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The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage

Author : Chul Woo Son
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625641601

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The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage by Chul Woo Son Pdf

The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans. With hierarchy of age, social status, and gender-defined roles taking primacy over equality and justice, self-sacrifice becomes instrumental in maintaining family and social relationships. Unfortunately, in family relationships, sacrifice has more to do with submission and endurance than it does with sacrificial service that is redemptive and mutually beneficial. When self-sacrifice carries hidden motives--coercive responsibility, obligation, shame, guilt, or one's reputation--that "self-sacrifice" is not self-giving, neither serving nor being of mutual benefit. In this context, it is important to explore the attitudes and motives of self-sacrifice in Korean American families. In unlocking and exploring the dynamics of the theology and practice of self-sacrifice for Korean Americans, this book explores cultural virtues, marital relationships, gender inequality, domestic violence, and their theological implications. The author introduces a new approach and model with a proposal for a healthier and a more judicious understanding of self-sacrifice for Korean American family relationships. The element of "equal regard" as pertaining to self-sacrifice offers Korean Americans a refreshing hope in the perspective of familial relationships and a liberating casting-off of culturally and religiously imposed burdens. The Korean American family ought to be grounded on a love ethic of equal regard and place its value on mutuality, self-sacrifice, and individual fulfillment. When this is done, sacrificial love can be understood as justly appropriated for both husbands and wives, males and females, and parents and children. Thus, Christian teaching and theology may deliver a more transparent message of true agape and its liberating effects for the marginalized, especially women and children.

U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation

Author : Kelly Denton-Borhaug
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545224

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U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation by Kelly Denton-Borhaug Pdf

The military-industrial complex in the United States has grown exponentially in recent decades, yet the realities of war remain invisible to most Americans. The U.S has created a culture in which sacrificial rhetoric is the norm when dealing in war. This culture has been enabled because popular American Christian understandings of redemption rely so heavily on the sacrificial. 'U.S War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation' explores how the concept of Christian redemption has been manipulated to create a mentality of "necessary sacrifice". The study reveals the links between Christian notions of salvation and sacrifice and the aims of the military-industrial complex.

Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India

Author : Aditi Mitra
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739138533

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Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India by Aditi Mitra Pdf

This ethnographic study looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes in Kolkata, India, who work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower women from all classes of society.

Blood Sacrifice and the Nation

Author : Carolyn Marvin,David W. Ingle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521626099

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Blood Sacrifice and the Nation by Carolyn Marvin,David W. Ingle Pdf

A groundbreaking study of American patriotism and the symbolic power of the national flag.

Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall

Author : Kristin Ann Hass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520274112

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Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall by Kristin Ann Hass Pdf

For the city’s first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC’s symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty years, five significant war memorials have been built on, or very nearly on, the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII, and the National World War II Memorial have not only transformed the physical space of the Mall but have also dramatically rewritten ideas about U.S. nationalism expressed there. In Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, Kristin Ann Hass examines this war memorial boom, the debates about war and race and gender and patriotism that shaped the memorials, and the new narratives about the nature of American citizenship that they spawned. Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall explores the meanings we have made in exchange for the lives of our soldiers and asks if we have made good on our enormous responsibility to them.

Sacrifice in Religious Experience

Author : Albert I. Baumgarten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004124837

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Sacrifice in Religious Experience by Albert I. Baumgarten Pdf

The volume consists of collected papers from Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences examining (1) the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective and (2) alternatives to sacrifice.

Empire of Sacrifice

Author : Jon Pahl
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814768952

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Empire of Sacrifice by Jon Pahl Pdf

It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since September 11, 2001, U.S. scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows U.S. policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country's history. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don't always appear to be “religious” at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history and focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush's Baghdad.

Plaza of Sacrifices

Author : Elaine Carey
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0826335454

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Plaza of Sacrifices by Elaine Carey Pdf

On October 2, 1968, up to 700 students were killed by government authorities while protesting in Mexico City - many of them women. This analysis of the role of women in the protest movement shows how the events of 1968 shaped modern Mexican society.

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature

Author : Alex Houen,Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198806516

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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature by Alex Houen,Jan-Melissa Schramm Pdf

This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice that the contributors discuss.

A Great Sacrifice

Author : James G. Mendez
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823282524

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A Great Sacrifice by James G. Mendez Pdf

A Great Sacrifice is an in-depth analysis of the effects of the Civil War on northern black families carried out using letters from northern black women—mothers, wives, sisters, and female family friends—addressed to a number of Union military officials. Collectively, the letters give a voice to the black family members left on the northern homefront. Through their explanations and requests, readers obtain a greater apprehension of the struggles African American families faced during the war, and their conditions as the war progressed. The original letters that were received by government agencies, as well as many of the copies of the letters sent in response, are held by the National Archives in Washington, D.C. This study is unique because it examines the effects of the war specifically on northern black families. Most other studies on African Americans during the Civil War focused almost exclusively on the soldiers.

Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph

Author : Frances Harper
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807062332

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Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph by Frances Harper Pdf

Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.

Between Sacrifice and Desire

Author : Ashley Pettus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135945503

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Between Sacrifice and Desire by Ashley Pettus Pdf

This title explores the role of women in the politics of national identity in Vietnam. Drawing on diverse primary resources--including state news media, government contests, tabloid journalism, and extensive interviews--the author examines the intimate connection between notions of Vietnamese femininity and the cultural quandaries of modernity in post-colonial Vietnam. The book covers the socialist and market reform periods (from the 1950s through the 1990s) and examines women's central place--as both symbols and disciplined subjects--in Vietnam's socialist modernization and ongoing capitalist transition.

Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253113911

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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by Kay Almere Read Pdf

This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

A Spirit of Sacrifice

Author : Aaron Noble,Keith Swaney,Vicki Weiss
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438467788

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A Spirit of Sacrifice by Aaron Noble,Keith Swaney,Vicki Weiss Pdf

Focuses on the posters of World War I as a medium to interpret the tremendous role played by New York State and its citizens in the war effort.

The Science of Sacrifice

Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400822478

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The Science of Sacrifice by Susan L. Mizruchi Pdf

From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.