The Neighborhood Of Gods

Author : William Elison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780226494906

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The Neighborhood of Gods by William Elison Pdf

There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination--as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighborhood streets are indeed shared with local gods and guardian spirits. In The Neighborhood of Gods, William Elison examines the link between territory and divinity in India's most self-consciously modern city. In this densely settled environment, space is scarce, and anxiety about housing is pervasive. Consecrating space--first with impromptu displays and then, eventually, with full-blown temples and official recognition--is one way of staking a claim. But how can a marginalized community make its gods visible, and therefore powerful, in the eyes of others? The Neighborhood of Gods explores this question, bringing an ethnographic lens to a range of visual and spatial practices: from the shrine construction that encroaches on downtown streets, to the "tribal art" practices of an indigenous group facing displacement, to the work of image production at two Bollywood film studios. A pioneering ethnography, this book offers a creative intervention in debates on postcolonial citizenship, urban geography, and visuality in the religions of India.

Author : Scott Roley,James Isaac Elliott
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0830832246

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God's Neighborhood by Scott Roley,James Isaac Elliott Pdf

Roley was once a rising star in the contemporary Christian music scene, but then he felt called to racial reconciliation and moved to a disadvantaged neighborhood where he embodies the ideals that are needed to forge a just society.

Author : V. Vycinas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401033596

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Earth and Gods by V. Vycinas Pdf

Earth and Gods is an attempt to introduce the reader to Heidegger's fully developed philosophy. The title Earth and Gods gives an im pression of not being a general study of Heidegger's philosophy. However, this is not true - the earth and the gods are fundamental ontological symbols of his fully developed philosophy, namely, his third and final phase of thought. This phase repeats the problems of both preceding phases in a fuller and more developed manner; hence, it implies them. The two preceding phases are the phase of Dasein and the phase of Being. These two phases are a natural flow of fundamental problems which reach their final formation and development in the phase of earth and gods. Dasein (the first phase) leads to Being, and Being (the second phase) bursts into fundamental ontological powers of Being (Seinsmiichte) which are earth and sky, gods and mortals (the third phase). Since earth is unthinkable without sky and since gods are gods in the world of mortals - of men, the title Earth and Gods is an abbreviation of these four fundamental powers of Being. Hence, an investigation of earth and gods is an attempt to present Heidegger's philosophy as a whole. Such a presentation provides the reader with the background necessary for a more adequate and efficient understanding of the writings of Heidegger himself. Thus, Earth and Gods may rightly be considered an introduction to Hei degger's philosophy.

Author : Lucinda Allen Mosher
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596270160

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Faith in the Neighborhood - Praying by Lucinda Allen Mosher Pdf

Praying is the second in a series of books that offer Christians a new way of understanding what it means to live and worship among America's many faiths, and introduces them to the religions that make up the American neighborhood. Praying will explore public, family, and individual worship in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Baha'i, Zoroastrianism, American indigenous spiritualities, Chinese spiritualities (Confucianism, Taoism), Shinto, and Afro-Caribbean religions. Praying answers and discusses questions such as these: How does your religion understand/measure the passage of time: daily, weekly, annually, over the course of a lifetime? What is the vocabulary of ritual and practice in your religion? (e.g., worship, prayer, meditation, pilgrimage, feasting and fasting) Is there a distinction between public and private/individual worship/practice in your religion? What are this religion's most distinctive practices? What makes them so significant? Praying includes a quick guide to each religion, a glossary, and recommended reading.

Author : Karina Kreminski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0998917729

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Urban Spirituality by Karina Kreminski Pdf

Do we have a positive theology of the city so that an urban spirituality can emerge from this place? We have for too long focused on quick fixes, pop up churches, and strategic solutions which have left us malnourished and emaciated, yet bloated from our over-consumption of these unsatisfying approaches. Spiritual formation is something that we need to pay closer attention to today. How do we live this kind of holy life in the city?

Author : Sarah Thal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226794211

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Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods by Sarah Thal Pdf

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Author : Simon Carey Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Community life
ISBN : 0908284632

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God Next Door by Simon Carey Holt Pdf

WINNER AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008. What if God lived next door? Would you recognise him, talk to him at the fence or avoid catching his eye? Simon Carey Holt has uncovered the spiritual possibilities of our urban and suburban neighbourhoods. Simon Carey Holt is Lecturer in Spirituality at Whitley College (University of Melbourne & Melbourne College of Divinity).

Author : Justus Doolittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : China
ISBN : OSU:32435055631857

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Social Life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle Pdf

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506498249

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The Emancipation of God by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

Understanding the gospel as emancipation has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpretation. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipation of God from our attempts to control, the emancipation of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipation of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy. This volume divides into three parts: "The Emancipation of God," "The Emancipation of the Church," and "The Emancipation of the Neighborhood." What the three parts hold in common is the kingdom of God. In each chapter, Brueggemann grinds away at biblical texts that have been muffled, silenced, and disabled to free the text from its cultural entrapments so that that the liberated text can speak for an emancipated God and a liberated church to free the world.

Author : The Gods & Earths Who Were There!
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493189977

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The True History of Allah and His 5% by The Gods & Earths Who Were There! Pdf

This book is based on the true history of Allah "the Father" and His great Nation of Gods and Earths known as the Five Percenters. This is the greatest story that was never told by the Gods and the Earths during their younger years with Allah "the Father" from the early 1960s up until the time of his assassination on June 13, 1969. This was a time of struggle for the Black Man, Woman, and Child (the Universal Family). This was the time of "the Big Five", who were: Allah "the Father", who brought about the Nation of Gods and Earths known as the Five Percenters; the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who was the last and greatest messenger of Allah, also the leader and teacher of the Black Muslims; Malcolm X of the new arrival; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader; and the Black Panther Party on the East and West coasts. These five groups were called the Big Five, because they had the attention of every Black Man, Woman, and Child in the wilderness of North America and other parts of our planet. There was a host of other Black groups as well. This was a time when the Five Percenter's teachings were being taught/spoken so plain and simple that even a child could understand. Black people were on the rise, and it was a time for a change—for Black Man, Woman, and Child to take their place on earth. Peace!

Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801885361

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Treatise on the Gods by H. L. Mencken Pdf

Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.

Author : Thurman C. Petty,Thurman C. Petty, Jr.
Publisher : Autumn House Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Babylonia
ISBN : 9780812704440

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Gate of the Gods by Thurman C. Petty,Thurman C. Petty, Jr. Pdf

Flushed with victory, the young Babylonian prince surveyed the battleground where his army had defeated the Egyptians. In the distance a division of elite soldiers rapidly pursued the fleeing survivors. He mourned the loss of so many brave warriors, but quickly focused on his questto expand Babylons control of world trade. Egypt was only one of the nations to be conquered; before long Lebanon, Phoenicia, Syria, and Judah would feel the edge of Babylonian swords. Soon he, Nebuchadnezzar, would be king, and all the world would pay homage to him

Author : Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195156638

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Diaspora of the Gods by Joanne Punzo Waghorne Pdf

Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with many religious values in common with their professional counterparts in America or Europe. Just as so many modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and mosques, contemporary Hindus attend to the construction and maintenance of their religious institutions wherever their work and life takes them. In Diaspora of the Gods, Joanne Punzo Waghorne traces the changing religious sensibilities of the Hindu middle class. Waghorne leads her readers on a journey through the world of the new Hindu middle-class, focusing on their efforts to build and support places of worship. She invites the reader into the neighborhoods of Chennai to view often-innovative new and renovated temples constructed in a sometimes seemingly incongruous urban environment. Her journey, however, does not end there. The cousins and brothers--literal and figurative--of temple patrons and devotees in Chennai are constructing divine houses abroad that are remaking the religious panorama of the United Kingdom and the United States. Waghorne leads us into the London neighborhood of Tooting, climbing upstairs in a former warehouse to see a Goddess temple constructed from plywood painted in trompe l'oeuil to create all of the features of a proper temple. Elsewhere in London, we meet the God Murugan in an almost hidden temple immured within the stone shell of a former Church and another Goddess whose temple is tucked inside a lovely white church on a quiet street. In Washington, a multiplicity of Gods shares a glorious white temple in an otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhood. Waghorne offers detailed comparisons of these temples, and interviews temple priests, devotees, and patrons. In the process, she illuminates the interrelationships between ritual worship and religious edifices, the rise of the modern world economy, and the ascendancy of the great middle class. This is the first comprehensive portrait of Hinduism as lived today by so many both in India and throughout the world.

Author : Akbar Karami
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0983498598

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Neighborhood of the Gods by Akbar Karami Pdf

Author : C. K. Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Religion in Chinese Society by C. K. Yang Pdf