessary, provoking, urgent, rich, complex and rare.' The Times 'Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies .' Melvyn Bragg 'An extraordinary novel.' Observer To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book One
Author : William HURD (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022437542
Author : Sharon LaBorde
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-28
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781105498374
Includes sections for both Kemetic Reconstructionist and Tameran Wiccan practice.
Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780271065441
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents—prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.
Author : Frank Gouldsmith Speck,Alexander General
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803292317
During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. Collaborating with Alexander General (Deskáheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness. In a new introduction, William N. Fenton discusses Speck’s distinguished career.
Author : Edward Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521263030
Professor Berry combines social history, anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies.
Author : Karen M. Gerhart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004368194
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan seeks to expand our understanding of the roles women played in rituals, how particular rituals were carried out, what types of implements or icons accompanied them, and how various ritual objects were used.
Author : William Hurd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Religions
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6343
Author : Christel Lane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521226082
Although considerable attention has been paid to those cultural revolutions which result in fundamental social upheavals, the less spectacular silent cultural revolutions which leave the existing social structure intact, focusing instead on the behavioural dimension of ideology, have been neglected. In this book, which was originally published in 1981, Christel Lane examines such a silent revolution, exploring the ways in which it was achieved in the Soviet society of the time through the instrument of ritual. Dr Lane argues that ritual in the Soviet Union serves as a means of rendering sacred the existing social and political order; and her comparison of Soviet ritual with the rituals of other societies highlights the way in which ritual mirrors both the problematic social relations of society and political leaders' major concerns. This book will interest sociologists of religion, anthropologists, political sociologists, and Soviet studies.
Author : Belinda Brooks-Gordon,Fatemeh Ebtehaj,Jonathan Herring,Martin Johnson M.A., PhD., F.R.C.O.G.,Martin Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313911
Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect. In this volume, we ask: What is the meaning of death in contemporary Britain, and in other cultures, and how has it changed over time? The essays in this collection tackle the diverse ways in which death is now experienced in modern society, in the process answering a wide variety of questions: How is death defined by law? Do the dead have legal rights? What is one allowed to have and not have done to one's body after death? What are the rights of next of kin in this respect? What compensation exists for death and how is death valued? What is happening to the law on euthanasia and suicide? Is there a human right to die? What is the principle of sanctity of life? What of criminal offences against the dead? How are the traditions of death still played out in religion? How have customs and traditions of the disposal of bodies and funerals changed? What happens to donated bodies in the biomedical setting where anatomical education is permitted? What processes are employed by police when investigating suspicious deaths? What of representations of death? These and other questions are the subject of this challenging and diverse set of essays.
Author : Virginia Burrus
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781451419467
The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline. Popular fiction, childrearing and toys, rituals of inclusion, the beginning of veneration of saints and shunning of heretics, the ascetic impulse, food practices—all these and more lend color and texture to the story of a "people's" Christianity in this formative stage.
Author : Jeanette Ellis
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781846941382
Witchcraft & Wicca.