Author: Larry Boales
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462856608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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The Wrath of a Shaman
Author: Larry Boales
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462856608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462856608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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The Shaman's Wolf
Author: Michael Causey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456829068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456829068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
After the Wrath of God
Author: Anthony M. Petro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199391297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the seemingly ever-expanding crisis. The minister's words and actions were met with a standing ovation from the overflowing audience, but he could not linger to enjoy their applause. Having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately upon finishing his sermon. Such was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the 1980s. In After the Wrath of God, Anthony Petro vividly narrates the religious history of AIDS in America. Delving into the culture wars over sex, morality, and the future of the American nation, he demonstrates how religious leaders and AIDS activists have shaped debates over sexual morality and public health from the 1980s to the present day. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, Petro takes a much broader view, encompassing the range of mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Catholic groups--alongside AIDS activist organizations--that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and care in the U.S. Petro analyzes how the AIDS crisis prompted American Christians across denominations and political persuasions to speak publicly about sexuality--especially homosexuality--and to foster a moral discourse on sex that spoke not only to personal concerns but to anxieties about the health of the nation. He reveals how the epidemic increased efforts to advance a moral agenda regarding the health benefits of abstinence and monogamy, a legacy glimpsed as much in the traction gained by abstinence education campaigns as in the more recent cultural purchase of gay marriage. The first book to detail the history of religion and the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., After the Wrath of God is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and public health.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199391297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a sermon about AIDS, dramatizing the need for the church to confront the seemingly ever-expanding crisis. The minister's words and actions were met with a standing ovation from the overflowing audience, but he could not linger to enjoy their applause. Having received threats in advance of the service, he dashed out of the sanctuary immediately upon finishing his sermon. Such was the climate for religious AIDS activism in the 1980s. In After the Wrath of God, Anthony Petro vividly narrates the religious history of AIDS in America. Delving into the culture wars over sex, morality, and the future of the American nation, he demonstrates how religious leaders and AIDS activists have shaped debates over sexual morality and public health from the 1980s to the present day. While most attention to religion and AIDS foregrounds the role of the Religious Right, Petro takes a much broader view, encompassing the range of mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Catholic groups--alongside AIDS activist organizations--that shaped public discussions of AIDS prevention and care in the U.S. Petro analyzes how the AIDS crisis prompted American Christians across denominations and political persuasions to speak publicly about sexuality--especially homosexuality--and to foster a moral discourse on sex that spoke not only to personal concerns but to anxieties about the health of the nation. He reveals how the epidemic increased efforts to advance a moral agenda regarding the health benefits of abstinence and monogamy, a legacy glimpsed as much in the traction gained by abstinence education campaigns as in the more recent cultural purchase of gay marriage. The first book to detail the history of religion and the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., After the Wrath of God is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and public health.
The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States
Author: Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319516957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1721
Book Description
This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of humans, as both an animal and a consciously aware being, underpins the analysis presented. Part One covers tribes. It uses anthropological literature to describe the “campfire democracy” of the African Bushmen, the Pygmies, and other band societies. Its main focus is on the tribal democracy of the Cheyenne, Iroquois, Huron, and other tribes, and it pays special attention to the role of women in tribal democracies. Part Two describes the city-states of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia, and includes a section on the theocracy of the Jews. This part focuses on the transition from tribal democracy to city-state democracy in the ancient Middle East – from the Sumerian city-states to the Phoenician. Part Three focuses on the origins of democracy and covers Greece—Mycenaean, Dorian, and the Golden Age. It presents a detailed description of the tribal democracy of Archaic Greece – emphasizing the causal effect of the hoplite-phalanx military formation in egalitarianizing Greek tribal society. Next, it analyses the transition from tribal to city-state democracy—with the new commercial classes engendering the oligarchic and democratic conflicts described by Plato and Aristotle. Part Four describes the Norse tribes as they contacted Rome, the rise of kingships, the renaissance of the city-states, and the parliamentary monarchies of the emerging nation-states. It provides details of the rise of commercial city states in Renaissance Italy, Hanseatic Germany and the Netherlands.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319516957
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1721
Book Description
This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of humans, as both an animal and a consciously aware being, underpins the analysis presented. Part One covers tribes. It uses anthropological literature to describe the “campfire democracy” of the African Bushmen, the Pygmies, and other band societies. Its main focus is on the tribal democracy of the Cheyenne, Iroquois, Huron, and other tribes, and it pays special attention to the role of women in tribal democracies. Part Two describes the city-states of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia, and includes a section on the theocracy of the Jews. This part focuses on the transition from tribal democracy to city-state democracy in the ancient Middle East – from the Sumerian city-states to the Phoenician. Part Three focuses on the origins of democracy and covers Greece—Mycenaean, Dorian, and the Golden Age. It presents a detailed description of the tribal democracy of Archaic Greece – emphasizing the causal effect of the hoplite-phalanx military formation in egalitarianizing Greek tribal society. Next, it analyses the transition from tribal to city-state democracy—with the new commercial classes engendering the oligarchic and democratic conflicts described by Plato and Aristotle. Part Four describes the Norse tribes as they contacted Rome, the rise of kingships, the renaissance of the city-states, and the parliamentary monarchies of the emerging nation-states. It provides details of the rise of commercial city states in Renaissance Italy, Hanseatic Germany and the Netherlands.
The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Author: Barbara Tedlock, Ph.D.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307571637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today. Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock–herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing–explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, and offers a dazzling array of evidence, from prehistoric African rock art to modern Mongolian ceremonies, for women’s shamanic powers. Tedlock combines firsthand accounts of her own training among the Maya of Guatemala with the rich record of women warriors and hunters, spiritual guides, and prophets from many cultures and times. Probing the practices that distinguish female shamanism from the much better known male traditions, she reveals: • The key role of body wisdom and women’s eroticism in shamanic trance and ecstasy • The female forms of dream witnessing, vision questing, and use of hallucinogenic drugs • Shamanic midwifery and the spiritual powers released in childbirth and monthly female cycles • Shamanic symbolism in weaving and other feminine arts • Gender shifting and male-female partnership in shamanic practice Filled with illuminating stories and illustrations, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body restores women to their essential place in the history of spirituality and celebrates their continuing role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism today.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307571637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today. Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women. This is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock–herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing–explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, and offers a dazzling array of evidence, from prehistoric African rock art to modern Mongolian ceremonies, for women’s shamanic powers. Tedlock combines firsthand accounts of her own training among the Maya of Guatemala with the rich record of women warriors and hunters, spiritual guides, and prophets from many cultures and times. Probing the practices that distinguish female shamanism from the much better known male traditions, she reveals: • The key role of body wisdom and women’s eroticism in shamanic trance and ecstasy • The female forms of dream witnessing, vision questing, and use of hallucinogenic drugs • Shamanic midwifery and the spiritual powers released in childbirth and monthly female cycles • Shamanic symbolism in weaving and other feminine arts • Gender shifting and male-female partnership in shamanic practice Filled with illuminating stories and illustrations, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body restores women to their essential place in the history of spirituality and celebrates their continuing role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism today.
Shamans of the 20th Century
Author: Ruth-Inge Heinze
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829024593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"In Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the shama at a time when we in the West are questioning both our ways of knowing and medical practice. A pioneering work, hers is a much needed synthesis between third-world and primal people's holistic understanding of healing as embracing the total human condition-social, emotional, psychological as well as physical, and the radically innovative stance of Western New Age healers. Elinor W. Gadon" -- Back cover.
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780829024593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"In Shamans of the 20th Century, anthropologist Ruth-Inge Heinze takes a critical look at the global re-emergence of the shaman in the late twentieth century, redefiing the role of the shama at a time when we in the West are questioning both our ways of knowing and medical practice. A pioneering work, hers is a much needed synthesis between third-world and primal people's holistic understanding of healing as embracing the total human condition-social, emotional, psychological as well as physical, and the radically innovative stance of Western New Age healers. Elinor W. Gadon" -- Back cover.
The Elves of Owl's Head Mountain
Author: Jamie Sutliff
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456601717
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Y/A fantasy series, 3 books based on Native American beliefs in magic. Books 1 and 2 are illustrated with black and white chapter drawings. The books are for ages 8 to 18.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456601717
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Y/A fantasy series, 3 books based on Native American beliefs in magic. Books 1 and 2 are illustrated with black and white chapter drawings. The books are for ages 8 to 18.
Kamarathin: Kingdom of Tursh
Author: Jason Yarnell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578013363
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Kamarathin: Kingdom of Tursh is the first world book published for D3 Games flagship game world of Kamarathin. Kamarathin is a low/dark fantasy game world dedicated towards the Hero System by HERO Games but easily adaptable to any game system.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578013363
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Kamarathin: Kingdom of Tursh is the first world book published for D3 Games flagship game world of Kamarathin. Kamarathin is a low/dark fantasy game world dedicated towards the Hero System by HERO Games but easily adaptable to any game system.
Journal of American Folklore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Day the Sky Shattered
Author: Stephen G. Levy
Publisher: Stephen G. Levy
ISBN: 1386334901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
SOUL MATES LEARN THAT THEIR LOVE IS FOREVER! Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance After the destruction of the creatures that attacked Juneau, a new Old Soul is created by the Great Spirit. Banks Blackhorse and his new soul mate need to destroy the EVIL before it destroys Juneau, AK. 5 out of 5 STARS Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite "The writing is superb. The plot is something that Stephen King might come up with. The characters are simply unforgettable and they keep the story racing along."
Publisher: Stephen G. Levy
ISBN: 1386334901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
SOUL MATES LEARN THAT THEIR LOVE IS FOREVER! Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance After the destruction of the creatures that attacked Juneau, a new Old Soul is created by the Great Spirit. Banks Blackhorse and his new soul mate need to destroy the EVIL before it destroys Juneau, AK. 5 out of 5 STARS Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite "The writing is superb. The plot is something that Stephen King might come up with. The characters are simply unforgettable and they keep the story racing along."