In Quest of the Great White Gods
Author | : Robert Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517098523 |
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Author | : Robert Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517098523 |
Author | : Pierre Honoré |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
One of the pioneers of underwater archaeology--and an explorer-adventurer in the grand style--recalls his 35 years of searching for and finding evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New World. Two black-and-white photo inserts.
Author | : Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
One of the pioneers of underwater archaeology--and an explorer-adventurer in the grand style--recalls his 35 years of searching for and finding evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old and New World. Two black-and-white photo inserts.
Author | : Robert F. Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pierre Honoré |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eduard Stucken |
Publisher | : New York, Farrar & Rinehart |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anna Della Subin |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250296889 |
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us. In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nationalist uprisings in India to Nigerien spirit possession cults, Anna Della Subin explores how deification has been a means of defiance for colonized peoples. Conversely, we see how Columbus, Cortés, and other white explorers amplified stories of their godhood to justify their dominion over native peoples, setting into motion the currents of racism and exclusion that have plagued the New World ever since they touched its shores. At once deeply learned and delightfully antic, Accidental Gods offers an unusual keyhole through which to observe the creation of our modern world. It is that rare thing: a lyrical, entertaining work of ideas, one that marks the debut of a remarkable literary career.
Author | : Frank Joseph |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1601635141 |
Was America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492? Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than 4,000 years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic? Did the Phoenicians, who circumnavigated the African continent in 600 bc, never consider sailing farther? Were the Vikings, the most fearless warriors and seafarers of all time, terrified at the prospect of a transoceanic voyage? If so, how are we to account for an Egyptian temple accidentally unearthed by Tennessee Valley Authority workers in 1935? What is a beautifully crafted metal plate with the image of a Phoenician woman doing in the Utah desert? And who can explain the discovery of Viking houses and wharves excavated outside of Boston? These enigmas are but a tiny fraction of the abundant physical proof for Old World visitors to our continent hundreds and thousands of years ago. In addition, Sumerians, Minoans, Romans, Celts, ancient Hebrews, Indonesians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Irish, and the Knights Templar all made their indelible, if neglected, mark on our land.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441142665 |
'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways. It is not that a wholly different God is discovered from the One believed in by previous generations. Christian faith does not believe in a new God but, finding itself in new situations, seeks the presence of God there. Aspects long-forgotten are brought into new relationships with current events, and the depths of divine compassion are appreciated in ways not previously imagined.' This book sets out the fruit of these discoveries. The first chapter describes Johnson's point of departure and the rules of engagement, with each succeeding chapter distilling a discrete idea of God. Featured are transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, ending with the particular Christian idea of the one God as Trinity.