The Scent Of God

Author : Saikat Majumdar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789386797377

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The Scent of God by Saikat Majumdar Pdf

In an elite all-boys’ boarding school run by a Hindu monastic order in late-twentieth century India, things aren’t what they look like on the surface… Anirvan, a young student, is fascinated by the music and silence of spiritual life. He dreams of becoming a monk. But as he seeks his dream, he finds himself drawn to a fellow student, and they come together to form an intimate and unspeakable relationship. The boys sweat at cricket and football, crack science and mathematics in pursuit of golden careers, and meditate to the aroma of incense and flowers. It’s a world of ruthless discipline shaped by monks in flowing saffron. A sceptical teacher mentors Anirvan and reveals his suspicion of this vigilant atmosphere. Does the beating of the boys reveal urges that cannot be named? What is the meaning of monastic celibacy? What, indeed, holds the brotherhood together? Against himself, Anirvan gets sucked into a whirl of events outside the walls of the monastery, in the midst of prostitutes, scheming politicians and the impoverished Muslims of the villages surrounding the school. When the love of his life returns to him, the boys’ desire for each other push them towards a wild course of action. But will that give them a life together in a world that does not recognize their kind of love?

Author : Vigen Guroian
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0802830765

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The Fragrance of God by Vigen Guroian Pdf

In this literary gem Vigen Guroian chronicles not merely the changing seasons but the course of his own life as he and his family move from Maryland to a new home near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Leaving the old garden behind and cultivating another garden become an emblem of our journey through life, marked as it is by both bitter losses and sweet new blessings. While deeply personal, The Fragrance of God vividly unfolds the great biblical themes of the grandeur of God s creation, the senses as paths to experiencing God, and the garden as a place of birth, death, and renewal. Laced throughout with quotations from Guroian s beloved church fathers and replete with theological reflection, The Fragrance of God will lead readers down a path of deeper insight into the creation and the Creator.

Author : Beryl Singleton Bissell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734553901

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The Scent of God by Beryl Singleton Bissell Pdf

The Scent of God is the story of the search for God that led eighteen-year-old Beryl into a cloister and the unraveling of that vocation in Puerto Rico when her abbess sent her to Puerto Rico where she met and fell in love with a man of God, Padre Vittorio, an Italian priest. The Scent of God is a love story that traverses a landscape rife with passion and color as it moves from an austere monastery in New Jersey to Puerto Rico to Italy and back again.

Author : Steven James
Publisher : Standard Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0784717753

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How to Smell Like God by Steven James Pdf

How to Smell Like God is filled with humorous and gripping true stories to help teens discover what it really means to know God, serve Jesus, and be led by the Holy Spirit. After each story readers are challenged to apply the message to their own lives.

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge Pdf

Author : Fiona Cheong
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780252090080

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The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong Pdf

The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl's coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of "grown-ups" in her diasporic Chinese family and to the veiled threats in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years. From a child's limited perspective, the novel depicts the emerging awareness of sexuality in both its beauty and its consequences, especially for women. In the context of postcolonial politics, Fiona Cheong skillfully parallels the uncertainties of adolescence with the growing paranoia of a population kept on alert to communist infiltration. In luminous prose, the novel raises timely questions about safety, protection, and democracy--and what one has to give up to achieve them. Ideal for students and scholars of Asian American and transnational literature, postcolonial history, women's studies, and many other interconnected disciplines, this special edition of The Scent of the Gods includes a contextualizing introduction, a chronology of historical events covered in the novel, and explanatory notes.

Author : Thomas Nelson Publishers,Thomas Nelson Publishing Staff
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785201203

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Daughters of God by Thomas Nelson Publishers,Thomas Nelson Publishing Staff Pdf

God's heart for women is revealed through a series of biblical portraits beginning with Mary, followed by Eve, Rahab, Anna and Elizabeth. Includes an ounce of anointing oil.

Author : J. Gerald Janzen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780802848291

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At the Scent of Water by J. Gerald Janzen Pdf

"On the basis of a study of "east wind" in the Bible -- "whirlwind" in Job -- Janzen proposes that the prominence God gives to rain in Job 38, with its renewal of the parched earth and the ensuing vigor of all forms of life, signals God's response to Job's thirst, heals Job's bitterness, and restores him to a life at the end of which he dies contented. Janzen demonstrates how life-crippling bitterness is transcended and hope in life's worthwhileness is restored in the face of grievous evil. The resolution of the Joban question lies not in a vindication of divine justice but, rather, in God's renewal of Job's appetite for life. Janzen underscores this interpretation with a candid epilogue on his own struggle with aggressive prostate cancer, which enabled him to connect personally with Job's story and to find a fresh and illuminating grace."--From publisher description.

Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897920

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Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Pdf

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.

Author : Naomi Zacharias
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310590446

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The Scent of Water by Naomi Zacharias Pdf

Follow Naomi as she talks to women working in brothels in Mumbai; survivors of an Indonesian tsunami in which more than 160,000 lives were lost; a young girl waiting on an operation to save her life; and victims of domestic violence horrifically burned by fire. Be still with her when she realizes the pain she feels in the face of these extreme injustices reveals a common struggle that exists within all of humanity. And rise with her as she wrestles with confusion over her identity, comes face to face with redemption, and then begins to understand her own story ... and to find her calling. The Scent of Water will open your eyes to the complexities of the world, showing you pain can also be beauty, and how each are found in the unlikeliest of places. Zacharias doesn’t have all the answers. But she has hope and encouragement that will empower you to find and begin the adventure of your life.

Author : Deborah A. Green
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271066233

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The Aroma of Righteousness by Deborah A. Green Pdf

In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature, Green demonstrates the ways in which the rabbis’ reading of biblical texts and their intimate experience with aromatics build and deepen their interpretations. The study uncovers the cultural associations that are evoked by perfume and incense in both the Hebrew Bible and midrashic texts and seeks to understand the cultural, theological, and experiential motivations and impulses that lie behind these interpretations. Green accomplishes this by examining the relationship between the textual traditions of the Hebrew Bible and Midrash, the surviving evidence from the material culture of Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, and cultural evidence as described by the rabbis and other Roman authors.

Author : Constantina R. Palmer
Publisher : Ancient Faith Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 1936270420

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The Scent of Holiness by Constantina R. Palmer Pdf

Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor. Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent pilgrimages to a women's monastery in Greece and absorbs the nuns' particular approach to their spiritual life. If you're a woman who's read of Mount Athos and longed to partake of its grace-filled atmosphere, this book is for you. Men who wish to understand how women's spirituality differs from their own will find it a fascinating read as well.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440674396

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To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck Pdf

A Penguin Classic Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father’s spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph’s prosperity, and the farm flourishes—until one brother, frightened by Joseph’s pagan belief, kills the tree, allowing disease and famine to descend on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man’s attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God and the forces of the unconscious within. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Hassan Ghedi Santur
Publisher : Mawenzi House Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988449731

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The Youth of God by Hassan Ghedi Santur Pdf

The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. This intensely moving novel is also a powerful allegory of the struggle for the soul of Islam in modern times.

Author : Paulo Lins
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555846848

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City of God by Paulo Lins Pdf

The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. “A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing” (Publishers Weekly). City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. “With plot devices sometimes as minimal as the dawning of a new day, City of God seems more like a mosaic than a novel, but it’s a mosaic with unforgettably vibrant colors.” —Booklist