Circuits of the Sacred
Title | Circuits of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Ulises Decena |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2023-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478024070 |
In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology—the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive—as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a “circuit,” a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena’s study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.
Deep Cosmopolis
Title | Deep Cosmopolis PDF eBook |
Author | Adam K. Webb |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317486749 |
Too often, observers of globalization take for granted that the common ground across cultures is a thin layer of consumerism and perhaps human rights. If so, then anything deeper and more traditional would be placebound, and probably destined for the dustbin of history. But must this be so? Must we assume--as both liberals and traditionalists now tend to do--that one cannot be a cosmopolitan and take traditions seriously at the same time? This book offers a radically different argument about how traditions and global citizenship can meet, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time. Adam K. Webb argues that if we look back before modernity, we find a very different line of thinking about what it means to take the whole world as one’s horizon. Digging into some fascinating currents of thought and practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period, across all major civilizations, Webb is able to reveal patterns of "deep cosmopolitanism", with its logic quite unlike that of liberal globalization today. In their more cosmopolitan moments, everyone from clerics to pilgrims to empire-builders was inclined to look for deep ethical parallels—points of contact—among civilizations and traditions. Once modernity swept aside the old civilizations, however, that promise was largely forgotten. We now have an impoverished view of what it means to embrace a tradition and even what kinds of conversations across traditions are possible. In part two, Webb draws out the lessons of deep cosmopolitanism for our own time. If revived, it has something to say about everything from the rise of new non-Western powers like China and India and what they offer the world, to religious tolerance, to global civil society, to cross-border migration. Deep Cosmopolis traces an alternative strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and civilizations. It advances a new perspective on world history, and a distinctive vision of globalization for this century which has the real potential to resonate with us all.
The Urantia Book
Title | The Urantia Book PDF eBook |
Author | Uversa Press |
Publisher | Fifth Epochal Fellowship |
Pages | 2194 |
Release | 2003-10 |
Genre | Cosmology |
ISBN | 0965197220 |
We now include in the back of this edition, an Audio DVD of the entire content of the Urantia Book, at NO additional cost.
The Spectrum of the Sacred
Title | The Spectrum of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Baidyanath Saraswati |
Publisher | Concept Publishing Company |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Hindu shrines |
ISBN |
The Urantia Book
Title | The Urantia Book PDF eBook |
Author | Urantia Foundation |
Publisher | Urantia Foundation |
Pages | 2165 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0911560513 |
Written in the form of a revelation from divine beings, the classic guide to expanding consciousness presents texts discussing God, the universe, angels and other beings, the history of the world, the development of civilization, personal spiritual growth, and the life and teachings of Jesus.
Tacit Subjects
Title | Tacit Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Ulises Decena |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2011-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822349450 |
Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.
Defend the Sacred
Title | Defend the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. McNally |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2020-04-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 069120151X |
The remarkable story of the innovative legal strategies Native Americans have used to protect their religious rights From North Dakota's Standing Rock encampments to Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, Native Americans have repeatedly asserted legal rights to religious freedom to protect their sacred places, practices, objects, knowledge, and ancestral remains. But these claims have met with little success in court because Native American communal traditions don't fit easily into modern Western definitions of religion. In Defend the Sacred, Michael McNally explores how, in response to this situation, Native peoples have creatively turned to other legal means to safeguard what matters to them. To articulate their claims, Native peoples have resourcefully used the languages of cultural resources under environmental and historic preservation law; of sovereignty under treaty-based federal Indian law; and, increasingly, of Indigenous rights under international human rights law. Along the way, Native nations still draw on the rhetorical power of religious freedom to gain legislative and regulatory successes beyond the First Amendment. The story of Native American advocates and their struggle to protect their liberties, Defend the Sacred casts new light on discussions of religious freedom, cultural resource management, and the vitality of Indigenous religions today.