Under Eastern Eyes

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9639776114

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Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas? A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives

Author : Janice Kulyk Keefer
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019345357

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Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830875856

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Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Pdf

Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationships with women, and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead you into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus.

Author : Arnold McMillin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349218790

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This collection of essays concerns perceptions of the West as reflected in the work of Russian writers of the Third Wave of emigration. The authors include several well-known writers such as Aksenov, Gladilin, Zinik and Loseff as well as Soviet and Western scholars, and the result is both varied and surprising: in the light it throws on the Russian mentality, on the phenomenon of exile and on aspects of the West. It will interest students of contemporary literature, of the Soviet mentality, and of exile in general.

Author : Brad Vaughn
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830873616

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Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes by Brad Vaughn Pdf

Christianity Today's 2020 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Biblical Studies Biblical Foundations Award Finalist What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”? Combining research from Asian scholars with his many years of experience living and working in East Asia, Brad Vaughn directs our attention to Paul's letter to the Romans. He argues that some traditional East Asian cultural values are closer to those of the first-century biblical world than common Western cultural values. In addition, he adds his voice to the scholarship engaging the values of honor and shame in particular and their influence on biblical interpretation. As readers, we bring our own cultural fluencies and values to the text. Our biases and background influence what we observe—and what we overlook. This book helps us consider ways we sometimes miss valuable insights because of widespread cultural blind spots. In Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes, Vaughn demonstrates how paying attention to East Asian culture provides a helpful lens for interpreting Paul's most complex letter. When read this way, we see how honor and shame shape so much of Paul's message and mission.

Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869329

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Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Pdf

Christianity Today Book Award winner Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people. But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, and was very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. With razor-sharp attention to the text, Kenneth Bailey examines the cultural milieu and rhetorical strategies that shaped this pivotal epistle. He discovers the deep layers of the Hebraic prophetic tradition informing Paul's writing, linking the Apostle with the great prophets of the Old Testament. Throughout, Bailey employs his expert knowledge of Near Eastern and Mediterranean culture to deliver to readers a new understanding of Paul and his world. Familiar passages take on a new hue as they are stripped of standard Western interpretations and rendered back into their ancient setting.

Author : Karen Fang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317298816

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Surveillance in Asian Cinema by Karen Fang Pdf

Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.

Author : Wendy Bracewell,Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:690146963

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Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775414797

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Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested. The action takes place in Russia and Switzerland and shows Conrad's cynicism of revolutionary movements and ideals. It also condemns the impact on the poor and innocent by the actions of the powerful.

Author : Michelle Barker
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781773210735

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The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker Pdf

Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it’s as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.

Author : Chris Santner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684702145

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Eyes for the Allies: A Novel of World War II Espionage in Eastern France by Chris Santner Pdf

Set in the rural French farmland and forest west of Verdun, this World War II story is filled with intrigue, action, and romance. Alphonse DeBoy and his three grandchildren--Aur�lie, Josette, and Luc--have been supplying food to their American visitor, Maj. Mark Dornier, for close to a year from their farm just outside Les Petites Islettes east of Verdun. Dornier parachuted into the For�t Domaniale de Lachalade in October 1943, and he's been living at a World War I French artillery camp. He's waiting for a second British officer, Lt. Alex Ryder, to join him. Ryder is in love with a secretary, Polly Berson, who is really a captain in the SOE. She also happens to be the cousin of Aur�lie, Josette and Luc. To complicate things further, Josette and Aur�lie develop feelings for Dornier. As Dornier gathers information on German defensive positions, the Nazis have developed several weapons to slow down the Allies when they invade, leaving it to the SOE and its operatives to gather intelligence on the weapons.

Author : Martin E Malia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040489

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Russia under Western Eyes by Martin E Malia Pdf

A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.

Author : Martina Deuchler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684175536

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Under the Ancestors’ Eyes by Martina Deuchler Pdf

Under the Ancestors’ Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina Deuchler maintains that the surprising continuity of the descent-group model gave the ruling elite cohesion and stability and enabled it to retain power from the early Silla (fifth century) to the late nineteenth century. This argument, underpinned by a fresh interpretation of the late-fourteenth-century Koryŏ-Chosŏn transition, illuminates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device through which the elite regained and maintained dominance during the Chosŏn period. Neo-Confucianism as espoused in Korea did not level the social hierarchy but instead tended to sustain the status system. In the late Chosŏn, it also provided ritual models for the lineage-building with which local elites sustained their preeminence vis-à-vis an intrusive state. Though Neo-Confucianism has often been blamed for the rigidity of late Chosŏn society, it was actually the enduring native kinship ideology that preserved the strict social-status system. By utilizing historical and social anthropological methodology and analyzing a wealth of diverse materials, Deuchler highlights Korea’s distinctive elevation of the social over the political.

Author : Robert Fyall
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830871414

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Now My Eyes Have Seen You by Robert Fyall Pdf

'Now my eyes have seen you." (Job 42:5) Few biblical texts are more daunting, and yet more fascinating, than the book of Job—and few have been the subject of such diverse interpretation. For Robert Fyall, the mystery of God's ways and the appalling evil and suffering in the world are at the heart of Job's significant contribution to the canon of Scripture. This New Studies in Biblical Theology volume offers a holistic reading of Job, with particular reference to its depiction of creation and evil, and finds significant clues to its meaning in the striking imagery it uses. Fyall takes seriously the literary and artistic integrity of the book of Job, as well as its theological profundity. He concludes that it is not so much about suffering per se as about creation, providence and knowing God, and how—n the crucible of suffering—these are to be understood. He encourages us to listen to this remarkable literature, to be moved by it, and to see its progress from shrieking protest to repentence and vision. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

Author : Robert Letham
Publisher : Mentor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Reformed Church
ISBN : 1845502477

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Through Western Eyes by Robert Letham Pdf

The culture of the Eastern Church, to many, is alien. Yet there are recognizable family resemblances. This book aims to start to get to know one another again from a Reformed Protestant perspective.