Sacred Trust

Author : Mary Ann Heiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501752728

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Fulfilling the Sacred Trust by Mary Ann Heiss Pdf

Fulfilling the Sacred Trust explores the implementation of international accountability for dependent territories under the United Nations during the early Cold War era. Although the Western nations that drafted the UN Charter saw the organization as a means of maintaining the international status quo they controlled, newly independent nations saw the UN as an instrument of decolonization and an agent of change disrupting global political norms. Mary Ann Heiss documents the unprecedented process through which these new nations came to wrest control of the United Nations from the World War II victors that founded it, allowing the UN to become a vehicle for global reform. Heiss examines the consequences of these early changes on the global political landscape in the midst of heightened international tensions playing out in Europe, the developing world, and the UN General Assembly. She puts this anti-colonial advocacy for accountability into perspective by making connections between the campaign for international accountability in the United Nations and other postwar international reform efforts such as the anti-apartheid movement, Pan-Africanism, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the drive for global human rights. Chronicling the combative history of this campaign, Fulfilling the Sacred Trust details the global impact of the larger UN reformist effort. Heiss demonstrates the unintended impact of decolonization on the United Nations and its agenda, as well as the shift in global influence from the developed to the developing world.

Author : Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Hırka-i Saadet Dairesi,Hilmi Aydın
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781932099720

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The Sacred Trusts by Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Hırka-i Saadet Dairesi,Hilmi Aydın Pdf

This gorgeous, full-color photographic guide reveals the marvelous collection of the sacred relics at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, which houses more than 600 invaluable belongings from prophets such as Abraham, Moses, and Muhammad as well as a number of Muslim saints. Excavated from the most restricted rooms of the palace, the entire selection?including the pieces that are not on exhibit for daily visits?is compiled here for the first time in this fundamental handbook, making it perfect for students interested in Ottoman history, sacred relics of the Ottoman rule, or the broader Islamic heritage.

Author : Robert B. Ekelund,Robert D. Tollison,Gary M. Anderson,Robert F. Hébert,Audrey B. Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195356038

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Sacred Trust by Robert B. Ekelund,Robert D. Tollison,Gary M. Anderson,Robert F. Hébert,Audrey B. Davidson Pdf

Without meaning to be irreverent, it is fair to say that in the Middle Ages, at the height of its political and economic power, the Roman Catholic Church functioned in part as a powerful and sophisticated corporation. The Church dealt in a "product" many consumers felt they had to have: the salvation of their immortal souls. The Pope served as its CEO, the College of Cardinals as its board of directors, bishoprics and monasteries as its franchises. And while the Church certainly had moral and social goals, this early antecedent to AT&T and General Motors had economic motives and methods as well, seeking to maximize profits by eliminating competitors and extending its markets. In Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm, five highly respected economists advance the controversial argument that the story of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages is in large part a story of supply and demand. Without denying the centrality--or sincerity--of religious motives, the authors employ the tools of modern economics to analyze how the Church's objectives went well beyond the realm of the spiritual. They explore the myriad sources of the Church's wealth, including tithes and land rents, donations and bequests, judicial services and monastic agricultural production. And they present an in-depth look at the ways in which Church principles on marriage, usury, and crusade were revised as necessary to meet--and in many ways to create--the needs of a vast body of consumers. Along the way, the book raises and answers many intriguing questions. The authors explore the reasons behind the great crusades against the Moslems, probing beyond motives of pure idealism to highlight the Church's concern with revenues from tourism and the sale of relics threatened by Moslem encroachment in the holy lands. They examine the Church's involvement in the marriage market, revealing how the clergy filled their coffers by extracting fees for blessing or dissolving marital unions, for hearing marital disputes, and even for granting permission for blood relatives to wed. And they shed light on the concept of purgatory, showing how this "product innovation" developed by the Church in the twelfth century--a form of "deferred payment"--opened the floodgates for a fresh market in post-mortem atonement through payments on behalf of the deceased. Finally, the authors show how the cumulative costs that the faithful were asked to bear eventually priced the Roman Catholic church out of the market, paving the way for Protestant reformers like Martin Luther. A ground-breaking look at the growth and decline of the medieval Church, Sacred Trust demonstrates how economic reasoning can be used to cast light on the behavior of any complex historical institution. It offers rare insight into one of the great historical powers of Western civilization, in a analysis that will intrigue anyone interested in life in the Middle Ages, in church history, or in the influence of economic motives on historical events.

Author : Robert Nash Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0813012341

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A Sacred Trust by Robert Nash Pierce Pdf

Traces the history of the St. Petersburg Times under its publisher, Nelson Poynter

Author : Phyllis Hollenbeck
Publisher : Book Publishers Network
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9781887542258

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Sacred Trust by Phyllis Hollenbeck Pdf

Medicine machine, exposing its glitches and recommending a much-needed overhaul to make it hum.

Author : Hannah Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472089229

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Sacred Trust by Hannah Alexander Pdf

Dr. Lukas Bower believes in God, the Hippocratic Oath and doing the right thing.

Author : Mohamad Chehade,Khalil Jassemm
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781449092573

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Guarding a Sacred Trust by Mohamad Chehade,Khalil Jassemm Pdf

This is a plan for disaster recovery where the survivors are the key part of a swift and low cost repair of the damage. It is not a technical work such that everyone can read it and enjoy a few hours of learning. It begins in the future when you listen in to a mayor's up date from his disaster recovery team feeling that the recovery is proceeding better they had hoped. This starts when you are rescued and ends when you are leaving to live in your rebuilt house. More information is provided on how the Peoples' Village Plan can work and the preparation prior to a disaster to get ready. This is all summed up with a way to modify the plan to repair Katrina, and similar Gulf Coast disasters where people are still waiting for help. You don't have to be in a disaster zone to get some good from this book. You can learn how to improve your life and those around you by living a different kind of life. A life that can bring you more friends and security then you now consider possible. Don't forget your friends as they can be helped by this book. If they cannot afford to buy the book; send, or lend them yours. I won't care as it can help them. Besides, everyone needs something new to read, and received from a friend, it may make their day.

Author : Bereket H. Selassie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781728373195

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Desecrators of the Sacred Trust by Bereket H. Selassie Pdf

Two different leaders, with more contrasting characteristics. Comparing the two leaders from two countries with striking contrast in size, history and government structure may seem strange. America is a democratic republic with a constitution two hundred and thirty years old; Eritrea is a dictatorship ruled by an unelected former guerrilla leader who suppressed a ratified constitution and rules by decree. However, both leaders are dedicated to the destruction of, or at the very least, the demeaning of the primary values of the democratic epoch, namely, democracy and rule of law.

Author : Michael Katakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism & Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015029943555

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Sacred Trusts by Michael Katakis Pdf

These diverse and sometimes controversial essays redefine the concept of 'stewardship' in its modern context by exploring the fine line between interacting and interfering with nature. Touching on topics that range from catching a brook trout to taming a wild kestrel, the writers explore their own relationships with nature to illustrate and resurrect the dignity and economy of simple living.

Author : Thie Vieira
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438985855

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Horrible Mothers by Thie Vieira Pdf

This seemingly simple but truly complex question" True or false: "My mother was a good woman." This item has appeared in one form or another on countless psychological inventories over the years. The culturally-prescribed answer is, of course, "True." Even the people most abused by their mothers tend to rise to defend "Mom." The rationale varies: "She was basically good"; "She was never cut out to have children"; "She simply had no idea how to be there for me"; "Perhaps if she hadn't had me..."; "Maybe it was I who turned her into a bad mother?" As early as 1954 in his work with abused children, psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn observed that a child acknowledging to herself or anyone else that she had a bad mother or that her mother was a bad woman was tantamount to admitting that the child was, by association, a bad person --and so it becomes an act of self-preservation to hold that one's mopther is good, never mind all evidence to the contrary. In Horrible Mothers, pshychotherapist Alice Thie Vieira takes us into the world of individuals who have endured devastating damage at the hands of society's most sacrosanst icon: the Mother. Vieira does so with four chief aims: 1. to label abuse so as to be able to acknowledge it; 2. to recognize that the sanctification of motherhood is a burden that society has foisted upon them; 3. to help mothers understand how their mothering may have hurt their children; 4. to help victims of horrible mothering grasp the unfairness of what was done to them, to comprehend how it affected their lives, and acknowledge what they have endured so as to break free from unhealthy attachments to their inadequate mothers, and thus move forward and better realize their potentiality.

Author : Simon Buxton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594779107

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The Shamanic Way of the Bee by Simon Buxton Pdf

Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings • Examines the healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and the hive • Reveals bee shamanism’s system of acupuncture, which predates the Chinese systems • Imparts teachings from the female tradition and explores the transformative powers of the magico-sexual elixirs they produce Bee shamanism may well be the most ancient and enigmatic branch of shamanism. It exists throughout the world--wherever in fact the honeybee exists. Its medicinal tools--such as honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly--are now in common usage, and even the origins of Chinese acupuncture can be traced back to the ancient practice of applying bee stings to the body’s meridians. In this authoritative ethnography and spiritual memoir, Simon Buxton, an elder of the Path of Pollen, reveals for the first time the richness of this tradition: its subtle intelligence; its sights, sounds, and smells; and its unique ceremonies, which until now have been known only to initiates. Buxton unknowingly took his first steps on the Path of Pollen at age nine, when a neighbor--an Austrian bee shaman--cured him of a near-fatal bout of encephalitis. This early contact prepared him for his later meeting with an elder of the tradition who took him on as an apprentice. Following an intense initiation that opened him to the mysteries of the hive mind, Buxton learned over the next 13 years the practices, rituals, and tools of bee shamanism. He experienced the healing and spiritual powers of honey and other bee products, including the “flying ointment” once used by medieval witches, as well as ritual initiations with the female members of the tradition--the Mellisae--and the application of magico-sexual “nektars” that promote longevity and ecstasy. The Shamanic Way of the Bee is a rare view into the secret wisdom of this age-old tradition.

Author : R. Stacey Laforme
Publisher : Every River Poems
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1988824052

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Living in the Tall Grass by R. Stacey Laforme Pdf

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to let Canadians see through the eyes of Indigenous people. Chief Laforme's universal message is, "We should not have to change to fit into society the world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness."

Author : David Jay Bercuson,J. L. Granatstein,William Robert Young
Publisher : Toronto, Ont. : Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011828004

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Sacred Trust? by David Jay Bercuson,J. L. Granatstein,William Robert Young Pdf

Author : Lee W. Brainard
Publisher : Lee W Brainard
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798985322330

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The Glorious Salvation Machine by Lee W. Brainard Pdf

In a spirit of sanctified humor, this satire skewers the error of the easy-believe gospel and defends the biblical truth that Christians will be changed by the Holy Spirit that indwells and empowers them. Take a rough-n-tumble journey with Peregrinus (Latin for pilgrim) as he, with the help of his mentor Plowman, battles with the errors thrown at him by the likes of such characters as Willy "Rush" Forward, Strawberry Nostrum, Reverend Quacksalver, and Jumping Jack Hallelujah.

Author : Li Ying-Chang
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761989986

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Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao by Li Ying-Chang Pdf

Taoists and non-Taoists alike consider Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao, written by the twelfth-century sage Li Ying-Chang, an essential guide to living. Presenting foundational teaching and practices of the Action and Karma school of Taoism, it is replete with stories illustrating the teachings and an introductory essay that discusses the more esoteric meanings of the passages. Told with clarity and depth, these seminal Taoist teachings offer guidance on leading a balanced, healthy life. Sponsored by the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism