Viva
Title | Viva PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN |
Rituals of Sacrifice
Title | Rituals of Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent James Stanzione |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780826329172 |
Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University
Jesus Freak
Title | Jesus Freak PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Miles |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2009-12-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0470588136 |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world." In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark places to bless and heal, she offers hope. She holds out the promise of a God who gave a bunch of housewives and fishermen authority to forgive sins and raise the dead, and who continues to call us to action. And she tells, in vivid, heartbreakingly honest stories, how the ordinary people around her are transformed by taking up God's work in the world. Sara Miles offers a fresh, fully embodied faith that sweeps away the anxious formulas of religion to reveal the scandalous power of eating with sinners, embracing the unclean, and loving the wrong people. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead is her inspiring book for undomesticated Christians who still believe, as she writes, "that Jesus has given us the power to be Jesus."
The Messenger of the sacred heart of Jesus [afterw.] The Messenger
Title | The Messenger of the sacred heart of Jesus [afterw.] The Messenger PDF eBook |
Author | Apostleship of prayer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Out West
Title | Out West PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Pacific States |
ISBN |
Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.
The Land of Sunshine
Title | The Land of Sunshine PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fletcher Lummis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | California |
ISBN |
Our Sister Republic
Title | Our Sister Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Albert S. Evans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1870 |
Genre | Mexico |
ISBN |