Retracing Steps
Retracing Steps

Author: Robert Mazibuko

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1637647093

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Retracing Steps By: Robert Mazibuko About the Author Robert was born and raised in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. There he received his early education until his second year at university. He later completed university in the United States. For several years, Mazibuko served as a traveling teacher for the Bahá’í Faith in South Africa and, later, in Swaziland, teaching the Faith in city and rural environments. He was elected and served on the Bahá’í National Spiritual Assembly of South Africa for ten years. While in South Africa, Robert also served as a translator, translating two major works of the Bahá’í Faith: the Kitáb-i-Iqán (The Book of Certitude) and the Hidden Words into Xhosa, an African language, as well as other booklets and documents. He became a citizen in the United States in 1992 where he currently resides with his family. Mazibuko has also written and published five other books.

In Dwelling
In Dwelling

Author: Peter King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1317118030

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A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This means that we have to learn to accept dwelling as it is and find some accommodation with our surrounding environment. This book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. It explores the manner in which we use housing to exclude others and so protect our privacy. It also argues we need to exclude others in order to protect and nurture our loved ones. The book combines philosophical analysis and literary and film criticism to put forward an innovative and insightful new approach to looking at housing. It draws on the work of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Nussbaum and Scruton and the films of Chaplin, Bergman, Lynch, Tarr, Teshigahara and Van Sant to construct a new theoretical approach to housing research.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Race
Life Is a Journey, Not a Race

Author: S. B. Sia

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-03-17

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1666797472

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Life presents us with challenges as well as opportunities. It confronts us with obstacles as we journey on, but it also offers us various pathways and routes that we can take. Comparing our life-journey to the travels we make in life, this book is an invitation to readers to face up to those challenges and to meet them through a series of reflections called "comma-moments": the chance to "stop momentarily and mull things over," or to "create space in time" as they go about the business of living from day to day. Like commas in a sentence, which help us to read and interpret its meaning properly, a life punctuated with short reflective breaks enables us to draw out its meaning and significance. Drawing on his vast educational background and diverse global travels, the author shares with readers some "thoughts for food" while on our life-journeys. These reflections, as well as anecdotes and stories, also avail themselves of the real-life experiences of others and the wisdom of many contemporary voices and historical figures throughout the world, especially those who have been concerned with the kind of reflection that will help as we move on in life. In particular, it discusses a conceptual life-map to aid us navigate our way in life and to step up to its challenges.