Divining History
Title | Divining History PDF eBook |
Author | Jayne Svenungsson |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-08-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1785331744 |
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
The Divining Rod a History of Water Witching, with a Bibliography
Title | The Divining Rod a History of Water Witching, with a Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Jackson Ellis |
Publisher | Blunt Press |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2010-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1445545896 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Divining Rod - a history of water witching
Title | Divining Rod - a history of water witching PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Jackson Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Dowsing |
ISBN |
Divining Slavery and Freedom
Title | Divining Slavery and Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | João José Reis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2015-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316299767 |
Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil in the nineteenth century. After obtaining his freedom, Sodré became a slave owner himself, and in 1862 was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods from slaves in exchange for supposed 'witchcraft'. Using this incident as a catalyst, the book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, analyzing its double role as a refuge for blacks as well as a bridge between classes and ethnic groups (such as whites who attended African rituals and sought help from African diviners and medicine men). Ultimately, Divining Slavery explores the fluidity and relativity of conditions such as slavery and freedom, African and local religions, personal and collective experience and identities in the lives of Africans in the Brazilian diaspora.
The Divining Rod
Title | The Divining Rod PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Jackson Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Blacksmith Fork River (Utah) |
ISBN |
Divining Chaos
Title | Divining Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | Aviva Rahmani |
Publisher | New Village Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2022-06-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1613321686 |
A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Detailing the history that led her to two seminal projects—Ghost Nets, restoring a coastal town dump to flourishing wetlands, and The Blued Trees Symphony, which applied her premises to challenge natural gas pipelines with a novel legal theory about land use—Rahmani shares the decisions that shaped her life’s work and thinking. Her discussions about trigger point theory argue for how to predict, confront, and determine outcomes to the ecological challenges we face today.
Divining the Self
Title | Divining the Self PDF eBook |
Author | Velma E. Love |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2015-06-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0271061456 |
Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.