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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968324
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Sacred Display written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Robbins Dexter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604976748
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Sacred Display written by Miriam Robbins Dexter and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures, from the Near East and Asia, and throughout ancient Europe; in prehistoric and early historic iconography, their magical qualities are often indicated by a magical dance or stance. It is a look at female display figures both cross-culturally and cross-temporally, through texts and iconography, beginning with figures depicted in very early Neolithic Anatolia, early and middle Neolithic southeast Europe--Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia--continuing through the late Neolithic in East Asia, and into early historic Greece, India, and Ireland, and elsewhere across the world. These very similar female figures were depicted in Anatolia, Europe, Southern Asia, and East Asia, in a broad chronological sweep, beginning with the pre-pottery Neolithic, ca. 9000 BCE, and existing from the beginning of the second millennium of this era up to the present era. This book demonstrates the extraordinary similarities, in a broad geographic range, of depictions and descriptions of magical female figures who give fertility and strength to the peoples of their cultures by means of their magical erotic powers. This book uniquely contains translations of texts which describe these ancient female figures, from a multitude of Indo-European, Near Eastern, and East Asian works, a feat only possible given the authors' formidable combined linguistic expertise in over thirty languages. The book contains many photographs of these geographically different, but functionally and artistically similar, female figures. Many current books (academic and otherwise) explore some of the female figures the authors discuss in their book, but such a wide-ranging cross-cultural and cross-temporal view of this genre of female figures has never been undertaken until now. The "sexual" display of these female figures reflects the huge numinosity of the prehistoric divine feminine, and of her magical genitalia. The functions of fertility and apotropaia, which count among the functions of the early historic display and dancing figures, grow out of this numinosity and reflect the belief in and honoring of the powers of the ancient divine feminine.
Author : Glenn Peers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047485
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium written by Glenn Peers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
Author : Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458722066
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Reinventing the Sacred written by Stuart A. Kauffman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...
Author : Aníbal González
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983028
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book In Search of the Sacred Book written by Aníbal González and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781795767
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Sensing Sacred Texts written by James Washington Watts and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.
Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481304900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Sacred Terror written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060422
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Sacred Possessions written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
Author : Robert S. McPherson
Publisher : Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sacred Land, Sacred View written by Robert S. McPherson and published by Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic geographical formations tower over the Four Corners country in the southwestern United States. The mountains, cliffs, and sandstone spires, familiar landmarks for anglo travelers, orient Navajos both physically and spiritually. In Sacred Land, Sacred View, Robert McPherson describes the mythological significance of these landmarks. Navajos read their environment as a spiritual text: the gods created the physical world to help, teach, and protect people through an integrated system of beliefs represented in nature. The author observes that the Middle East is of "no greater import to Christians than the Dine's holy land is to Navajos." He continues: "Sacred mountains circumscribe the land, containing the junction of the San Juan River and Mancos Creek, where Born for Water invoked supernatural aid to overcome danger and death and where, at the Bear's Ears formation, good triumphed over evil." The more one learns about the Dine, the more one inevitably admires their way of perceiving and interpreting what lies just beyond the focus of human vision. Their renowned respect for nature and way of living in harmony with the environment derive from their religious traditions.
Author : Zur Shalev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209387
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sacred Words and Worlds written by Zur Shalev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the scholarly genre of 'geographia sacra' in early modern Europe, tracing its contours, the outlooks and concerns of its practitioners, as well as the intersections of religion and geography in an age that saw dramatic revolutions in both fields.
Author : Betsy Reed
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560254508
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Nothing Sacred written by Betsy Reed and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.
Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426203367
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Sacred Places of a Lifetime written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Author : M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616178
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space written by M. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.
Author : James W. Watts
Publisher : Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts
ISBN 13 : 9781781798843
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings written by James W. Watts and published by Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts. This book was released on 2020 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.
Author : Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886229
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Sacred Power, Sacred Space written by Jeanne Halgren Kilde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function of church buildings is to represent and reify three different types of power: divine power, or ideas about God; personal empowerment as manifested in the individual's perceived relationship to the divine; and social power, meaning the relationships between groups such as clergy and laity. Each type intersects with notions of Christian creed, cult, and code, and is represented spatially and materially in church buildings. Kilde explores these categories chronologically, from the early church to the twentieth century. She considers the form, organization, and use of worship rooms; the location of churches; and the interaction between churches and the wider culture. Church buildings have been integral to Christianity, and Kilde's important study sheds new light on the way they impact all aspects of the religion. Neither mere witnesses to transformations of religious thought or nor simple backgrounds for religious practice, church buildings are, in Kilde's view, dynamic participants in religious change and goldmines of information on Christianity itself.
Author : Nathaniel Altman
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587680130
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Sacred Water written by Nathaniel Altman and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a variety of religious teachings, anthropological evidence and myths and legends from around the world, this book examines how the essential element water plays a vital role in all aspects of our spiritual lives.
Author : Gloria Pungetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139510126
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Sacred Species and Sites written by Gloria Pungetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is being increasingly recognised that cultural and biological diversity are deeply linked and that conservation programmes should take into account the ethical, cultural and spiritual values of nature. With contributions from a range of scholars, practitioners and spiritual leaders from around the world, this book provides new insights into biocultural diversity conservation. It explores sacred landscapes, sites, plants and animals from around the world to demonstrate the links between nature conservation and spiritual beliefs and traditions. Key conceptual topics are connected to case studies, as well as modern and ancient spiritual insights, guiding the reader through the various issues from fundamental theory and beliefs to practical applications. It looks forward to the biocultural agenda, providing guidelines for future research and practice and offering suggestions for improved integration of these values into policy, planning and management.
