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Author: Gary Holloway
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780253328410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides analysis of oral and written Church of Christ preacher anecdotes. This book presents history, religion, and storytelling in the South, using folklore methodology.
Author: Emily A. Duncan
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1250195667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn instant New York Times bestseller! A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy. This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.
Author: Thomas Washington Talley
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780870499258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of previously unpublished tales is a major contribution to the annals of African-American folk narrative. Ranging from fables to historical narratives, these tales contain a rich variety of information on folk customs, speech, and songs, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for nineteenth-century African-American culture. Negro Traditions offers wonderful descriptions of all manner of rural African-American folk customs, including valuable insights into post-Civil War life in rural Middle Tennessee - from riddles to dances - and how former slaves and their children felt about their lives. At times the movement of these tales toward tragedy is reminiscent of Faulkner; their humor suggests Sut Lovingood; their occasional dark surrealism has overtones of Cormac McCarthy. But the overriding reality of these tales as a representation of a people and their culture gives them a power that moves the reader beyond fiction and into factuality. Here are no banjo-plunking renditions of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"; these tales are full of the realities of life: violence, work, the power of the supernatural, family life, racial tension, and an intense burning resentment against slavery.
Author: David Stone
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-10-05
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0359138608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heart-wrenching account of one medic's journey through the sorrow of managing the emergencies of others. This tell-all story will put you on the front line of the reality of street paramedicine. From gruesome and violent encounters to making split-second decisions which may have cost a life, experience the emotional struggle our responders have to deal with on a daily basis. Through the highs and lows of his career, ten-year Paramedic David Stone doesn't hold back as he tells of the circumstances which haunted him and eventually drove him out of the career... and why it was all worth it in the end. Ride front seat with this thrill-packed memoir encompassing over a decade of true stories from the medic who experienced it.
Author: Maurice Drake
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James P. Leary
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780299173746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are brought to life in this casebook.
Author: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2024-06-24
Total Pages: 2032
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook 1: Contemplate the divine with “The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine.” Saint Augustine's magnum opus explores the theological foundations of Christianity and the relationship between the earthly city and the city of God. This profound work delves into issues of morality, justice, and the enduring nature of spiritual truths. Book 2: Continue your philosophical journey with “The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine.” In this continuation, Saint Augustine expands upon his reflections on the nature of God's city and the earthly realm. This monumental work remains a cornerstone in the study of Christian theology and philosophy. Book 3: Peer into the soul of a saint with “The Confessions of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine.” Augustine's autobiographical masterpiece provides an intimate account of his spiritual journey, personal struggles, and eventual conversion to Christianity. This enduring classic serves as a source of inspiration for those seeking a deeper understanding of faith and self-discovery.
Author: Hans Warren
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780299209803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
Author: Isabel Moreira
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-10-07
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199780404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe doctrine of purgatory - the state after death in which Christians undergo punishment by God for unforgiven sins - raises many questions. What is purgatory like? Who experiences it? Does purgatory purify souls, or punish them, or both? How painful is it? Heaven's Purge explores the first posing of these questions in Christianity's early history, from the first century to the eighth: an era in which the notion that sinful Christians might improve their lot after death was contentious, or even heretical. Isabel Moreira discusses a wide range of influences at play in purgatory's early formation, including ideas about punishment and correction in the Roman world, slavery, the value of medical purges at the shrines of saints, and the authority of visions of the afterlife for informing Christians of the hereafter. She also challenges the deeply ingrained supposition that belief in purgatory was a symptom of barbarized Christianity, and assesses the extent to which Irish and Germanic views of society, and the sources associated with them - penitentials and legal tariffs - played a role in purgatory's formation. Special attention is given to the writings of the last patristic author of antiquity, the Northumbrian monk Bede. Heaven's Purge is the first study to focus on purgatory's history in late antiquity, challenging the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.
Author: Susan Weingarten
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-12-10
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9047407504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Saint's Saints presents Jerome’s world picture as seen through his saints’ Lives. It analyses both his rhetoric and his descriptions of realia, and the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish sources to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world for his readers. Susan Weingarten looks at how Jerome dovetails his literary sources with his experience of the material world of the fourth century to write the Lives of the saints Paul, Hilarion, Malchus and Paula, effectively using them to write the Life of Saint Jerome. This is the first full-length study of Jerome’s saints’ Lives. It widens the on-going debate about mutual influences in Jewish and Christian literature in the fourth century, and revises our picture of the historical geography of Palestine.
