The Abyss Or Life Is Simple

Author : Courtney Bender,Jeremy Biles,Liane Carlson,Joshua Dubler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226821337

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The Abyss or Life Is Simple by Courtney Bender,Jeremy Biles,Liane Carlson,Joshua Dubler Pdf

An absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard’s writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the novel presents an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a writer with the same name as the author, in a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted. In 2015, a group of scholars began meeting to discuss the peculiarly religious qualities of My Struggle. Some were interested in Knausgaard’s attention to explicitly religious subjects and artworks, others to what they saw as more diffuse attention to the religiousness of contemporary life. The group wondered what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, and about themselves. The Abyss or Life Is Simple is the culmination of this collective endeavor—a collection of interlocking essays on ritual, beauty, and the end of the world.

Author : Courtney Bender,Jeremy Biles,Liane Carlson,Joshua Dubler,Hannah C. Garvey,M. Cooper Harriss,Winnifred Fallers Sullivan,Erik Thorstensen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226821344

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The Abyss Or Life Is Simple by Courtney Bender,Jeremy Biles,Liane Carlson,Joshua Dubler,Hannah C. Garvey,M. Cooper Harriss,Winnifred Fallers Sullivan,Erik Thorstensen Pdf

"Min Kamp-or My Struggle in English-is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between 2009 and 2011, the year-by-year translation into English of the novels became something of a slow-gathering storm. Ambiguously figured as autobiographical by some, the six volumes present an absorbing first-person narrative of the life of a Norwegian writer, an Everyman of sorts, one with the same name as the author. In its expansiveness, textures, and anti-romanticism, Knausgaard's is a world at once fully disillusioned and thoroughly enchanted. In 2015 a small group of scholars, all admirers of Knausgaard's work, began meeting to discuss the peculiarly "religious" qualities of My Struggle and other writings. Some were interested in Knausgaard's attention to religious topics, his uses of religious histories, objects, and artworks, while others were curious about his capacity to engage various religious moods in ways that were not critical, suspicious, or celebratory. The group wanted to know, in part, what reading these textures of religion in these volumes might say about our times, about writing, about themselves. The Abyss or Life is Simple is the culmination of this collective endeavor-a remarkable collection of interlocking essays on everything from ritual, beauty, writing, and morality to divine plans for the end of the world"--

Author : B. L. Molyneaux
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351053082

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Cultural Life at the Abyss by B. L. Molyneaux Pdf

Ideology dominates social research, encouraged by rejections of nature and the past, and often ignores the direct experience of actual people. This archaeological study takes a different approach, grounding concepts of culture, landscape and art in ecological relations that embrace all of life. An ecological approach considers that life exists in the interactions of people with the environment surrounding them. This theoretical grounding therefore supports research at a local scale and validates the analysis of individual effort. The case studies explore individual perception, action and expression in a startlingly diverse set of objects and features from the past: natural and constructed monuments, ancient and recent rock paintings, petroglyphs, fresco paintings and impressionist landscape art. While traditional cultural approaches render ordinary people as proxies, these individuals, as members of families and communities, do the actual work of society, using their senses, bodies and minds. The analysis here therefore turns away from traditional speculations about the meanings of cultural things to look for evidence of the personal choices of travelers, inhabitants, pilgrims and artists as they acted, and attempt to gain insights from these decisions about the past as lived. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in culture and society who may be restless in theatres of discourse dominated by self-affirming narratives, who wish to consider the fields of possibility in an environmental perspective that integrates culture with nature and humans with other beings in a singular, physical world.

Author : Courtney Bender,Wendy Cadge,Peggy Levitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199938643

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Religion on the Edge by Courtney Bender,Wendy Cadge,Peggy Levitt Pdf

The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the essays reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non-religious spaces and show how, by attending to these intellectual blindspots, we can understand aspects of identity, modernity, and institutional life that have long been obscured. Religion on the Edge addresses a number of critical questions: What is revealed about the self, pluralism, or modernity when we look outside the U.S. or outside Christian settings? What do we learn about how and where the religious is actually at work and what its role is when we unpack the assumptions about it embedded in the categories we use? Religion on the Edge offers groundbreaking new methodologies and models, bringing to light conceptual lacunae, re-centering what is unsettled by their use, and inviting a significant reordering of long-accepted political and economic hierarchies. The book shows how social scientists across the disciplines can engage with the sociology of religion. By challenging many of its long-standing empirical and analytic tendencies, the contributors to this volume show how their work informs and is informed by debates in other fields and the analytical purchase gained by bringing these many conversations together. Religion on the Edge will be a crucial resource for any scholar seeking to understand our post-modern, post-secular world.

Author : Kirsten Brydum,Franklin Udall Lindsay
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781608444700

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We're All in This Together by Kirsten Brydum,Franklin Udall Lindsay Pdf

Brave, bighearted... An absolutely absorbing book of challenging power, a story of almost unbearable tensions. A modern life played out against the chaos of "me" and the divine order of "we." Marie Dadisman The observations made in this work regarding the social impact of our current social strategies are poignant observations that beckon the reader to evaluate whether, or not, they wish to embrace and support our current paradigms for social order.

Author : Joanne Maguire Robinson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791490693

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Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls by Joanne Maguire Robinson Pdf

An in-depth examination of the work of this important medieval woman mystic.

Author : Vahé Tachjian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785334955

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Daily Life in the Abyss by Vahé Tachjian Pdf

Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.

Author : Boni Oian CH CART
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452538648

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Claim Your Life by Boni Oian CH CART Pdf

Have you ever wondered if theres a part of you working against yourself? Your subconscious beliefs have manifested every relationship and material possession in your life. Isnt it time for you to be in charge of your beliefs? Isnt it time for you to pick what you want in your life? So what do you want? The ability to choose only comes when you know the choices. Are you ready to turn your saboteur into an ally? Would you like better relationships, a better career, more love, more money? Are you ready to unlock your hidden power? Claim your Life will help systematically reveal your subconscious beliefs, uncovering them so they can be uprooted and replaced with healthy beliefs that empower you and support the changes you seek. This process will put you in the power seat of your life, ushering you into the ideal life you deserve. We are all just one step away from feeling empowered. Take that step now.

Author : Milton Wainwright,Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811266270

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Life Comes From Space: The Decisive Evidence by Milton Wainwright,Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe Pdf

With the rapid growth of new evidence from astronomy, space science and biology that supports the theory of life as a cosmic rather than terrestrial phenomenon, this book discusses a set of crucial data and pictures showing that life is still arriving at our planet. Although it could spark controversy among the most hardened sceptics this book will have an important role in shaping future science in this area.

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134859573

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The Life and Times of Post-Modernity by Keith Tester Pdf

'Postmodernity' is often claimed as a great transformation in society and culture. But is it? In this book Keith Tester casts a cautious eye on such grandiose claims. Tester draws on a series of themes and stories from European sociology and literature to show that many of the great statements from 'postmodernity' are misplaced. 'Postmodernity' is not the harbinger or expression of a new world. It is a reflection of the unresolved paradoxes and possibilities of modernity. The author establishes a clearly expressed and stimulating model of modernity to demonstrate the stakes and consequences of 'postmodernity'. This book uses a wealth of sources which are usually denigrated or ignored in the debates on 'postmodernity'. As such it sheds new light on old claims. But it never fails to acknowledge the profound insights of sociologists and other authors. The Life and Times of Post-Modernity is a continuation of the themes which Tester raised in his earlier books with Routledge, The Two Sovereigns and Civil Society .

Author : D. Micah Hester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139483803

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End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making by D. Micah Hester Pdf

Every one of us will die, and the processes we go through will be our own - unique to our own experiences and life stories. End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death. D. Micah Hester takes seriously the complexities of experiences and argues that when making end-of-life decisions, healthcare providers ought to pay close attention to the narratives of patients and the communities they inhabit so that their dying processes embody their life stories. He discusses three types of end-of-life patient populations - adults with decision-making capacity, adults without capacity, and children (with a strong focus on infants) - to show the implications of pragmatic empiricism and the scope of decision making at the end of life for different types of patients.

Author : Dr. David Nozick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475914393

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Life’S Lessons by Dr. David Nozick Pdf

No life is perfect. It consist of challenges and struggles that define identity and purpose. In Life's Lessons, author David Nozick uses the stories of his life to educate others in the art of survival and in being tru to their core identity. Life's Lessons contains highlights of both Nozick's personal life and his professional life as a clinical psychologist with a carrer spanning thirty-nine years. Focusing on personal growth, this memoir includes the many lessons he learned as a result of personal failures and mistakes during his lifetime. He tells of growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;working as a psychologist; being a parent to three sons; experiencing the painful breakdown of his marriage; living in the world of a single man; and travelling the world. Personal and candid, Life's Lessons offers a unique perspective of inner thoughts, feelings and values of a clinical psychologist battling his own inner demons. As a result of his own treatment and self-analysis, Nozick formulates a series of life's lessons that benefit any person brave enough to examine the purpose and meaning of their life.

Author : Dr Jol
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781387866205

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God Made F'n Easy by Dr Jol Pdf

We all know that, to understand the Bible fully, takes scholars years and years of study, research, and hermeneutics (the science and art of Biblical interpretation). Herewith, what I've attempted to do, and I pray that the endeavor comes across successfully, is to select key ideas that God has given us in his Word and show what they mean to me and what they have done in my life. If the Bible contains hidden messages can we be blamed for not finding them? Can our sins be held against us if we fail to wrongly interpret the secrets, mysteries, and covert communications given to us by God? But then again, our civil laws do just that; ignorance is no excuse.

Author : Charles Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : PSU:000026087726

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The Simple Life by Charles Wagner Pdf

Author : Lynne Leahy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780595763696

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SOUL SURVIVAL IN CORPORATE AMERICA by Lynne Leahy Pdf

Divine Destiny Is A Path Not A Place Soul Survival invites you to take a fresh look at corporate culture and your everyday work life. Author Lynne Leahy has demonstrated the power of Soul Survival principles for 30 years. “I was as low as a human being can go; a welfare mom, broke, sick, depressed, uneducated, addicted to drugs, filled with fear, hopeless and helpless.” Now I am President/CEO of a successful company, a devoted mother, and grandmother. I love and am loved by a multitude of friends. I live most days filled with peace, joy, and a sense of divine purpose. What Amazon readers say about Soul Survival in Corporate America: - “readers will learn ways to integrate their work life with their personal values” - “provided me with peace and confirmation that I am on the right path with my personal beliefs in corporate work world” - “principles based on the author's real life work experiences told through entertaining stories with amazing honesty” Since the first publication of Soul Survival in 2004 Lynne sold her corporation for several million dollars and has written a new workbook “Fearless Vision Project” to help others visualize and achieve their dreams. www.fearlessvisionproject.com