Mountain, Water, Rock, God
Mountain, Water, Rock, God

Author: Luke Whitmore

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0520298020

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.

The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery
The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery

Author: Anning Jing

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9004483039

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An investigation of the myth, history, inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, painting, iconological program, festival, rituals and theater of the only known intact ancient dragon king temple in China

131 Christians Everyone Should Know
131 Christians Everyone Should Know

Author: Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1433672553

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This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how they lived, what they believed, and how their faith affected the course of world history. Includes a timeline with a historical context for each individual, key quotes from or about each personality, and more than 60 photos.

Gods of Howl Mountain
Gods of Howl Mountain

Author: Taylor Brown

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1250111773

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Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner.

God on the Mountain
God on the Mountain

Author: Lynda Randle

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780692092002

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This powerful devotional book, from Michael and Lynda Randle, shares stories of tragedy, triumph with words of encouragement and the reminder that the God on the Mountain is still God in the Valley.

Bride of the Water God
Bride of the Water God

Author: Mi-gyŏng Yun

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1616551879

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When Soah's impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah surprised to be rescued by the Water God - instead of killed - she never imagined she'd be a welcomed guest in Habaek's magical kingdom, where an exciting new life awaits her! Most surprising, however, is the Water God himself... and how very different he is from the monster Soah imagined.

Fish Sauce
Fish Sauce

Author: Anhthao Bui

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1300098015

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Fish Sauce is realistic fiction, and Anhthao's second anthology collection. With her memory, she invites readers to travel with her to Vietnam and go back to the time before and after the pivotal year of 1975. Anhthao also exposes her continuing journey in the United States, from the perspective of a newcomer, throughout nearly 100 short pieces of writing. Fish Sauce is dedicated to Cheri Johnson, Anhthao Bui's best friend, who is scrutinizing and zealous about Vietnamese culture, tradition, and people.

How to Become a Water Walker
How to Become a Water Walker

Author: Andrew Wommack

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2012-05-05

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1680310437

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It wasn't just fate or luck that Peter walked on the water while the other apostles stayed in the boat, but why do some people walk in miracles and others don't? A fatalistic philosophy will tell you that miracles only happen if God wills them but believing that will really kill your faith!If you want to walk on water and experience...

South and Meso-American Mythology A to Z
South and Meso-American Mythology A to Z

Author: Ann Bingham

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1438129580

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Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, important places, and other aspects of South American and Meso-American mythology.

Viet Nam
Viet Nam

Author: Hữu Ngọc

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2016-08-15

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0896804933

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During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Việt Nam News, Hà Nội’s English-language newspaper, Hữu Ngọc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the massive Wandering through Vietnamese Culture. With Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, Ohio University Press presents a selection from these many treasures, which are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country’s rich history, culture, and daily life. With extraordinary linguistic ability and a prodigious memory, Hữu Ngọc is among Việt Nam’s keenest observers of and writers about traditional Vietnamese culture and recent history. The author’s central theme—that all tradition is change through acculturation—twines through each of the book’s ten sections, which contain Hữu Ngọc’s ideas on Vietnamese religion, literature, history, exemplary figures, and more. Taken on its own, each brief essay is an engaging discussion of key elements of Vietnamese culture and the history of an issue confronting Việt Nam today.