A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
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Author |
: Victoria Smolkin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2019-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691197234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691197237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by : Victoria Smolkin
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Author |
: Eleonory Gilburd |
Publisher |
: Belknap Press |
Total Pages |
: 481 |
Release |
: 2018-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674980716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674980719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis To See Paris and Die by : Eleonory Gilburd
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year Winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Cultural Studies Winner of the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies Winner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin’s death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. At the heart of this history is a process of translation, in which Western figures took on Soviet roles: Pablo Picasso as a political rabble-rouser; Rockwell Kent as a quintessential American painter; Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway as teachers of love and courage under fire; J. D. Salinger and Giuseppe De Santis as saviors from Soviet clichés. Imported novels challenged fundamental tenets of Soviet ethics, while modernist paintings tested deep-seated notions of culture. Western films were eroticized even before viewers took their seats. The drama of cultural exchange and translation encompassed discovery as well as loss. Eleonory Gilburd explores the pleasure, longing, humiliation, and anger that Soviet citizens felt as they found themselves in the midst of this cross-cultural encounter. The main protagonists of To See Paris and Die are small-town teachers daydreaming of faraway places, college students vicariously discovering a wider world, and factory engineers striving for self-improvement. They invested Western imports with political and personal significance, transforming foreign texts into intimate belongings. With the end of the Soviet Union, the Soviet West disappeared from the cultural map. Gilburd’s history reveals how domesticated Western imports defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, as well as its death and afterlife.
Author |
: Salman Rushdie |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 24 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105043075733 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Is Nothing Sacred? by : Salman Rushdie
Author |
: Napoleon Hill |
Publisher |
: Sharon Lechter |
Total Pages |
: 30 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Outwitting the Devil by : Napoleon Hill
Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.
Author |
: Karen Kingston |
Publisher |
: Piatkus |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2013-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780349401768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0349401764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by : Karen Kingston
'What a great book . . . I have read it twice in a week and underline more of it each time. Thanks, Karen, for helping me to simplify my life in a joyful way' Louise Hay Clearing clutter can radically transform your life. Drawing on her wealth of experience as a feng shui, space clearing and clutter clearing consultant, Karen Kingston explains how clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching physical, mental, emotional and spiritual effects. This book will motivate you to clutter-clear as never before, once you realise just how much your junk has been holding you back! Learn: - Why people keep clutter - How clutter causes stagnation in every area of your life - Why clearing clutter is essential for effective feng shui - How to clear clutter quickly and effectively - Karen Kingston's top ten clutter clearing tips
Author |
: Hector Avalos |
Publisher |
: Prometheus Books |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615921959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615921958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Words by : Hector Avalos
Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side?In this intriguing, original study of religious violence, Prof. Hector Avalos offers a new theory for the role of religion in violent conflicts. Starting with the premise that most violence is the result of real or perceived scare resources, Avalos persuasively argues that religion creates new scarcities on the basis of unverifiable or illusory criteria. Through a careful analysis of the fundamental texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, Dr. Avalos explains how four scarce resources have figured repeatedly in creating religious violence: sacred space (e.g., the perception by three world religions that Jerusalem is sacred); the creation of holy scriptures (believed to be privileged revelations of God's will); group privilege (stemming from such beliefs as a chosen people or predestination, which also creates a group of outsiders); and salvation (by which concept some are accepted and others rejected). Thus, Avalos shows, religious violence is often the most unnecessary violence of all since the scarce resources over which religious conflicts ensue are not actually scare or need not be scarce.Comparing violence in religious and nonreligious contexts, Avalos makes the compelling argument that if we condemn violence caused by scarce resources as morally objectionable, then we must consider even more objectionable violence provoked by alleged scarcities that cannot be proven to exist. He also examines the Nazi Holocaust and the Stalinist Terror, which have been attributed to the pernicious effects of atheism or secular humanism. By contrast, Avalos pinpoints underlying religious factors as the cause of these horrific instances of genocidal violence.This serious philosophical examination of the roots of religious violence adds much to our understanding of a perennial source of widespread human suffering.Hector Avalos (Ames, IA) is associate professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, the author of five books on biblical studies and religion, the former editor of the Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.
Author |
: Peter Brook |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684829579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0684829576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Empty Space by : Peter Brook
Discusses four types of theatrical landscapes; the deadly theatre, the holy theatre, the rough theatre, and the immediate theatre.
Author |
: Jason König |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 501 |
Release |
: 2013-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107244580 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107244587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Libraries by : Jason König
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Author |
: Timothy Beal |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2006-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807010634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807010631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roadside Religion by : Timothy Beal
In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments and Precious Moments Chapel. Roadside Religion tells of his attempts to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience, and to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity.
Author |
: Jayme Barrett |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806976292 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806976297 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feng Shui Your Life by : Jayme Barrett
Jayme Bartett, the feng shui consultant to the rich and powerful of Beverly Hills, has written the most comprehensive and life changing book on the subject.