Rachel Saint

Rachel Saint
Title Rachel Saint PDF eBook
Author Janet Benge
Publisher YWAM Publishing
Pages 212
Release 2005
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781576583371

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A biography of Rachel Saint, a missionary who worked among the Auca Indians of Ecuador after members of that tribe murdered her brother and four other missionaries.

Excessive Saints

Excessive Saints
Title Excessive Saints PDF eBook
Author Rachel J. D. Smith
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 318
Release 2018-12-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 0231547935

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For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas’s texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person’s life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how Thomas passionately narrates these lives even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas’s narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women’s history.

God in the Rainforest

God in the Rainforest
Title God in the Rainforest PDF eBook
Author Kathryn T. Long
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 662
Release 2019-01-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 0190609001

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In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization.

Saint Rachel

Saint Rachel
Title Saint Rachel PDF eBook
Author Michael Bracewell
Publisher Random House (UK)
Pages 236
Release 1996
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Transexuality and Prozac in London, murder in Paris and cancer in Lourdes. This novel details the slide into depression of 30-year-old John White, aimlessly cast adrift once his wife has abandoned him.

The Dayuma Story

The Dayuma Story
Title The Dayuma Story PDF eBook
Author Ethel Emily Wallis
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 2013-10
Genre
ISBN 9781494072742

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This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.

Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints

Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints
Title Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints PDF eBook
Author Daneen Akers
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2019-11-15
Genre
ISBN 9781734089509

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An illustrated children's storybook featuring people of faith who rocked the religious boat on behalf of love and justice.

Line in the Sand

Line in the Sand
Title Line in the Sand PDF eBook
Author Rachel St. John
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 296
Release 2012-11-25
Genre History
ISBN 0691156131

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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.