The Christian Life
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 640
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Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
Author: Rosalie David
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2002-10-03
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0141941383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier customs. Arranged chronologically, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the world of half-human/ half-animal gods and goddesses; death rituals, the afterlife and mummification; the cult of sacred animals, pyramids, magic and medicine. An appendix contains translations of Ancient Eygtian spells.
The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience
Author: Efrosyni Boutsikas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 110848817X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
Race
Author: J. Kameron Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0199722234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the present. Carter's claim is that Christian theology, and the signal transformation it (along with Christianity) underwent, is at the heart of these legacies. In that transformation, Christian anti-Judaism biologized itself so as to racialize itself. As a result, and with the legitimation of Christian theology, Christianity became the cultural property of the West, the religious ground of white supremacy and global hegemony. In short, Christianity became white. The racial imagination is thus a particular kind of theological problem. Not content only to describe this problem, Carter constructs a way forward for Christian theology. Through engagement with figures as disparate in outlook and as varied across the historical landscape as Immanuel Kant, Frederick Douglass, Jarena Lee, Michel Foucault, Cornel West, Albert Raboteau, Charles Long, James Cone, Irenaeus of Lyons, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor, Carter reorients the whole of Christian theology, bringing it into the twenty-first century. Neither a simple reiteration of Black Theology nor another expression of the new theological orthodoxies, this groundbreaking book will be a major contribution to contemporary Christian theology, with ramifications in other areas of the humanities.
The Great Cosmic Mother
Author: Monica Sjoo
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-12-10
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 0062336967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess--which is tied to the cycles of women’s bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth--was the original religion of all humanity.
Sainthood and Race
Author: Molly H. Bassett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 131780872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. What happens when the category of sainthood is interrogated and inflected by the problematic category of race? Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh explores this complicated relationship by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint’s body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and universality by combining both theoretical and ethnographic studies of saints and race across a wide range of subjects within the humanities. Additionally, the book’s group of emerging and established religion scholars enhances this discussion of sainthood and race by integrating topics such as gender, community, and colonialism across a variety of historical, geographical, and religious contexts. This volume raises provocative questions for scholars and students interested in the intersection of religion and race today.
Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity
Author: Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2003-06
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0814767001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, meant specifically for those new to the field, brings together an ensemble of prominent scholars and illuminates the role religious myths have played in shaping those social boundaries that we call "races" and "ethnicities".
Race and the Cosmos
Author: Barbara A. Holmes
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781563383779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that theoretical physics and cosmology can provide a key to overcoming race-related problems, explaining how they enable a means for discussing individual and communal quests for fulfillment beyond racial, ethnic, class, and sexual barriers. Original.
Mephiston: City of Light
Author: Darius Hinks
Publisher: Games Workshop
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781789991314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final book in the Mephiston trilogy......but how does it end? Having fought during the devastation of Baal, Mephiston and a cohort of Blood Angels are drawn by cryptic visions to a wartorn world on the cusp of the Great Rift. Here, the sorcerers of the Thousand Sons seek to unite nine Silver Towers and bring about a ritual that will empower their master, the daemonprimarch Magnus. The ritual must be prevented, lest the entire subsector be cast into Chaos. Mephiston faces a challenge like no other, of his strength and his will, confronting a hidden truth that threatens to expose him to his darkest fears.
Poetry and Experience
Author: Wilhelm Dilthey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780691029283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing, influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. The essay "The Imagination of the Poet" (also known as his Poetics) is his most sustained attempt to examine the philosophical bearings of literature in relation to psychological and historical theory. Also included are "The Three Epochs of Modern Aesthetics and its Present Task," "Fragments for a Poetics," and two final essays discussing Goethe and Hölderlin. The latter are drawn from Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, a volume that was acclaimed on publication as a classic of literary criticism and that continues to be a model for the geistesgeschichtliche approach to literary history.
