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Author : Mark T. Decker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Peculiar Portrayals written by Mark T. Decker and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays analyzing the role and treatment of Mormons and Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books.
Author : Robert Kysar
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451417371
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Preaching John written by Robert Kysar and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this helpful guide, preachers can find new and powerful resources for preaching in Johannine language and thought, as well as its use of narrative and discourse. It combines the practical with proposals for understanding the Gospel and 1 John.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197676529
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Joseph Smith's Gold Plates written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth to a new religion. According to Joseph Smith, in September of 1823 an angel appeared to him and directed him to a hill near his home. Buried there Smith found a box containing a stack of thin metal sheets, gold in color, about six inches wide, eight inches long, piled six or so inches high, bound together by large rings, and covered with what appeared to be ancient engravings. Exactly four years later, the angel allowed Smith to take the plates and instructed him to translate them into English. When the text was published, a new religion was born. The plates have had a long and active life, and the question of their reality has hovered over them from the beginning. Months before the Book of Mormon was published, newspapers began reporting on the discovery of a "Golden Bible." Within a few years over a hundred articles had appeared. Critics denounced Smith as a charlatan for claiming to have a wondrous object that he refused to show, while believers countered by pointing to witnesses who said they saw the plates. Two hundred years later the mystery of the gold plates remains. In this book renowned historian of Mormonism Richard Lyman Bushman offers a cultural history of the gold plates. Bushman examines how the plates have been imagined by both believers and critics--and by treasure-seekers, novelists, artists, scholars, and others--from Smith's first encounter with them to the present. Why have they been remembered, and how have they been used? And why do they remain objects of fascination to this day? By examining these questions, Bushman sheds new light on Mormon history and on the role of enchantment in the modern world.
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400078997
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Author : J.B. Haws
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199897646
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Mormon Image in the American Mind written by J.B. Haws and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Americans think about Mormons - and why do they think what they do? This is a story where the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, the Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, and even Miss America all figure into the equation. The book is punctuated by the presidential campaigns of George and Mitt Romney, four decades apart. A survey of the past half-century reveals a growing tension inherent in the public's views of Mormons and the public's views of the religion that inspires that body.
Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000377016
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Isn't it Ironic? written by Ian Kinane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic? How do we accurately decode works of popular film, literature, television, music, and other cultural forms which sell themselves as bitingly ironic commentaries on current society, but which are also problematic celebrations of the very issues they purport to critique? And what happens when texts intended and received in one manner are themselves ironically recontextualised in another? Bringing together studies across a range of cultural texts including popular music, film and television, Isn’t it Ironic? will appeal to scholars of the social sciences and humanities with interests in cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literary studies and sociology.
Author : Eric B. Elbogen
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801453
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Violence and Mental Illness written by Eric B. Elbogen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When newsworthy violence occurs, mental illness is frequently blamed. This overemphasis on mental illness fuels social stigma and cognitive bias that exaggerates the link between violence and mental illness. But science shows this link is weaker than commonly believed and that numerous other risk factors are stronger predictors of violence, such as psychopathy, younger age, being male, access to guns, substance abuse, and anger. Because overemphasizing the role of mental illness leads to underemphasizing the role of these other risk factors, this leads to suboptimal violence prevention policy. Conversely, if the media, policymakers, and the public recognize these stronger, multiple risk factors for violence, then this opens up the door to developing and implementing more effective strategies for evidence-based violence prevention that will lead to greater public safety"--
Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374308896
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book A Peculiar Peril written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.
Author : K. Mirmohamadi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137401338
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen written by K. Mirmohamadi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena.
Author : Daniel Parish Kidder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches written by Daniel Parish Kidder and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel P. Kidder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Brazil and the Brazilians, portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches written by Daniel P. Kidder and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. P. KIDDER, J. C. FLETCHER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book BRAZIL AND THE BRAZILIANS, PORTRAYED IN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES written by D. P. KIDDER, J. C. FLETCHER and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Bruce Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book On the Portrayal of the Life and Character of Lord Byron in the Novel by B. Disraeli Entitled "Venetia" written by Herbert Bruce Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Macmillan
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080867298
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Freud Evaluated - The Completed Arc written by M. Macmillan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1990-12-14 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an historically based critical evaluation of Freud's personality theory. In it the observations Freud made are described and the theoretical ideas he put forward for explaining them are set out. The adequacy of Freud's explanations are judged against the logical and scientific standards of Freud's own time. The historical perspective will give the reader a sound basis on which to make a judgement about psycho-analysis as a method of investigation and a theory of personality as well as a sense of what Freud was about from Freud's own standpoint. Freud's endeavour is sited in the psychological and psychiatric context of the time, a period not previously given the critical attention it warrants. All of Freud's important assumptions and characteristic modes of thought are to be found in this formative period. The placement also brings out more clearly the basis of a number of the unresolved problems of contemporary psycho-analytic theory, such as the place of affect and the instinctual drives, the role of the ego, and the basis of treatment. The core of the evaluation centres on Freud's basic method for gathering data - free association - a method which is not much written about and hardly ever criticised. What is said about it is new and more substantial than the few criticisms that have been made. Although a very critical work, there is probably no other appraisal which allows Freud and his colleagues and followers to speak so directly for themselves.
Author : Daniel Schenkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Character of Jesus Portrayed written by Daniel Schenkel and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663457
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Spanish National Identity, Colonial Power, and the Portrayal of Muslims and Jews During the Rif War (1909-27) written by Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up for the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize This book examines how anxieties about colonial power and national identity are reflected in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures during the Spanish colonisation of Northern Morocco from 1909 to 1927. This understudied period, known as the Rif War, is highly significant because of its role in shaping the identities that came into conflict in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Furthermore, the book makes a key contribution to Spanish colonial studies by offering a comparative analysis of Spanish representations of the Iberian Peninsula's cultural and historical relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews in this context, showing how conflicting visions of Spanish identity are portrayed through and in relation to them.
Author : James C. Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches by James C. Fletcher and D. P. Kidder written by James C. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
