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Author : Mayo Mohs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450023699
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds, Other Gods written by Mayo Mohs and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mayo Mohs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds, Other Gods written by Mayo Mohs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teffi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375397
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds written by Teffi and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Author : Christopher G. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984293
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds written by Christopher G. White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.
Author : P. C. W. Davies
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140138771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds written by P. C. W. Davies and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Davies explains the significance of the amazing quantum universe, where fact is stranger than any science fiction. He takes us into a world where commonsense notions of space, time, and causality must be left behind as the realm of solid matter dissolves into vibrating patterns of ghostly energy, and where mind and matter are interwoven in a subtle and holistic manner. An Australian physicist and author of GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS, Davies writes for the lay reader in simple language.
Author : Ana Levy-Lyons
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 9781478977223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)
Download or read book No Other Gods written by Ana Levy-Lyons and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now includes discussion questions and contemplation exercises for individual study and reading groups. Ana Levy-Lyons, a public theologian who is equally at home in secular and religious worlds, offers a deeply perceptive reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments for our modern lives. The Ten Commandments are a spiritual resource for social justice. A politically and spiritually brazen prescription for living, the Ten Commandments would turn our world upside down if we actually followed them. Far from being only ethical norms on which everyone already agrees or a remnant of a bygone oppressive era, the Commandments are actually countercultural practices. Today the Ten Commandments are a divisive part of American culture. Religious conservatives champion them, even if they don't always practice them. Religious liberals and the nonreligious may bristle at what they perceive as antiquated moral restrictions. But, this ancient code still has vital contemporary relevance. Rev. Levy-Lyons explores ways the Commandments bring us meaning, illuminate our values, and help us navigate through the turbulent waters of social injustice, environmental crises, and societal inequity. No Other Gods looks at each Commandment in new ways, moving beyond interpersonal morality to the global economy and our hyper-connected age. From the first, You Shall Have No Other Gods Besides Me (Dethrone the Modern Deities of Political, Social, and Corporate Power), to the tenth Do Not Covet (Practice Your Liberation-You Have Enough, You Are Enough)-and all those in between-she underscores how the Commandments can produce a bold spiritual consciousness. Whether you are deeply religious or spiritual-but-not-religious, learn how the Ten Commandments can guide you to resist injustice, heal our earth, and find personal dignity amid the free-for-alls of modern life. "We don't have to invent a bunch of new practices for a meaningful way to live out our spirituality and social justice politics," says Levy-Lyons. "There is a perfectly good set of ten of them, all ready to go, with as much progressive firepower as any of us can handle, that has existed for some three thousand years."
Author : Keller Kimbrough
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545509
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds written by Keller Kimbrough and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture largely unknown today outside of Japan. These stories, called otogizōshi, or Muromachi tales (named after the Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573), date from approximately the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Often richly illustrated in a painted-scroll format, these vernacular stories frequently express Buddhist beliefs and provide the practical knowledge and moral education required to navigate medieval Japanese society. The otogizōshi represent a major turning point in the history of Japanese literature. They bring together many earlier types of narrative—court tales, military accounts, anecdotes, and stories about the divine origins of shrines and temples––joining book genres with parlor arts and the culture of itinerant storytellers and performers. The works presented here are organized into three thematically overlapping sections titled, “Monsters, Warriors, and Journeys to Other Worlds,” “Buddhist Tales,” and “Interspecies Affairs.” Each translation is prefaced by a short introduction, and the book features images from the original scroll paintings, illustrated manuscripts, and printed books.
Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791423301
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Gods Have Landed written by James R. Lewis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive account of the religious dimensions of the UFO/flying saucer experience.
Author : Okey Ndibe
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953144
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Foreign Gods, Inc. written by Okey Ndibe and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed’s power to subsume all things, including the sacred. Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery. Ike's plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American college, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. Forced to eke out a living as a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support. When he turns to gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes. And so he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue, where he has to deal with old friends, family, and a mounting conflict between those in the village who worship the deity, and those who practice Christianity. A meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America; the nature and impact of religious conflicts; an examination of the ways in which modern culture creates or heightens infatuation with the "exotic," including the desire to own strange objects and hanker after ineffable illusions; and an exploration of the shifting nature of memory, Foreign Gods is a brilliant work of fiction that illuminates our globally interconnected world like no other.
Author : Brian Cox
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306820609
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Quantum Universe written by Brian Cox and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw’s contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the “weirdness” of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory. The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton’s laws of motion, Maxwell’s theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Author : C.J. Taylor
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770491767
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople written by C.J. Taylor and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heartbreaking Mi’kmaq story of Minnow, a mermaid in the Atlantic who must choose between two worlds to that of Water Lily and her five brothers, told by the Coos in British Columbia, creatures that inhabit fantastic realms appear in many First Nation stories. C. J. Taylor draws from those stories and from her own Mohawk heritage in this collection of haunting tales about some of the powerful spirits who touch the lives of human folk. The spirits of heaven and earth from the Ute help bring an understanding of the stars in the sky. The Cree story, “Souls in the Fog,” presents the battle between the good and the evil-minded. The Ojibwa “Fairy Village” is a unique and touching love story. Illustrated with her own powerful oil paintings, this is a collection to read and an excellent story-teller’s resource.
Author : Miriam Adeney
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573830225
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book God's Foreign Policy written by Miriam Adeney and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780872269156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Warriors, Gods & Spirits from Central & South American Mythology written by Douglas Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents myths and legends from the Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayas, and Incas.
Author : E. Warner
Publisher : Hachette Children's Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780340377369
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology written by E. Warner and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mayo Mohs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Other Worlds, Other Gods written by Mayo Mohs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Mitton
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426304484
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Planet Gods written by Jacqueline Mitton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific and mythological tour of the solar system.
Author : Michael Jordan
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781648372254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gods written by Michael Jordan and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book offers a comprehensive survey of gods and goddesses from cultures across the globe, with each entry covering specific cultures, dates of worship, the role the god played, and defining characteristics and symbols.
