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Watching Babylon

Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134290950
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Watching Babylon written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media. Mirzoeff shows how the endless stream of images flowing from the Gulf has necessitated a new form of visual thinking, one which recognises that the war has turned images themselves into weapons. Drawing connections between the history and legend of ancient Babylon, the metaphorical Babylon of Western modernity, and everyday life in the modern suburb of Babylon, New York, Mirzoeff explores ancient concerns which have found new resonance in the present day. In the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Watching Babylon illuminates the Western experience of the Iraqi war and makes us re-examine the very way we look at images of conflict.

War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment

Author : Rikke Schubart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786435585
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment written by Rikke Schubart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. These essays examine the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives. Key topics include how war is used as an imaginary site to stage dramas; how boundaries between war, media, and entertainment dissolve as new media alters the formal qualities of representation; how entertainment is used to engage audiences; and what effect products of war and entertainment have on consumers of popular culture.

The Kingdom of the Beast and the End of the World

Author : J. C. Alexander
Publisher : RevelationStation.com
ISBN 13 : 9781932124538
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of the Beast and the End of the World written by J. C. Alexander and published by RevelationStation.com. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative, bold and different. The final word on prophecy. Written in everyday language. It's not often that a book comes along that causes you to reexamine everything that you have ever learned on a particular subject. In a manner reminiscent of The Prayer of Jabez and The Purpose Driven Live, The Kingdom of the Beast takes you on a journey of enlightenment that will leave you satisfied that you finally understood what the end time prophecies are all about. There are no magic formulas for interpreting the prophecies other than accepting what is written. This book convincingly, and scripturally, moves the reader beyond some of the traditional man made ideas that have confused the Church and kept it from coming to a unified understanding of the prophecies, and then opens things up witha down to earth simplicity.

Spectacle Culture and American Identity 1815–1940

Author : S. Tenneriello
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137360623
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Spectacle Culture and American Identity 1815–1940 written by S. Tenneriello and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national landscape, Tenneriello examines how spectacle is entrenched in the formation of national identity.

Keeping Watch in Babylon

Author : Johannes Haubold
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004397760
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Keeping Watch in Babylon written by Johannes Haubold and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th–1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Family Bible Study Series

Author : Eric C. Dohrmann
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973660342
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Family Bible Study Series written by Eric C. Dohrmann and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Revelation will help you understand not only the contents of Revelation but also in the context of biblical prophecy. It is written in easy-to-read and understand language. It is exciting to grasp the meaning of this book of the Bible and its relevance for our day and age and the days to come. Studying from the original Greek language also brings out important insights and meanings of words that help explain the passages being read with a better understanding of the book as a whole. The commentary closes with in-depth description of the New Jerusalem to come with its beautiful foundation wall and stones that are given to us to understand in its design, giving the believer in Jesus everything to look forward to in eternity with God. You will find a complete listing of the books in The Family Bible Studies Series in the back of this book. Enjoy finding the discoveries and benefits for individual and family Bible study in The Family Bible Studies Series.

Spectacles of Empire

Author : Christopher A. Frilingos
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812238222
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Spectacles of Empire written by Christopher A. Frilingos and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-10-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reads the Book of Revelation as a text firmly situated in the world of imperial Roman Asia Minor, where it was written. He argues that Revelation is a Christian version of that world, complete with its own gladiatorial combats and other public spectacles.

The Book of Revelation For Dummies

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111805086X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Revelation For Dummies written by Richard Wagner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you baffled by the Book of Revelation? Understand the purpose, key themes, and symbolism of the most fascinating book in the Bible with The Book of Revelation For Dummies, an easy-to-understand guide that will help you grasp the enduring messages of Revelation and apply them to your life. You will understand what Revelation says about the past, present, and future, and how it relates to the rest of the Bible. You will learn how this mysterious book of the Bible fits into a historical context. You’ll discover all kinds of interesting facts about the apostle John and learn about the details of his world. You will be able to choose a perspective for interpreting this book of the Bible and decipher the many haunting symbols. There is no need to read this reference guide from cover to cover; simply browse the table of contents or flip through the pages to find the answers and assistance that you need. Discover how to: Interpret the prophecy of the Revelation Place it in historical context Understand how it relates to other books in the Bible Unravel the details of the apostle John’s life and world Choose a perspective for understanding See the grander scheme of things Complete with lists of the ten most commonly asked questions about end times and the ten rules of thumb for interpreting scripture, The Book of Revelation For Dummies will help you understand and decode one of the most perplexing books in the Bible!

Farewell to Visual Studies

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271075724
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Visual Studies written by James Elkins and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about art. This fifth and final volume in the series focuses on the identity, nature, and future of visual studies, discussing critical questions about its history, objects, and methods. The contributors question the canon of literature of visual studies and the place of visual studies with relation to theories of vision, visuality, epistemology, politics, and art history, giving voice to a variety of inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. Rather than dismissing visual studies, as its provocative title might suggest, this volume aims to engage a critical discussion of the state of visual studies today, how it might move forward, and what it might leave behind to evolve in productive ways. The contributors are Emmanuel Alloa, Nell Andrew, Linda Báez Rubí, Martin A. Berger, Hans Dam Christensen, Isabelle Decobecq, Bernhard J. Dotzler, Johanna Drucker, James Elkins, Michele Emmer, Yolaine Escande, Gustav Frank, Theodore Gracyk, Asbjørn Grønstad, Stephan Günzel, Charles W. Haxthausen, Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro, Tom Holert, Kıvanç Kılınç, Charlotte Klonk, Tirza True Latimer, Mark Linder, Sunil Manghani, Anna Notaro, Julia Orell, Mark Reinhardt, Vanessa R. Schwartz, Bernd Stiegler, Øyvind Vågnes, Sjoukje van der Meulen, Terri Weissman, Lisa Zaher, and Marta Zarzycka.

Islamic Liberation Theology

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135982961
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Liberation Theology written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. The West is no longer a unified actor and Islam is ideologically depleted in its confrontation with colonialism. Rather we are seeing the emergence of the US as a lone superpower, and a confrontation between a form of imperial globalized capital and the rising need for a new Islamic theodicy. The combination of political salience and theoretical force makes Islamic Liberation Theology a cornerstone of a whole new generation of thinking about political Islamism and a compelling read for anyone interested in contemporary Islam, current affairs and US foreign policy. Dabashi drives his well-supported and thoroughly documented points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style.

Stormy Weather

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251393
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Stormy Weather written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By far the single most important account and analysis of the Katrina catastrophe." David L. Clark, McMaster University In his newest provocative book, prominent social critic Henry A. Giroux shows how the tragedy and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina signals a much larger crisis in the United States-one that threatens the very nature of individual freedom and inclusive democracy. This crisis extends far beyond matters of leadership, governance, or the Bush administration. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart of democracy and must be understood within a broader set of antidemocratic forces that not only made the social disaster underlying Katrina possible, but also contribute to an emerging authoritarianism in the United States. Questions regarding who is going to die and who is going to live are driving a new form of authoritarianism in the United States. Within this form of "dirty democracy" a new and more insidious set of forces-embedded in our global economy-have largely given up on the sanctity of human life, rendering some groups as disposable and privileging others. Giroux offers up a vision of hope that creates the conditions for multiple collective and global struggles that refuse to use politics as an act of war and markets as the measure of democracy. Making human beings superfluous is the essence of totalitarianism, and democracy is the antidote in urgent need of being reclaimed. Katrina will keep the hope of such a struggle alive because for many of us the images of those floating bodies serve as a desperate reminder of what it means when justice, as the lifeblood of democracy, becomes cold and indifferent.

Looking Beyond Borderlines

Author : Lee Rodney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317552741
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Looking Beyond Borderlines written by Lee Rodney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.

Globalization and the Study of Education

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144433431X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and the Study of Education written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Society for the Study of Education is an organization of education scholars, professional educators, and policymakers dedicated to the improvement of education research, policy, and practice. Founded in 1901 by a small group of distinguished educators including John Dewey, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Charles Hubbard Judd, NSSE is the oldest national educational research organization in the United States. The mission of the National Society for the Study of Education is to investigate enduring and contemporary problems, disseminate the findings of its investigations, and engage members of the education community in study and discourse around those findings for the improvement of research, policy, and practice. One important way the Society accomplishes this mission is through the publication of its two-volume yearbooks, now in their 108th year. Each volume of a yearbook deals with a separate topic of current concern to educators. With knowledgeable scholars and practitioners as contributing authors, the yearbooks are reliable and authoritative sources of information on timely educational topics. Some yearbooks have become landmark publications in the field with which they deal.

The Bible in the Public Square

Author : Mark A. Chancey
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589839838
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Bible in the Public Square written by Mark A. Chancey and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore perceptions and interpretations of scripture in American politics, identity, popular culture, and public education Essays from the perspectives of American history, the history of ideas, film studies, visual studies, cultural studies, education, and church-state studies provide essential research for those interested in the intersection of the Bible and American culture. The contributors are Yaakov Ariel, Jacques Berlinerblau, Mark A. Chancey, Rubén Dupertuis, John Fea, Shalom Goldman, Charles C. Haynes, Carol Meyers, Eric M. Meyers, David Morgan, Adele Reinhartz, and David W. Stowe. Features: Ten essays and an introduction present research from professors of biblical studies, Judaism, English, and history Articles relevant to scholars, students, and the general public Analysis of the tensions in American society regarding the Bible and its role in public life.

Habakkuk before Breakfast

Author : Brian J. Walsh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532692951
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Habakkuk before Breakfast written by Brian J. Walsh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These liturgies, written in the language of longing and lament, in the voices Brian Walsh's community, call us to engage with the words of Habakkuk, and with the prophets and poets of our time. These words, forged in shared experience, in joy and pain, call us to join in the radical resistance of sitting and eating in midst of a bewildering age." --Mark Wallace, Christian Reformed Church Campus Ministry Leader "Habakkuk Before Breakfast is like no other book on the prophet. That's because it is, itself, prophecy - and poetry, and preaching, and prayer, and liturgy, and lament, and a dozen other things melded together into a powerful, and powerfully disturbing, whole. A book to shake us up and make us realize that God's loving justice is the only firm on which anyone--or any society--can stand." --N.T. Wright, University of St. Andrews

Song of Exile

Author : David W. Stowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190466855
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Song of Exile written by David W. Stowe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oft-referenced and frequently set to music, Psalm 137 - which begins "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion" - has become something of a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world. It has been a top single more than once in the 20th century, from Don McLean's haunting Anglo-American folk cover to Boney M's West Indian disco mix. In Song of Exile, David Stowe uses a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach that combines personal interviews, historical overview, and textual analysis to demonstrate the psalm's enduring place in popular culture. The line that begins Psalm 137 - one of the most lyrical of the Hebrew Bible - has been used since its genesis to evoke the grief and protest of exiled, displaced, or marginalized communities. Despite the psalm's popularity, little has been written about its reception during the more than 2,500 years since the Babylonian exile. Stowe locates its use in the American Revolution and the Civil Rights movement, and internationally by anti-colonial Jamaican Rastafari and immigrants from Ireland, Korea, and Cuba. He studies musical references ranging from the Melodians' Rivers of Babylon to the score in Kazakh film Tulpan. Stowe concludes by exploring the presence and absence in modern culture of the often-ignored final words: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Usually excised from liturgy and forgotten by scholars, Stowe finds these words echoed in modern occurrences of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and more generally in the culture of vengeance that has existed in North America from the earliest conflicts with Native Americans. Based on numerous interviews with musicians, theologians, and writers, Stowe reconstructs the rich and varied reception history of this widely used, yet mysterious, text.