The Divine And The Demonic

Author : Hsiao-wen Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Celibacy
ISBN : 0295748311

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Divine, Demonic, and Disordered by Hsiao-wen Cheng Pdf

"A variety of Chinese writings-medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes-from the Song period (960-1279) depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these incomprehensible women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women's bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity. In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of "manless women," many of which depict women who suffered from "enchantment disorder" or who engaged in "intercourse with ghosts"-conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Through her questioning of conventional binary gender analyses and heteronormative assumptions, she shifts attention away from women's reproductive bodies and familial roles and offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women's behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy"--

Author : Dr Graham Dwyer,Graham Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134431106

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The Divine and the Demonic by Dr Graham Dwyer,Graham Dwyer Pdf

"This book is also a wider study of the anthropology of South Asia, particularly medical anthropology and Indian ethnomedicine. The religious themes of Hindu priests and curers, popular Hinduism and pilgrimage are also discussed."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Belinda Crerar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714151300

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Feminine Power by Belinda Crerar Pdf

An exciting, wide-ranging exploration of the power and diversity of female figures of worship in world cultures and belief systems, from the ancient world to today.

Author : Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429750946

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Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine by Christopher C. H. Cook Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.

Author : Richard von Glahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520928770

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The Sinister Way by Richard von Glahn Pdf

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion—as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

Author : Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501702174

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Discerning Spirits by Nancy Mandeville Caciola Pdf

Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.

Author : Jeff Watt
Publisher : Spindrift Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1932476083

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Demonic divine by Jeff Watt Pdf

Author : Dr Graham Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134431090

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The Divine and the Demonic by Dr Graham Dwyer Pdf

Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches. The study augments and extends the existing scholarship on a range of issues, including inter alia beliefs about spirit possession, sorcery, witchcraft and the evil eye. The themes of ritual practice, especially exorcism or healing ceremonies, Hindu priests and curers, popular Hinduism and pilgrimage are discussed, and the anthropology of South Asia is explored with an emphasis on medical anthropology and Indian ethnomedicine. At a theoretical level, the book sharply contrasts with much of the literature on spirit possession or on supernatural affliction and its treatment, as the author's phenomenological orientation involves movement away from psychological or psychiatric paradigms as well as from other forms of Western rationalism that have tended to dominate scholarly work. The book thus offers fresh insights, both in terms of understanding supernatural malaise and its treatment, and in terms of the application of the approach the author engages.

Author : Daniel Day Williams,Stacy A. Evans
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800624319

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The Demonic and the Divine by Daniel Day Williams,Stacy A. Evans Pdf

Author : Raphael Cushnir
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098362225

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Surviving the Divine by Raphael Cushnir Pdf

When Raphael Cushnir's marriage fell apart, he decided to stop running away from the pain and embrace it. This led to an unintended explosion of Kundalini energy, as well as a spiritual awakening. Yet his awakening was anything but typical. At first it was chaotic, terrifying, and even sometimes demonic. Over the ensuing five years, mostly on his own, Cushnir had to navigate this confounding terrain along with the ordinary challenges of daily life. Through vivid journal entries from that time, as well as commentary afforded by three decades of subsequent reflection, he offers a searingly intimate portrait of experiences usually relegated to secrecy. He's sharing this story now, in his role as spiritual teacher and emotional intelligence facilitator, to support the growing numbers of those who struggle with unconventional openings, and also to shed new light on the more perilous parts of the perennial mystic path.

Author : Nathaniel Berman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004386198

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Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar by Nathaniel Berman Pdf

Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar offers a new interpretation of the Kabbalistic “Other Side,” exploring the intimacies and antagonisms of divine and demonic, and showing how the Zoharic literature contributes to thinking about alterity generally.

Author : Belinda Crerar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 1921953519

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Feminine Power by Belinda Crerar Pdf

"The representation of feminine power in world religion and mythology has played -- and continues to play -- an important role in shaping global cultural attitudes towards women and worship. This book brings together a varied range of material from six continents, including ancient sculpture, sacred artefacts and contemporary art, to explore the diversity of ways in which femininity has been perceived within spiritual traditions across the globe, from the ancient world to today." -- Back cover.

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780999874707

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The American Trajectory by David Ray Griffin Pdf

In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. "Supported by extensive research, Griffin thoroughly debunks the myth of an American Empire as a benign, exceptionalist, divinely ordained historical agent. Instead of Manifest Destiny, what reality- based Griffin charters is the ‘malign’ ways of US foreign policy since the 19th century; a trajectory founded by slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples and then imperially expanded, non-stop. ‘Malign’ happens to be a term currently very much in vogue across the Beltway—but always to designate US competitors Russia and China. Griffin consistently challenges Beltway gospel, demonstrating that if the US had not entered WWI, there may have been no WWII. He unmasks the lies surrounding the true story of the Pearl Harbor attacks. He asks: If the US was really guided by God, how could it ‘choose’ to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, knowing that ‘the atomic bombs were not necessary to end the war?’ Griffin also shows how the Cold War was actually conceptualized several years before the 1950 National Security Council paper 68 (NSC- 68). He revisits the origins of irrational hatred of Iran; the demonization of Cuba; the lies surrounding the Vietnam debacle; the false flags across Europe via Operation Gladio; the destruction of Yugoslavia; the decades-long evisceration of Iraq; and the ramifications of the Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine. This sharp, concise history of the American Empire ultimately demonstrates, in Griffin’s analysis, the ‘fraud’ of endorsing self- praising American Exceptionalism. A must read.” —Pepe Escobar, Asia Times/Hong Kong;

Author : Graham Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134431058

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The Divine and the Demonic by Graham Dwyer Pdf

Focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches.

Author : Herman Pleij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0231130236

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Colors Demonic and Divine by Herman Pleij Pdf

Including a wealth of vivid detail and ranging over theology, poetry, painting, heraldry, fashion, and daily life, this book elucidates the attitudes toward color in medieval times and the effect these attitudes still have on modern society.