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Author : Selva J. Raj,Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438429816
Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.
Author : Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015011013268
Author : George F. Walker
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040947389
It is 1859, and under the leadership of progressive Czar Alexander II, Russia is rushing pell-mell from the 11th century to the 19th. Serfdom has been abolished, and something approaching parliamentary democracy has been installed. Arkady, a fresh college graduate, proceeds with his friend Bazarov, a charismatic nihilist, to the estate of his father, a down-at-the-heels gentleman farmer. It appears as though dad and the housekeeper have just had a child, and dad is deeply in love - although their difference in class makes marriage impossible to contemplate. Arkady, enraptured with the new thought he learned at college, is eager to impact the New Russia, though he has no idea how. Bazarov, who has burnished his fashionable cynicism to a near-blinding sheen, has resolved to say or think nothing which is not 'useful.' It is surprising, still, how talkative he is. As we learn only at the end of the first Act, Arkady's uncle Pavel, a Europeanized dandy, has begun to stalk Bazarov's mistress, Anna - because he was in love with Anna's late mother.
Author : Pennie Brownlee,Kimberley Crisp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Child development
ISBN : 0473371170
The living and learning that happen through play offers each child their best chance for health, happiness, and success in education and living both now and in the future. There is no hurry for school learning. Study after study shows that leaving formal cognitively-based learning until after the brain has laid down firm foundations gives our children a head start when it comes to higher learning.
Author : William H. Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110805314
Author : David Torevell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567084469
This book argues that the liturgical reforms initiated by the second Vatican Council may have seriously undermined contemporary Roman Catholic worship. Drawing on important work by Durkheim, Bauman, Foucault, Turner, Duffy, Flanagan and Pickstock, David Torevell focuses on the most crucial element of Catholic worship - the experience of the sacred - and examines how it has been eroded since pre-modern times, largely due to the marginalisation of ritual expression, and its consequences. A devastating critique of the loss of the sacred in worship, this striking interdisciplinary study is a call for revitalisation of Roman Catholic liturgy through a 'reform of the reform' and the reclamation of the importance of the body in ritual expression.
Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190933272
""Disenchantment" is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly do we mean when we use this concept? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the history of religion? This book is an attempt to divest this concept of its enduring enchantment. The first chapters of the book deal with the three empirical disciplines history, psychology and sociology of religion to develop an understanding of religion that then lays the groundwork for what is presented in chapter 4, namely the most thorough study of Weber's views on disenchantment that has ever been undertaken. It turns out that Weber's use was highly ambiguous and that his grand narrative leading from the prophets of ancient Judaism to the crisis of meaning on the eve of the First World War collapses when we recognize this ambiguity. This makes it possible to construct an alternative that takes into account the dynamics of ever new sacralizations, their normative evaluation in the light of the values of a universalist morality and the dangers of the misuse of religion in connection with the formation of power. This book constitutes a challenge - for believers and non-believers alike"--
Author : Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226808574
The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age. Wife of Piero de' Medici and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Tornabuoni exerted considerable influence on Florence's political and social affairs. She was also, as this volume illustrates, a gifted and prolific poet. This is the first major collection in any language of her extensive body of religious poems. Ranging from gentle lyrics on the Nativity to moving dialogues between a crucified Christ and the weeping sinner who kneels before him, the nine laudi (poems of praise) included here are among the few such poems known to have been written by a woman. Tornabuoni's five storie sacre, narrative poems based on the lives of biblical figures-three of whom, Judith, Susanna, and Esther, are Old Testament heroines-are virtually unique in their range and expressiveness. Together with Jane Tylus's substantial introduction, these poems offer us both a fascinating portrait of a highly educated and creative woman and a lively sense of cultural and social life in Renaissance Florence.
Author : Carole M. Cusack,John W. Morehead,Venetia Laura Delano Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476636405
To the casual observer, similarities between fan communities and religious believers are difficult to find. Religion is traditional, institutional, and serious; whereas fandom is contemporary, individualistic, and fun. Can the robes of nuns and priests be compared to cosplay outfits of Jedi Knights and anime characters? Can travelling to fan conventions be understood as pilgrimages to the shrines of saints? These new essays investigate fan activities connected to books, film, and online games, such as Harry Potter-themed weddings, using The Hobbit as a sacred text, and taking on heroic roles in World of Warcraft. Young Muslim women cosplayers are brought into conversation with Chaos magicians who use pop culture tropes and characters. A range of canonical texts, such as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sherlock--are examined in terms of the pleasure and enchantment of repeated viewing. Popular culture is revealed to be a fertile source of religious and spiritual creativity in the contemporary world.
Author : Massimo Rosati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317062417
Ritual and the Sacred discusses some of the most important issues of modern socio-political life through the lens of a neo-Durkheimian perspective. Building on the main lesson of Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this book articulates values and practices common to non-Western and religious traditions that have the capacity to shape our modern way of living. Central to this volume is the question of modernity and scepticism with regard to mainstream Western wisdom; Rosati focuses on the notion of societal self-reassessment and self-revision, illustrating a willingness to learn from ’primitive’ societies. This reassessment necessitates us to rethink the central roles played by ritual and the sacred as building blocks of social and individual life, both of which remain salient features within the modern world. This title will be of key interest to sociologists of religion, philosophy politics and social theorists.
Author : Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0804755752
"The essays in this book were originally prepared for ... during the 2001-2002 academic year."--Acknowledgments.
Author : Max Mell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Apostles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048189513
Author : Ivonne Delaflor,Phil LaHaye
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595382491
Parents TRUST that if you are reading this book right now.[it] is mainly because your inner child and your children are vibrating in a higher frequency of love and growing in awareness to create a most conscious world. Your studies, your PhD's and mental knowledge are useless now. It is time to bring forth the wisdom of the ancients. It is time to show the spiritual face of the human existence. Many in the multiple universes are ready. Are you ready? Time to shake the illusory world! The children have arrived. -Excerpted from Sacred Messages for the Parents of the World As with all sacred texts, they have been given to the human race to guide us to be the God-like beings that we are here to learn how to be. This book is now given to us as a sacred text to help us guide our children from the moment they are conceived, as well as ourselves, into God-Consciousness. "The real war in this era is not in the battlefield, but in families." This book will help you to open the many gates of love in your families, in your world, and in your heart. - Sara Liebling, CNM Certified Nurse-Midwife Sacred Messages is a call to action - encouraging us to collaborate for and with this change. The loving wisdom of the re-parenting advice is seriously transformative of the current frame of reference we use to communicate with others and ourselves. -Barbara Jeske
Author : Lynda L. Coon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201673
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.
Author : Tracy Pintchman,Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438459448
Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions. Sacred Matters explores the lives of material objects in South Asian religions. Spanning a range of traditions including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism, and Christianity, the book demonstrates how sacred items influence and enliven the worlds of religious participants across South Asia and into the diaspora. Contributors examine a variety of objects to describe the ways sacred materials derive and confer meaning and efficacy, emerging from and giving shape to religious and nonreligious realms alike. Material forms of deity and divine power are considered along with commonplace ritual items, including images, clay pots, and camphor. The work also attends to materiality’s complex role within the “materially suspicious” contexts of Islam, Theravada Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism. This engaging collection presents new frameworks for contemplating the ways in which historical, social, and sacred processes intertwine and collectively shape human and divine activity. Tracy Pintchman is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago. Her books include The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God’s Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares, both published by SUNY Press. Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Nazareth College. She is the author of Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple.