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Author : Andrew O'Shea
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441118829
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Selfhood and Sacrifice written by Andrew O'Shea and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Margo Kitts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190656484
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation written by Margo Kitts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition treated in this volume, from ascetic heroes who conquer their passions to save others by dying, to righteous warriors who suffer and die valiantly while challenging the status quo. At the same time, there are persistent disputes about the concepts used to justify these deaths, such as altruism, heroism, and religion itself. In this volume, renowned scholars bring their literary and historical expertise to bear on the contested issue of religiously sanctioned suicide. Three examine contemporary movements with disputed classical roots, while eleven look at classical religious literatures which variously laud and disparage figures who invite self-harm to the point of death. Overall, the volume offers an important scholarly corrective to the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost.
Author : Chul Woo Son
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625641605
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage written by Chul Woo Son and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans. With hierarchy of age, social status, and gender-defined roles taking primacy over equality and justice, self-sacrifice becomes instrumental in maintaining family and social relationships. Unfortunately, in family relationships, sacrifice has more to do with submission and endurance than it does with sacrificial service that is redemptive and mutually beneficial. When self-sacrifice carries hidden motives--coercive responsibility, obligation, shame, guilt, or one's reputation--that "self-sacrifice" is not self-giving, neither serving nor being of mutual benefit. In this context, it is important to explore the attitudes and motives of self-sacrifice in Korean American families. In unlocking and exploring the dynamics of the theology and practice of self-sacrifice for Korean Americans, this book explores cultural virtues, marital relationships, gender inequality, domestic violence, and their theological implications. The author introduces a new approach and model with a proposal for a healthier and a more judicious understanding of self-sacrifice for Korean American family relationships. The element of "equal regard" as pertaining to self-sacrifice offers Korean Americans a refreshing hope in the perspective of familial relationships and a liberating casting-off of culturally and religiously imposed burdens. The Korean American family ought to be grounded on a love ethic of equal regard and place its value on mutuality, self-sacrifice, and individual fulfillment. When this is done, sacrificial love can be understood as justly appropriated for both husbands and wives, males and females, and parents and children. Thus, Christian teaching and theology may deliver a more transparent message of true agape and its liberating effects for the marginalized, especially women and children.
Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139510835
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative written by Jan-Melissa Schramm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption celebrated the suffering of the innocent: to embrace a life of metaphorical self-sacrifice was to follow in the footsteps of Christ's literal Passion. Moreover, the ethical agenda of fiction relied on the expansion of sympathy which imaginative substitution was seen to encourage. But Victorian criminal law sought to calibrate punishment and culpability as it repudiated archaic models of sacrifice that scapegoated the innocent. The tension between these models is registered creatively in the fiction of novelists such as Dickens, Gaskell and Eliot, at a time when acts of Chartist protest, national sacrifices made during the Crimean War, and the extension of the franchise combined to call into question what it means for one man to 'stand for', and perhaps even 'die for', another.
Author : Stephanie Golden
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Slaying the Mermaid written by Stephanie Golden and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaying the Mermaid addresses the great numbers of women of all ages who find themselves constantly disregarding their own well-being to put the needs of others first. Drawing on the experiences of a diverse array of women, Stephanie Golden examines the dichotomy between selfhood and sacrifice, enabling women to become conscious of self-defeating behavior. Using the image of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, the ultimate ideal of the self-sacrificing woman, Golden offers a new paradigm: in order to run with the wolves, you must first slay the mermaid. Slaying the Mermaid uncovers the mythic and archetypal roots of the need felt by women to sacrifice their personal potential for the good of others. This book will help women reclaim their energy, creativity, and identity, while rediscovering the original, empowering meaning of sacrifice as an expansive and self-fulfilling act.
Author : Julia Meszaros
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191634166
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Sacrifice and Modern Thought written by Julia Meszaros and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been controversial. The present book, which is the result of several years of interdisciplinary collaboration, suggests that in many ways the fascination with sacrifice has its roots in modernity itself. Theological developments following the Reformation, the rediscovery of Greek tragedies, and the encounter with the practice of human sacrifice in the Americas triggered a complex and passionate debate in the sixteenth century which has never since abated. Contributors to this volume, leading experts from theology, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies, describe and discuss how this modern fascination for the topic of sacrifice has evolved, how it has shaped theological debate, the literary imagination, and anthropological theory. Individual chapters discuss in depth major theological trajectories, theories of sacrifice including those of Marcel Mauss and René Girard, and current feminist criticism. They engage with sacrifice in the context of religious and philosophical thought, works of literature and film. They explore different yet overlapping aspects of modernity's obsession with sacrifice. The book does not intend to impose a single narrative over all these diverse contributions but brings them into a conversation around a common centre.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385489687
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : None
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by None and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1873 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Shulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349334
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions written by David Shulman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays--by such distinguished scholars as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel--study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Old and New written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: College directory [giving the name, locality, course of study, faculty, and number of students, of 175 or more of the Principal collegiate institutions of the United States]. [Boston, Robert Bros. 1872-74]
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old and New written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Quinney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035249
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)
Download or read book William Blake on Self and Soul written by Laura Quinney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist. In William Blake on Self and Soul, Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.Blake’s central topic, Quinney shows us, is a contemporary one: the discomfiture of being a self or subject. The greater the insecurity of the “I” Blake believed, the more it tries to swell into a false but mighty “Selfhood.” And the larger the Selfhood bulks, the lonelier it grows. But why is that so? How is the illusion of “Selfhood” created? What damage does it do? How can one break its hold? These questions lead Blake to some of his most original thinking.Quinney contends that Blake’s hostility toward empiricism and Enlightenment philosophy is based on a penetrating psychological critique: Blake demonstrates that the demystifying science of empiricism deepens the self’s incoherence to itself. Though Blake formulates a therapy for the bewilderment of the self, as he goes on he perceives greater and greater obstacles to the remaking of subjectivity. By showing us this progression, Quinney shows us a Blake for our time.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought. (Discourses delivered in Boston, at Hollis-Street Church.). written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanna Melin Schyllert
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031404238
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. written by Sanna Melin Schyllert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the modernist experiment with pronoun use informs the treatment of acts of sacrifice in the texts, understood both as acts of self-renunciation and as ritual performance. It also suggests that sacrifice, if the conditions are right, can serve as the structure upon which a cohesive community might be built. The book offers in-depth analyses of the three authors and their works, deftly dissecting the modernist narrative experiment to show that it was by no means limited — it was a means by which to approach a wide range of stories and materials.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335536
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society.
Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834599
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 written by Morag Shiach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. There is a critical tradition in literary and historical studies that sees the impact of modernity on human labour in terms of intensification and alienation. Shiach, however, explores a series of efforts to articulate the relations between labour and selfhood within modernism. Through readings of Sylvia Pankhurst and D. H. Lawrence, Shiach shows how labour underpins the political and textual innovations of the period. This study will be of interest to literary and cultural scholars alike.
