Land of Idols

Land of Idols
Title Land of Idols PDF eBook
Author Michael Parenti
Publisher Forge Books
Pages 208
Release 1994
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780312094973

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Arguing against the presumption that the U.S. has no dominant ideology, the author confronts the myths in American society that limit the perception of political reality and constrain progressive reform.

American Idols

American Idols
Title American Idols PDF eBook
Author Bob Hostetler
Publisher B&H Publishing Group
Pages 254
Release 2006
Genre Religion
ISBN 080544078X

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Feeding off the frenzy of fleeting fame and image overload, Hostetler takes anecessary look at the false gods in modern society. This timely book can helpreaders realize and overcome their own idolatries.

The Colonizers' Idols

The Colonizers' Idols
Title The Colonizers' Idols PDF eBook
Author Christina Harker
Publisher Mohr Siebeck
Pages 256
Release 2018-02-02
Genre Religion
ISBN 3161550668

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In this work, Christina Harker deconstructs the prevailing treatment of the New Testament as anti-imperial by contextualizing both New Testament scholarship and the Galatian experience within imperialist discourses that survived the dissolution of conventional empires in the twentieth century. She critiques simplistic treatments of empire as post-imperial (that is, replicating patterns of imperialist ideology, albeit unwittingly). To solve the problem, a new interpretation of Galatians is proposed that reworks and complicates the portrait of the Galatians themselves, rather than Paul, within what then emerges as a diverse social world peopled by complex individuals with heterogeneous social and cultural identities. The author is thus able to show how New Testament scholars who rehabilitate the Bible and Paul as anti-empire perpetuate the same imperialist modes of interpretation they seek to repudiate.

Fallen Idols

Fallen Idols
Title Fallen Idols PDF eBook
Author Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 282
Release 2021-10-19
Genre History
ISBN 0063081695

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An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of Blood and Sand explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past. In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into the harbor. Statues of Christopher Columbus were toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. Belgian King Leopold II was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill’s monument in London was daubed with the word “racist.” As these iconic effigies fell, the backlash was swift and intense. But as the past three hundred years have shown, history is not erased when statues are removed. If anything, Alex von Tunzelmann reminds us, it is made. Exploring the rise and fall of twelve famous, yet now controversial statues, she takes us on a fascinating global historical tour around North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, filled with larger than life characters and dramatic stories. Von Tunzelmann reveals that statues are not historical records but political statements and distinguishes between statuary—the representation of “virtuous” individuals, usually “Great Men”—and other forms of sculpture, public art, and memorialization. Nobody wants to get rid of all memorials. But Fallen Idols asks: have statues had their day?

The Dragon Lords: False Idols

The Dragon Lords: False Idols
Title The Dragon Lords: False Idols PDF eBook
Author Jon Hollins
Publisher Hachette+ORM
Pages 590
Release 2016-07-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316308277

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Guardians of the Galaxy meets TheHobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure series. The Dragons who once ruled over the land are dead. The motley crew that stumbled through that revolution are rich and praised as saviors. Everyone gets to live happily ever after, right? Right? Well, it might have worked out that way if the dragons in Kondorra had been the only ones. If they hadn't been just the tip of the spear about to fall upon the whole world. . .

Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth
Title Between Heaven and Earth PDF eBook
Author John F. Kutsko
Publisher Eisenbrauns
Pages 201
Release 2000
Genre Bible
ISBN 1575060418

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How is Yahweh to be differentiated from other deities? What is Yahweh's relationship to Israel in exile?".

An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel

An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel
Title An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel PDF eBook
Author William Greenhill
Publisher
Pages 888
Release 1839
Genre Bible
ISBN

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