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Author : Heward Grafftey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Senseless Sacrifice written by Heward Grafftey and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticism of the medical profession in Canada.
Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822475
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Science of Sacrifice written by Susan L. Mizruchi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern social theory, an inquiry that eventually spans historical events such as public lynchings and the political scapegoating of immigrants a century ago. The execution in Billy Budd Sailor, the death of Du Bois's first-born son in The Souls of Black Folk, Henry James's preoccupation with renunciation and scapegoating, and the self-denying working classes of Norris and Stein all illustrate repeated stagings of sacrificial rituals from a Biblical past. For Mizruchi, the peculiar persistence of this aesthetic construct becomes a guide to a rich theological and social-scientific tradition distinctive to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and including such influential works as Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, Frazer's Golden Bough, and Ross's Sin and Society. The major features of sacrifice--its original association with spiritual doubt, its function as a form of spiritual economics that sustained divisions between the fortunate and the bereft, and its role in fixing boundaries between aliens and kin--held strong symbolic value for writers struggling to reconcile faith with rationalism, and communal coherence with capitalist expansion. Mizruchi eloquently demonstrates how the conceptual power of sacrifice made it a key mediator of cultural change, from the decline of sympathy and the significance of "race" in an emerging multicultural society to the revival of maternal self-sacrifice.
Author : Jon Pahl
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814768954
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Empire of Sacrifice written by Jon Pahl and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.
Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474288
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as: Max Reinhardt's new people's theatre the mass spectacles of post-revolutionary Russia American Zionist pageants the Olympic Games. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of such performances, Fischer-Lichte expertly demonstrates how theatre and ritual are fused in order to tackle the problem of community-building in societies characterised by loss of solidarity and disintegration, and exposes the provocative connection between the utopian visions of community they suggest, and the notion of sacrifice. This innovative study of twentieth-century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history.
Author : Martin K. Ettington
Publisher : Martin K. Ettington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Suppression of Truth in the United States and the World written by Martin K. Ettington and published by Martin K. Ettington. This book was released on with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s world we live in a culture of truth suppression. This is true in representative democracies like the United States as well as full totalitarian dictatorships like Communist China. This book covers many areas of major lies like Global Warming, perverted doctrines taught in schools, Politics, News Suppression, Communist China, limitations in Spirituality, deficit spending, and problems with globalism. There are many different types of truth suppression and as much as we would like to think that we live in an advanced culture and world, this effort by different entities to suppress truth affects our lives negatively in many ways. The most direct effect is that we live in fear of the future of our world which is a big lie. This suppression also keeps us from fully realizing our spiritual natures and that we do have the ability to accomplish amazing things when we live with full honesty in our lives. I believe that individuals are closest to a state of happiness when they live their lives in truth. (See my book “A New Paradigm of Truth and Happiness” for more information.) There are actions we can take to correct this situation but they are mass actions which need many persons involved to have a real effect. A list of these actions are given later in this book.
Author : Daena Aki Funahashi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501768107
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Untimely Sacrifices written by Daena Aki Funahashi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the point of pathological stress? Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on pressure, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress. Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare.
Author : Richard von Schirach
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908323868
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Night of the Physicists written by Richard von Schirach and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this quiet setting – Farm Hall, near Cambridge – that the interned physicists first heard of the attack on Hiroshima. Aside from changing the course of history, that night was also one of great shock and personal defeat for the physicists – they were under the assumption that they alone had discovered nuclear fission. This is the story of Nazi Germany’s hunt for a nuclear bomb. It is a tale of the genius and guilt of lauded, respected scientists.
Author : George Esenwein
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535864214
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: Interwar Crises: The Case of Spain's Civil War written by George Esenwein and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: Interwar Crises: The Case of Spain's Civil War is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Author : Walter Herron Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book General Lee written by Walter Herron Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agrippa Nelson Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sanitarian written by Agrippa Nelson Bell and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Sanitarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Kellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108304842
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book My Opposition written by Friedrich Kellner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to dictatorship and genocide and to protest his countrymen's complicity in the regime's brutalities. Just one month into the war he is aware that Jews are marked for extermination and later records how soldiers on leave spoke openly about the mass murder of Jews and the murder of POWs; he also documents the Gestapo's merciless rule at home from euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped and mentally ill to the execution of anyone found listening to foreign broadcasts. This essential testimony of everyday life under the Third Reich is accompanied by a foreword by Alan Steinweis and the remarkable story of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich's grandson.
Author : Charles King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Knight of Columbia written by Charles King and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Generalleutnant Hermann Plocher
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787206041
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942 written by Generalleutnant Hermann Plocher and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942, written by Generalleutnant Hermann Plocher, revised and edited by Mr. Harry Fletcher, and first published in 1966, is one of a series of historical studies written for the United States Air Force Historical Division by men who had been key officers in the German Air Force during World War II. The overall purpose of the series is twofold: 1) To provide the United States Air Force with a comprehensive and, insofar as possible, authoritative history of a major air force which suffered defeat in World War II, a history prepared by many of the principal and responsible leaders of that air force; 2) to provide a firsthand account of that air force’s unique combat in a major war, especially its fight against the forces of the Soviet Union. This series of studies therefore covers in large part virtually all phases of the Luftwaffe’s operations and organization, from its camouflaged origin in the Reichswehr, during the period of secret German rearmament following World War I, through its participation in the Spanish Civil War and its massive operations and final defeat in World War II, with particular attention to the air war on the Eastern Front. This work, volume two of a series, is devoted to a descriptive account, in some parts in great detail, of German aerial operations in the Eastern Theater of Operations during 1942.
Author : Otto Carius
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729116
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Tigers in the Mud written by Otto Carius and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever take a Tiger into battle, destroying well over 150 enemy tanks during his incredible career.
Author : Helena P. Schrader PhD
Publisher : Cross Seas Press
ISBN 13 : 1735313939
Total Pages : 1493 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Traitors for the Sake of Humanity written by Helena P. Schrader PhD and published by Cross Seas Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 1493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They opposed Hitler's diabolical regime on moral grounds. They sought to defend human dignity and restore the rule of law -- at the risk of their own lives. Traitors to Hitler, they were heroes to the oppressed. They remain an inspiration to anyone fighting against immoral and corrupt governments anywhere in the world. Adolf Hitler seems to have captivated all of Germany, yet even as one Nazi victory follows another, individuals with integrity and compassion remain opposed to him, his regime and all it stands for. People like Philip, Alexandra, and Marianne. They feel isolated and hopeless until they discover each other -- and learn that their concerns are shared by men in the very highest places in the German High Command.... Helena P. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg, which she earned with a ground-breaking dissertation about General Friedrich Olbricht, a leading member of the German Resistance to Hitler. Her research entailed extensive primary and secondary research in what was then East and West Germany, including interviews with over one hundred survivors of Nazi Germany. Helena later served as an American diplomat in Europe and Africa. Her historical novels have collectively won more than twenty literary awards, including Best Biography 2017 and Best Historical Fiction 2020. In addition, she is the author of non-fiction books on women in aviation, the Berlin Airlift, the German Resistance and the crusades.
Author : Ethelyn Leslie Huston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Towers of Ilium written by Ethelyn Leslie Huston and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
