Other Worlds And Their Relation To This World
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Author |
: Tobias Nicklas |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2010-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004190733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004190732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World by : Tobias Nicklas
Is there a future after death and what does this future look like? What kind of life can we expect, and in what kind of world? Is there another, hopefully better world than the one we live in? The articles collected in this volume, all written by leading experts in the field, deal with the question how ancient Jewish and Christian authors describe “otherworldly places and situations”. They investigate why various forms of texts were created to address the questions above, how these texts functioned, and how they have to be understood. It is shown how ancient descriptions of the “otherworld” are taking over and reworking existing motifs, forms and genres, but also that they mirror concrete problems, ideas, experiences, and questions of their authors and the first readers.
Author |
: Christopher G. White |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2018-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674984295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674984293 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Worlds by : Christopher G. White
Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.
Author |
: María Cátedra Tomás |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 1992-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226097153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226097152 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis This World, Other Worlds by : María Cátedra Tomás
The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe—and an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. This World, Other Worlds considers death among the Vaqueiros as a central cultural fact which reveals local ideas about the origin and destiny of humans, the relations of humans and animals, the configuration of the universe, and the nature of society. Interested chiefly in the conceptual and meaningful aspects of death, María Cátedra focuses on the cultural resources with which the Vaqueiros confront their own mortality—how they experience death and what this reveals about the way they see this world and other worlds. Applying sensitive ethnographic insight to a rich body of oral testimony, Cátedra discloses an unsuspected symbolic universe native to the Vaqueiros. Death is seen here in close, coherent relation to pain, age, and suffering; sickness and suicide, one must understand the cultural valuation of different ways of dying and the conditions under which suicides take place. To understand what it means to be a Vaqueiro is to understand how suicide can be perceived by a people as acceptable. A groundbreaking work in European ethnography, This World, Other Worlds takes symbolic analysis to a new level. In its illumination of local conceptions of death, grace, and sainthood, the book also makes a substantial contribution to the anthropology of religion.
Author |
: Teffi |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2021-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681375397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681375397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Worlds by : Teffi
Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.
Author |
: Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones |
Publisher |
: New Leaf Publishing Group |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2005-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614582106 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1614582106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chronology of the Old Testament by : Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones
The Chronology of the Old Testamenthas one goal to accomplish: to demonstrate "that every chronological statement contained in the Sacred Writ is consistent with all other chronological statements contained therein." Author Floyd Nolen Jones carefully and thoroughly investigates that chronological and mathematical facts of the Old Testament, proving them to be accurate and reliable. This biblically sound, scholarly, and easy-to-understand book will enlighten and astound its readers with solutions and alternatives to many questions Bible scholars have had over the centuries. Features: Scriptural solutions to many biblical mathematical controversies Sir Robert Anderson's calculation error corrected The 483-year prophecy of Daniel 9:25 explained A scriptural formula which biblically synchronizes the kingdoms of Judah and Israel 48 charts, graphs, and diagrams included in text Fully indexed with complete bibliography Supports and updates James Ussher's Annals of the World With reliable explanatory text, detailed charts, and diagrams, this book provides a systematic framework of the chronology of the Bible from Genesis through the life of Christ. No Bible scholar should be without this indispensable reference tool.
Author |
: Margaret Atwood |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2011-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385533973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385533977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Other Worlds by : Margaret Atwood
A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writer The ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, utopias, dystopias, slipstream, and fantasy, musing on the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with SF, from her childhood invention of a race of flying superhero rabbits to her graduate study of its Victorian antecedents to the creation of her own acclaimed novels. Studded with appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift, In Other Worlds is as humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative.
Author |
: Henry Steel Olcott |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 1875 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044048285001 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis People from the Other World by : Henry Steel Olcott
Author |
: James Trefil |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106015375881 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Worlds by : James Trefil
Text and images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager, Pathfinder, and other space missions celebrate the universe as humankind knows it.
Author |
: John Stott |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802875525 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802875521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Two Worlds by : John Stott
First published 1982 in the U.K. by Hodder and Stoughton, London, under the title "I Believe in Preaching."
Author |
: John Keene |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2016-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811224352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081122435X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Counternarratives by : John Keene
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.