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Book Synopsis Sanctified Subversives by : Horacio Sierra
Download or read book Sanctified Subversives written by Horacio Sierra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun’s role in the popular imagination via literature explores how writers on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide employed the role of the nun to showcase the powerful potential these women possessed in acting out as sanctified subversives. The texts under consideration include William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, María de Zayas’s The Disenchantments of Love, Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun, Catalina de Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s autobiographical and literary works. No other book addresses these issues through a concentrated study of these authors and their literary works, much less by offering an in-depth discussion of the literature and culture of seventeenth-century England, Spain, and Mexico.
Book Synopsis Sanctified Subversives by : Horacio Sierra
Download or read book Sanctified Subversives written by Horacio Sierra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I analyze Sor Juana's literary prowess by elucidating the poetic style in which she was able to express disillusionment with the patriarchy and espouse bold feminist rhetoric while simultaneously living up to the expectations of her religious profession. I demonstrate how Sor Juana's writing positions her as a hybrid figure--pious nun and worldly feminist--who was able to amalgamate the secular and spiritual in ingenious poetry, prose, and drama that articulates both the traditional teachings of Christ and feminist rhetoric in laymen's terms. I conclude my dissertation with a chapter that extends this research into the contemporary era with an analysis of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The clear physical and psychic similarities between the entrapped women of Gilead and the enclosed nuns of Renaissance literature allow me to bridge my examination of concerns for women's agency in patriarchal societies governed with strong Judeo-Christian influences in the early modern era with those of our contemporary era. The militant theocracy and quasi-Medieval religious atmosphere of Gilead helps me round out my arguments from previous chapters and negotiate intersections between the interests of early modern authors and Atwood's post-modern sociopolitical literary activism.
Book Synopsis A Peculiar People by : Rodney R. Clapp
Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Rodney R. Clapp and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1996-11-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Clapp asks and answers the question, How can the church provide a significant alternative to the culture in which it is embedded?
Book Synopsis Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by : Nesta Helen Webster
Download or read book Secret Societies and Subversive Movements written by Nesta Helen Webster and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGY by : Michael Paul Rogin
Download or read book SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGY written by Michael Paul Rogin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how that family first engaged Melville in and then isolated him from American political and social life. Melville’s brother and father-in-law are shown to link Moby-Dick to the crisis over expansion and slavery. White-Jacket and Billy Budd, which concern shipboard conflicts between masters and seamen, are related to an execution at sea in which Melville’s cousin played a decisive part. The figure of Melville’s father haunts The Confidence Man, whose subject is the triumph of the marketplace and the absence of authority. A provocative study of one of our supreme literary artists.
Book Synopsis Subversive Sabbath by : A. J. Swoboda
Download or read book Subversive Sabbath written by A. J. Swoboda and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a 24/7 culture of endless productivity, workaholism, distraction, burnout, and anxiety--a way of life to which we've sadly grown accustomed. This tired system of "life" ultimately destroys our souls, our bodies, our relationships, our society, and the rest of God's creation. The whole world grows exhausted because humanity has forgotten to enter into God's rest. This book pioneers a creative path to an alternative way of existing. Combining creative storytelling, pastoral sensitivity, practical insight, and relevant academic research, Subversive Sabbath offers a unique invitation to personal Sabbath-keeping that leads to fuller and more joyful lives. A. J. Swoboda demonstrates that Sabbath is both a spiritual discipline and a form of social justice, connects Sabbath-keeping to local communities, and explains how God may actually do more when we do less. He shows that the biblical practice of Sabbath-keeping is God's plan for the restoration and healing of all creation. The book includes a foreword by Matthew Sleeth.
Book Synopsis Subversive Imaginations by : Nadya Peterson
Download or read book Subversive Imaginations written by Nadya Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the profound changes in Soviet society in recent years, the author considers the demise of Soviet literature and the emergence of its Russian progeny through the prism of the writers' engagement with fantasy. Viewing the mutual interaction of Soviet/Russian literary output with aspects of the dominant culture such as ideology and politics, Nadya Peterson traces the process of mainstream literary change in the context of broader social change. She explores the subversive character of the fantastic orientation, its Utopian and apocalyptic motifs, and its dialogical relationship with socialist realism, as it steadily gathered force in the latter Soviet decades. The shattering of the mythic colossus did not put an end to these opposing forces, but rather diverted them in various unexpected directions–as the author explains in her concluding chapters on the new "alternative" literatures.
Book Synopsis State Churches Destructive of Christianity and Subversive of the Liberties of Man by : Robert Lowery
Download or read book State Churches Destructive of Christianity and Subversive of the Liberties of Man written by Robert Lowery and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Geology subversive of Divine Revelation! A letter to the Rev. Adam Sedgwick ... being a scriptural refutation of the geological postitions promulgated in his ... Commencement Sermon, preached in the University of Cambridge, 1832 by : Henry COLE (D.D., of Clare Hall, Cambridge.)
Download or read book Popular Geology subversive of Divine Revelation! A letter to the Rev. Adam Sedgwick ... being a scriptural refutation of the geological postitions promulgated in his ... Commencement Sermon, preached in the University of Cambridge, 1832 written by Henry COLE (D.D., of Clare Hall, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Light from the lowly; or, Lives of persons who sanctified themselves in humble positions, tr. [and ed.] by W. McDonald by : Francisco Javier Butiña
Download or read book Light from the lowly; or, Lives of persons who sanctified themselves in humble positions, tr. [and ed.] by W. McDonald written by Francisco Javier Butiña and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by : Nesta H. Webster
Download or read book Secret Societies and Subversive Movements written by Nesta H. Webster and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best books on secret societies ever written. Webster was an historical writer who wrote a number of books on the French Revolution. After World War I she was intrigued with the Marxist revolt, so wrote World Revolution, examining how and why people continue to revolt. As her search went deeper, clear meanings surfaced behind our revolutionsand they involved an agenda by secret societies. This book lays out, in historical perspective, how these secret societies and subversive movements have operated from behind the scenes. Not all of them aspire to rule the world or manipulate politics or world currency, but there are some major ones, according to Webster, that are. As a respected writer and world historian, she provides proof from within these pages.
Book Synopsis Sanctified Ones by : Otto Stockmayer
Download or read book Sanctified Ones written by Otto Stockmayer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sanctified by Grace by : Kent Eilers
Download or read book Sanctified by Grace written by Kent Eilers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on the Christian life abound. Some focus on spirituality, others on practices, and others still on doctrines such as justification or forgiveness. Few offer an account of the Christian life that portrays redeemed Christian existence within the multifaceted and beautiful whole of the Christian confession. This book attempts to fill that gap. It provides a constructive, specifically theological interpretation of the Christian life according to the nature of God's grace. This means coordinating the Triune God, his reconciling, justifying, redemptive, restorative, and otherwise transformative action with those practices of the Christian life emerging from it. The doctrine of the Christian life developed here unifies doctrine and life, confession and practice within the divine economy of grace. Drawing together some of the most important theologians in the church today, Sanctified by Grace achieves what no other theological text offers – a shared work of dogmatic theology oriented to redeemed Christian existence.
Book Synopsis Subversive Family by : Ferdinand Mount
Download or read book Subversive Family written by Ferdinand Mount and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family. In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of powerful revolutionary movements, the leaders of which, whether they be political ideologues, theologians, feudal lords, or feminist writers, have done their utmost to render the family a subordinate instrument of their purpose but that, in spite of it all, the family endures. Mount maintains that many widely held contemporary beliefs about the family are based on a willful misreading of the evidence: among the myths are that arranged marriages were the norm until this century; that child care is a modern innovation; that in earlier societies children were treated as expendable objects; that the nuclear family is not a 20th-century invention; and that romantic love never existed before the troubador poets glorified adultery. Divorce, he contends, is no great novelty either, he shows that in many times and places it has been almost as easy to obtain as it is today. Far from diminishing the general desire and respect for family life, Mount contends that the provision for divorce has been popularly regarded as an integral part of any sensible system of family law. This study should jolt the reader into a re-assessment of one of the most familiar and ancient institutions, and encourage greater consideration for policies today that support the family.
Download or read book What on Earth? written by Barney Wiget and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most famous Sermon, Jesus announces a Kingdom so counterintuitive that it appears upside down in contrast to conventional wisdom. By prescribing both a revolutionary personal piety and a radical social possibility he teaches us how to become better people who in turn make the world better. His vision for a countercultural Kingdom challenges our engagement with contemporary culture morally, socially, and even politically. The impact of this Kingdom “on the earth as it is in heaven,” with a view to partnering with Jesus in his venture to nudge the world toward its intended design is the focus of this compelling treatment of the Sermon. By a lifestyle of holy nonconformity shaped by the “Blessed Attitudes” (Beatitudes), Jesus commissions his prophetic community to embody a social alternative that the world cannot imagine on its own and to foment a humble and loving cultural shift where the privileged and powerless flourish together in peace and justice. As previews of the coming attractions when Christ will return and reign as King over a new heaven and earth, Kingdom citizens work toward initiating such a world on earth as it is in heaven today.
Download or read book Subversive written by Crystal Downing and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C.S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke about faith and culture in revolutionary ways as she addressed the evergreen question of to what extent faith should hold on to tradition and to what extent it should evolve with a changing culture. Thanks to her unmatched wisdom, prophetic tone, and insistent strength, Dorothy Sayers is a voice that we cannot afford to ignore. Providing a blueprint for bridge-building in contemporary, polarizing contexts, Subversive shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light. Urging readers to reassess interpretations of the Bible that impede the cause of Christ, Sayers helps twenty-first-century Christians navigate a society increasingly suspicious of evangelical vocabularies and find new ways to talk and think about faith and culture. Ultimately, she will inspire believers, on both the right and the left, to evaluate how and why their language perpetuates divisive certitude rather than the hopeful humility of faith, and will show us all a better way forward.
Book Synopsis Subversive Sounds by : Charles B. Hersch
Download or read book Subversive Sounds written by Charles B. Hersch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune
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