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Book Synopsis Servants of the Goddess by : Catherine Rubin Kermorgant
Download or read book Servants of the Goddess written by Catherine Rubin Kermorgant and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Servants of the Goddess weaves together the heartbreaking, yet paradoxically life-affirming stories of five devadasis—women, in the clutches of an ancient fertility cult, forced to serve the gods. Catherine Rubin Kermorgant sets out attempting to make a documentary film about the lives of present-day devadasis. Through her, we meet and get to know the devadasi women of Kalyana, a remote village in Karnataka. As they grow to trust Kermorgant and welcome her as an honorary sister, we hear their stories in their own words: stories of oppression, discrimination, violence and, most importantly, resilience. Kermorgant becomes a part of these stories and finds herself unwittingly enmeshed in a world of gender and caste bias which extends far beyond Kalyana—all the way to Paris, where the documentary is to be edited and produced. Servants of the Goddess is a testament to women’s strength and spirit, and a remarkably astute analysis of gender and caste relations in today’s rural India.
Book Synopsis On Being a Servant of God by : Warren W. Wiersbe
Download or read book On Being a Servant of God written by Warren W. Wiersbe and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes people lose sight of the core of their ministry. They feel overwhelmed by the needs that surround them on a daily basis. Wise and beloved pastor Warren Wiersbe invites ministry leaders to listen in on thirty short "armchair chats" to encourage and strengthen them for service. He shares what he wishes he had known about ministering to others when he began his own Christian pilgrimage. "Ministry," he says, "takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God." With this new edition of a classic book, which includes a foreword by Jim Cymbala, the next generation of ministry leaders can take advantage of Wiersbe's years of wisdom.
Book Synopsis Servants Of The Goddess by : Christopher John Fuller
Download or read book Servants Of The Goddess written by Christopher John Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Servant of God written by Swami Ramdas and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before have all the various facets of the teachings of Swami Ramdas (1884-1963) been brought together in one comprehensive volume.Like a beautiful multicoloured garland of fragrant flowers, Servant of God is a collection of extracts from the writings of Ramdas that are arranged under 101 chapter headings.The very phrases of Ramdas form the chapter headings which range from Aboration of the Lord` to Zoroaster Taught the Suzerainty of God .
Book Synopsis Servants of the Goddess by : C. J. Fuller
Download or read book Servants of the Goddess written by C. J. Fuller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Minaksi Temple is one of the largest, most celebrated and most popular Hindu temples in India. Situated in the ancient south Indian city of Madurai, it is dedicated to the goddess Minaksi and her husband the god Sundaresvara, a form of the great god Śiva. Minaksi's principal servants in the Temple are the priests who carry out all the elaborate rituals for her and Sundaresvara, and these priests are the subject of this book. Drawing upon his extensive field research in the Temple, Dr Fuller discusses the role of the priests in the Temple and their place in the wider society. He looks at their rights and duties in the Temple, and at the changes in their position that have occurred since the establishment of a modern government and legal system. Throughout his book, the author situates his detailed analysis of the Minaksi Temple priesthood within its wider social and historical context, and relates it to the previous work of anthropologists, as well as of historians, Sanskritists and legal scholars.
Download or read book Fury's Goddess written by Alex Archer and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outskirts of the recently developed and prosperous city of Hyderabad, India, a new and luxurious housing complex has arisen. But several residents have been found brutally murdered. Some believe the killer is a rogue tiger. Others whisper that it is the work of the servants of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death.
Book Synopsis Given to the Goddess by : Lucinda Ramberg
Download or read book Given to the Goddess written by Lucinda Ramberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.
Book Synopsis Nityasumangali by : Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story
Download or read book Nityasumangali written by Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author has first investigated the concept of the devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India, especialy in Tamil Nadu. Hereafter the function and form of the devadasi tradition are examined within the Temple Ritual of Tamil Nadu. This is not the study of the fact of the devadasi tradition, but of its meaning and the mode of production of that meaning.
Book Synopsis Goddesses #1: Heaven Sent by : Clea Hantman
Download or read book Goddesses #1: Heaven Sent written by Clea Hantman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thalia persuades her sisters, Muses Era and Polly, to help her avoid an arranged marriage, but their plan goes awry and Zeus sends the girls to Earth--only instead of arriving in ancient Athens, Greece, they arrive in modern Athens, Georgia.
Book Synopsis Before We Visit the Goddess by : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Download or read book Before We Visit the Goddess written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--
Book Synopsis Black God by : Dr. Supreme Understanding
Download or read book Black God written by Dr. Supreme Understanding and published by Supreme Design Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Book of the Righteous 5E by : Aaron Loeb
Download or read book Book of the Righteous 5E written by Aaron Loeb and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive tomes provides more than 20 pick-up-and-play churches, whose organization and beliefs are described in lavish detail. These churches can be used in any campaign setting to bring a whole new level of detail to the religious characters. Plus, for those who don't have a complete cosmology in their game, The Book of the Righteous provides a comprehensive mythology that unifies all of the gods in the book.
Book Synopsis Goddess of the Market by : Jennifer Burns
Download or read book Goddess of the Market written by Jennifer Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought. Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968. One of the Denver Post's Great Reads of 2009 One of Bloomberg News's Top Nonfiction Books of 2009 "Excellent." --Time magazine "A terrific book--a serious consideration of Rand's ideas, and her role in the conservative movement of the past three quarters of a century." --The American Thinker "A wonderful book: beautifully written, completely balanced, extensively researched. The match between author and subject is so perfect that one might believe that the author was chosen by the gods to write this book. She has sympathy and affection for her subject but treats her as a human being, with no attempt to cover up the foibles." --Mises Economics Blog
Book Synopsis Goddess of Yesterday by : Caroline B. Cooney
Download or read book Goddess of Yesterday written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, she reinvents herself as Princess Callisto when Menelaus, great king of Sparta, lands with his men. He takes her back to Sparta with him where Helen, his beautiful wife, does not believe that the red-headed child is Princess Callisto. Although fearful of the half-mortal, half-goddess Helen, Anaxandra is able to stay out of harm’s way—until the Trojan princes Paris and Aeneas arrive. Paris and Helen’s fascination with each other soon turns to passion and plunges Sparta and Troy into war. Can Anaxandra find the courage to reinvent herself once again, appease the gods, and save herself? In Caroline B. Cooney’s epic tale of one girl’s courage and will to survive, Anaxandra learns that home is where you make it and identity goes deeper than just your name.
Book Synopsis Servant of Chaos by : Laura Greenwood
Download or read book Servant of Chaos written by Laura Greenwood and published by Draft2digital. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One slave is all it takes to turn the tide. Rhodopis has lived most of her life as a slave to the god of chaos, knowing there wasn't a way her life could have been better. But a visiting god and his priests changes all that, and she learns that there's more to life than servitude. Can she follow her heart, or is she destined to be a slave forever? - Servant of Chaos is part of the Forgotten Gods series and is Rhodopis' full story. It is based on Greco-Egyptian mythology.
Book Synopsis The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York by : Corinne G. Dempsey
Download or read book The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This profile of an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, describes how the temple combines orthodox rituals and socioreligious iconoclasm. The author uses the temple's surprising success to analyse the distinctive dynamics of Hinduism, including issues of gender, caste and community"--OCLC
Book Synopsis God's Handmaiden by : Gilbert Morris
Download or read book God's Handmaiden written by Gilbert Morris and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him grows deeper, but more hopeless, since the two are separated not just by class, but also by Davis’s love for Roberta.When Davis announces his engagement, he asks Gervase to join them as Roberta’s maid. But instead Gervase becomes a companion to Florence Nightingale and accompanies her when the Crimean War breaks out and she is asked to create a corps of nurses. On the field, Gervase crosses paths with Davis, who has become disillusioned in his marriage and is drawn to her warmth and care. Both know, however, there is nothing more for them than friendship.Upon her return to England, Gervase receives word that Davis has been seriously injured in a fall and is asked to nurse him back to health. As he regains consciousness, he reveals shocking news that plunges them both into danger.
