Spirited Things

Author : Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226122939

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Spirited Things by Paul Christopher Johnson Pdf

The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things—including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph—as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.

Author : Kartik Nair
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Artists' materials
ISBN : 9780520392274

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Seeing Things by Kartik Nair Pdf

"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--

Author : Rüdiger Bittner,Professor of Philosophy Rudiger Bittner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195143645

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Doing Things for Reasons by Rüdiger Bittner,Professor of Philosophy Rudiger Bittner Pdf

People do things for reasons, but what are reasons and how are they related to the resulting actions? Bittner explores this question and proposes an answer: a reason is a response to that state of affairs.

Author : Lilah Baker
Publisher : Author House
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496958112

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Spirited Me by Lilah Baker Pdf

Boris could not resist anymore. He said, Enough already, ? then reached out and pulled Cecile into his arms. She held on to him, and he could feel her heart beating erratically in her chest, as was his. God, she felt good in his arms. He smiled down at her, ignoring her coworkers, whose mouths were gaped open in surprise. Since the day she had told him about her tragedy, he realized how much he wanted to hold her in his arms and comfort her, how much she had come to mean to him. The last time they had ran into each other in the hallway and he had stood towering over her and she had listened to him so intently, she seemed oblivious to all the others as they passed. He had leaned down so closely to her and he wanted to kiss her so badly it ached. He knew she had felt it too. Cecile was shocked that he would be so bold! And she loved it. She felt bereft when the elevator opened and he released her. One of her male coworkers said, ?I believe that he just staked his clam, Cecile.?

Author : Danielle Van de Velde
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982294601

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Spirited by Danielle Van de Velde Pdf

The state of today’s modern world is triggering a deep, unavoidable desire to regain central balance within the hearts of many. Every day, we’re challenged with the questions: Who am I in this current world? What do I stand for? What is my purpose within it all? Many are seeking to understand our true natures and our purposes and we’re trying to embody that truth. Author Danielle Van de Velde is one of those people searching for answers. In Spirited, she shares her insights, observations and practices from her many years of teaching meditation and holding thousands of intuitive healing sessions. She speaks to those who are ready to claim their own natural spirituality, offering an upload of different perspectives for modern spirited living—ones that open access to our innate spiritual design and how to work with it. Spirited address three facets: • spirit self: an expanded perspective on the visible and invisible aspects of the self; • spirit dynamics: an expanded perspective on the nature of life and our engagement within it; and • spirit skills: an expanded perspective on meditation and working with your energy body. Van de Velde reframes meditation as an intentional practice to transform from reactive, to responsive, to expansive,and ultimately to creative living. She helps you remember who and what you really are, to live in active cohesion and cocreation with life and to operate creatively and intuitively in a state of flow. To remember this, is when we heal and come back to our true nature and design. This is being spirited.

Author : James Parton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : HARVARD:HWM39S

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Captains of Industry, Or, Men of Business who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton Pdf

Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557234769

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Buddha's Dharma As I Understand It by Christopher Johnson Pdf

A modern perspective on the Buddha's teachings, and the path to enlightenment.

Author : Z. L. Ziemer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440163012

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Meet Me in Winona by Z. L. Ziemer Pdf

In the late 1800s, the bright sun shining on upper Michigan's Copper Country reflects all the way to Finland. It welcomes impoverished Finlander Matt Aho to a flourishing life in the small town of Winona. He makes his way to America before the turn of the century, eager to create a new home for his wife and children. Years later, when Matt finally summons his family to join him, his daughter, Juliana, must leave behind the man she loves to take the long journey across the sea. For Juliana, her relationship with Frans Lammi defines and shapes her future, and she cannot imagine life without him. Being apart brings great pain to them both, but Frans resolves to join Juliana as soon as he possibly can. When that great day comes, Juliana and Frans embrace their future together in this amazing country, marry, and start a family. Frans works in the copper mines, a difficult and deadly occupation, while Juliana keeps their home and gives birth to eight children. Throughout all the hardships and struggles, their deep love sustains them, creating a treasured legacy for their children. A moving testament to the challenges faced by immigrants and filled with the history of upper Michigan, Meet Me in Winona is also a touching love story filled with hope and courage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10498635

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Saturday Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112109672086

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Strauss,Neil Howe
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767900461

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The Fourth Turning by William Strauss,Neil Howe Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Author : Thomas Parkison Warne
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781098058913

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This House by Thomas Parkison Warne Pdf

Thomas Parkison Warne lifeaEUR(tm)s work was to write this book. When he was twenty-one years old, he had an experience. aEURoeGently, quietly, I know not when it came, the moment, nor when it departedaEUR|its overshadowing. The impression I had received remained with me, as clay under a seal (Job 38:14). This happening, the experience, the knowing of it, long it was with me. The course of the righteous is like morning light, growing brighter till it is broad day. That which I had to offer was the only thing I had. It represented the only thing I had. It represented the only thing wanted to do. I would go as far as I could. I would work it out as best I could. Death would be the only thing that would stop my effort and end my hope of doing it. My thought was that I had something. I believed that.aEUR aEURoeThou hast beset me behind and before and laid thine hand upon meaEUR (Psalm 139:5). aEURoeI had one thing, the key to all this. I believed that what I had received came from God. It had come upon me. What I could see, its appealaEUR"the faith I hadaEUR"I was taken up with it and filled with the doing of it.aEUR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211419309

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Saint Pauls by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colleen Jiron, PhD
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781489712158

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Living the Real Tree of Life by Colleen Jiron, PhD Pdf

Despite our best efforts and regardless of our spiritual paths and beliefs, we all find ourselves confronted moment-to-moment with a mind-boggling array of life demands and challenges. In Living the Real Tree of Life, Dr. Jiron offers strategies and tools for help in navigating this dance on spinning logs in churning rapids that can be used almost anywhere, anytime. Chapters are presented in brief, essay format, for ease of reading and application. Topics are sequenced like a tree, beginning with the Roots, such as Bodacious Breathing and Building Focus, then moving on to Branches and Foliage, the universal challenges of managing conflict and adversity, with the Canopy chapters addressing deeper discussions of personal and spiritual growth. Appendices include Italicized Points to Ponder, Joyful or Useful Self-Talk, and a Glossary of Terms. With this book, Dr. Jiron presents a grass roots manual grounded in the bedrock of perennial teachings and applied to contemporary issues. These ideas are based on extensive study/practice and professional experience, yielding a unique blend of common sense and the spiritually sublime, and are intended to be helpful for people from all walks of life.

Author : William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026174661

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The Perfect Horse; how to Know Him ... With an Introduction by H. W. Beecher; and a Treatise on Agriculture and the Horse, by G. B. Loring. Containing Illustrations, Etc by William Henry Harrison MURRAY Pdf