The Sacred Remains
Title | The Sacred Remains PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Laderman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300078688 |
" ... A primary goal of this study is to shed some light on how changing attitudes toward death and the dead in the previous century have led to present-day perspectives and practices."--Page 1.
A stream from the tree of life. Sacred remains; or a divine appendix. A book of letters, or spiritual epistles. Supplement to the book of letters. The acts of the witnesses of the spirit. A true account of the trial and sufferings of Lodwicke Muggleton ... left by our friend Powell
Title | A stream from the tree of life. Sacred remains; or a divine appendix. A book of letters, or spiritual epistles. Supplement to the book of letters. The acts of the witnesses of the spirit. A true account of the trial and sufferings of Lodwicke Muggleton ... left by our friend Powell PDF eBook |
Author | John Reeve |
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Pages | 1154 |
Release | 1832 |
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Sacred remains
Title | Sacred remains PDF eBook |
Author | John Reeve |
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Release | 1856 |
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The Sacred Remains
Title | The Sacred Remains PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Parmentier |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1987-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226646954 |
At one level this book is a compilation of political traditions of Belau in Micronesia-from the divine foundation of political systems to the present day. It offers an analysis of the structures and dynamics of Belauan history, identifying several forms of order and some of their potentials for change. Also the author develops a critique of standard approaches to history in small-scale societies. He argues for a semiotic approach that recognizes the historical consciousness of actors in the society under study.
Native American Sacred Places
Title | Native American Sacred Places PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Cultural property |
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Sacred Fictions
Title | Sacred Fictions PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda L. Coon |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-11-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812201671 |
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.
Law and the Sacred
Title | Law and the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Sarat |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780804755757 |
"The essays in this book were originally prepared for ... during the 2001-2002 academic year."--Acknowledgments.