Cults of Serendipity
Author | : Jagannath Panda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art, Indic |
ISBN | : 9780984644766 |
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Author | : Jagannath Panda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art, Indic |
ISBN | : 9780984644766 |
Author | : Jonathan Boulter |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441152164 |
Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.
Author | : Jörg Rüpke |
Publisher | : Kohlhammer Verlag |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2021-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3170292269 |
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.
Author | : Jonathon Keats |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 019933823X |
You Belong to the Universe documents Buckminster Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Jonathon Keats sets out to restore Fuller's good name, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context. Keats argues that Fuller's life and ideas, namely doing "the most with the least" is now more relevant than ever as we struggle to meet the demands of an exploding world population with finite resources.
Author | : George C. Heider |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 1987-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567578895 |
Both scholars and popular writers have long been fascinated with the cult of Molek in the Old Testament. Writers from John Milton to Charles Dickens have been tantalized by the awful rite of sacrifice. Heider's volume evaluates the significance of the Molek cult with regard to the biblical, archaeological, and literary evidence. He begins with a broad history of scholarship on Molek from the seventeenth century onward, paying special attention to the contributions of Otto Eissfeldt and Moshe Weinfeld. He also surveys the literary evidence-in particular the Eblaite, Amorite, Ugaritic, Akkadian, and Phoenician evidence. He also examines the archaeological evidence from the Mesopotamian region. The book concludes with a detailed look at the relevant biblical texts, with a detailed look at Leviticus 18 and 20, Genesis 22, and various passages in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets.
Author | : Titus Hjelm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0415667976 |
How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They explain how the ideas for their projects and books have come together, how their understanding of religion has changed over the years, and how their own beliefs have affected their work. They also comment on the changing nature of the field, the ideas which they regard as most important, and those which have not stood the test of time. Lastly they offer advice to young scholars, and suggest what needs to be done to enable the field to grow and develop further.
Author | : Lyman Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780310250814 |
"Ready-made Bible studies for the New Testament appear next to the passage they refer to in this study book. No need to flip pages or juggle study book and Bible. This study book consists of: the NIV New Testament, an introduction to each New Testament book, study questions for each New Testament section with a heading, 48 Bible studies on Christ's life, 10 topical study courses for general study from the Gospels, and the same 10 topics for advanced study from the Epistles. The Serendipity Bible Study Book enables the user to lead a Bible study without having to spend hours in preparation -- the book provides everything necessary to lead a group week after week. It also supplies an individual with material for guided quiet times."--Back cover
Author | : Debjani Ganguly |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822374242 |
In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends: the consolidation of the information age, the arrival of a perpetual state of global war, and the expanding focus on humanitarianism. Ganguly analyzes a trove of novels from authors including Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Art Spiegelman, who address wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, the Palestinian and Kashmiri crises, the Rwandan genocide, and post9/11 terrorism. These novels exist in a context in which suffering's presence in everyday life is mediated through digital images and where authors integrate visual forms into their storytelling. In showing how the evolution of the contemporary global novel is analogous to the European novel’s emergence in the eighteenth century, when society and the development of capitalism faced similar monumental ruptures, Ganguly provides both a theory of the contemporary moment and a reminder of the novel's power.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Mitchell |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307426025 |
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space? A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions—to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea—that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective—strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.