Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 02:03 |
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Carol L. Flinders, "Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics"
HarperCollins (2007) | English | ISBN 0061548340 | 278 pages | PDF | 2.54 MB
Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics
Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook
Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in
Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven remarkable women, Flinders brings to life a chorus of wisdom from the past that speaks with remarkable relevance to our contemporary spiritual quests.
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The Concept of the Goddess
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:49 |
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Sandra Billington & Miranda Green, "The Concept of the Goddess"
Routledge (2002) | English | ISBN 0203764625 | 210 pages | PDF | 2.20 MB
This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspect of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including Celtic, Roman, Norse, Caucasian and Japanese traditions.
Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:43 |
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Michael Giffin, "Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England" (Cross-Currents in Religion & Culture)
Palgrave Macmillan (2002) | English | ISBN 0333948084 | 239 pages | PDF | 3.24 MB
Michael Giffin offers a reading of Austen's six published novels against the background of a 'long 18th century' that stretched from the Restoration to the Regency. He demonstrates that Austen is a neoclassical author of the enlightenment who writes through the twin prisms of British Empiricism and Georgian Anglicanism.
Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia (Repost)
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:39 |
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Richard P. Taylor, "Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia"
ABC-CLIO (2000) | English | ISBN 0874369398 | 438 pages | CHM | 1.72 MB
This vast compendium of information contains hundreds of entries on the sometimes obscure, complicated, and mysterious (but always fascinating) funeral customs of dozens of cultures. Topics cover the burial and afterlife customs of China, the Greco-Roman world, India, the Near East, ancient Israel, the Iron Age Celts, Africa, Native Americans, Lapps, Islamic countries, modern Western society, and many other ancient and contemporary cultures.
On Inoculating Moral Philosophy Against God
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:30 |
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John M. Rist, "On Inoculating Moral Philosophy Against God" (The Aquinas Lecture [#64])
Marquette University Press (2000) | English | ISBN 0874621674 | 115 pages | PDF | 1.32 MB
The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture Series began at Marquette University in the Spring of 1937. Ideal for classroom use, library additions, or private collections, the Aquinas Series has received international acceptance by scholars, universities, and libraries.
Eschatological Themes in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:25 |
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Arthur Hyman, "Eschatological Themes in Medieval Jewish Philosophy" (The Aquinas Lecture [#66])
Marquette University Press (2002) | English | ISBN 0874621690 | 140 pages | PDF | 1.36 MB
The annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture Series began at Marquette University in the Spring of 1937. Ideal for classroom use, library additions, or private collections, the Aquinas Series has received international acceptance by scholars, universities, and libraries.
A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:20 |
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David Fekete, "A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality"
Algora Publishing (2003) | English | ISBN 0875862446 | 316 pages | PDF | 1.17 MB
Love between a man and a woman: is it sacred or sinful?
A Rhapsody of Love and Spirituality explores Platonic eros, Christian mysticism, friendship, religious ritual, and love as people experience it, turning up startling ironies and paradoxes and, along the way, some traditions we may find worth reclaiming.
Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 01:15 |
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Gregory E. Smoak, "Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century"
University of California Press (2006) | English | ISBN 0520246586 | 307 pages | PDF | 1.91 MB
This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks.
The Mythic Forest, the Green Man and the Spirit of Nature
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Date : 13 Jun 2008 00:52 |
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Gary R. Varner, "The Mythic Forest, the Green Man and the Spirit of Nature: The Re-emergence of the Spirit of Nature from Ancient Times into Modern Society"
Algora Publishing (2006) | English | ISBN 0875864341 | 230 pages | PDF | 2.21 MB
A delightful world tour of traditions and beliefs related to trees and forests,
The Mythic Forest highlights modern-day revivals of ancient customs and identifies the Green Man motif in American architecture, hisface peering out from behind his leaves on California banks and New York brownstone houses. The book will appeal to readers interested in folklore and legends, mythology, urban archeology, and, of course, trees and their lore.
Love Spells and Rituals
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 14:06 |
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Talismagick “Love Spells and Rituals"
Talismagick | 2000 | ISBN: N/A | 33 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
The Brill Dictionary of Religion (4 volume set)
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 11:08 |
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Kocku von Stuckrad, "The Brill Dictionary of Religion"
Brill | Revised edition (2006) | English | ISBN: 9004124330 | 2179 pages | PDF | 60 MB
The Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena.
David, Saul, and God: Rediscovering an Ancient Story
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 01:04 |
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Paul Borgman, "David, Saul, and God: Rediscovering an Ancient Story"
Oxford University Press (2008) | English | ISBN 0195331605 | 349 pages | PDF | 1.19 MB
The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colourful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. In recent years this story has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, much of it devoted to showing that David was a far less heroic character than appears on the surface.
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 00:56 |
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Maria-Zoe Petropoulou, "Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200" (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Oxford University Press (2008) | English | ISBN 0199218544 | 352 pages | PDF | 1.52 MB
A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity during the period of their interaction between about 100 BC and AD 200.
The Seer in Ancient Greece
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 00:40 |
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Michael Attyah Flower, "The Seer in Ancient Greece"
University of California Press (2008) | English | ISBN 0520252292 | 330 pages | PDF | 2.65 MB
This engaging book, the only comprehensive study of this fascinating figure, enters into the socioreligious world of ancient Greece to explore what seers did, why they were so widely employed, and how their craft served as a viable and useful social practice.
God and Mystery in Words: Experience through Metaphor and Drama
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Date : 10 Jun 2008 00:15 |
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David Brown, "God and Mystery in Words: Experience through Metaphor and Drama"
Oxford University Press (2008) | English | ISBN 0199231834 | 302 pages | PDF | 2.26 MB
In
God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today.
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