Gods of the City
Author | : Robert A. Orsi |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1999-07-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780253212764 |
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Author | : Robert A. Orsi |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1999-07-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780253212764 |
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Author | : Jacob Olupona |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2011-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520265564 |
The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.
Author | : Caroline Arnold |
Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1623347793 |
Explore the ruins of the ancient metropolis and ceremonial complex of Teotihuacan (Mexico) and experience what life was like for the people who lived there.
Author | : Richard Scott Hanson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Flushing (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9780823271634 |
City of Gods is a history and ethnography of Flushing, Queens in New York City. An important site in colonial America for its place in the history of religious freedom, Flushing is now perhaps the most striking case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world--and an ideal place to explore how America's long experiment with religious freedom, immigration, and religious pluralism began and continues
Author | : John S. Dunne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780268007263 |
In The City of the Gods, John S. Dunne traces humanity's political and social mythologies from ancient Sumer to the present, showing how they reflect the diverse responses of each era to the inevitability of death.
Author | : Robert Jackson Bennett |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804137188 |
An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.
Author | : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paulo Lins |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155584684X |
The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based. “A Scarface-like urban epic . . . punctuated with lyricism and longing” (Publishers Weekly). City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and where one young man wants to escape his background and become a photographer. When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film. Written by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favela (shantytown) Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro and who spent years researching its gang history, City of God began life as a coruscating, harrowing novelistic account of twenty years in the illicit pursuits of the youth gangs born from the favela. “With plot devices sometimes as minimal as the dawning of a new day, City of God seems more like a mosaic than a novel, but it’s a mosaic with unforgettably vibrant colors.” —Booklist
Author | : Sarwat Chadda |
Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1368066631 |
Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues, from wiping out the population of Manhattan in this adventure based on Mesopotamian mythology.
Author | : Robert Jackson Bennett |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553419722 |
A triumphant return to the world of City of Stairs. A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now, the city’s god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings. So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh— foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumored war criminal, ally of an embattled Prime Minister—has been exiled there to count down the days until she can draw her pension and be forgotten. At least, it makes the perfect cover story. The truth is that the general has been pressed into service one last time, dispatched to investigate a discovery with the potential to change the world--or destroy it. The trouble is that this old soldier isn't sure she's still got what it takes to be the hero.