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Author |
: Victoria Loorz |
Publisher |
: Broadleaf Books |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2021-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506469652 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506469655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Church of the Wild by : Victoria Loorz
2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in "Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought" CategoryWinner of the Living Now Book Award, Church of the Wild reminds us that once upon a time, humans lived in an intimate relationship with nature. Whether disillusioned by the dominant church or unfulfilled by traditional expressions of faith, many of us long for a deeper spirituality. Victoria Loorz certainly did. Coping with an unraveling vocation, identity, and planet, Loorz turned to the wanderings of spiritual leaders and the sanctuary of the natural world, eventually cofounding the Wild Church Network and Seminary of the Wild. With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild uncovers the wild roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it--and calling it church. Through mystical encounters with wild deer, whispers from a scrubby oak tree, wordless conversation with a cougar, and more, Loorz helps us connect to a love that literally holds the world together--a love that calls us into communion with all creatures.
Author |
: David Chidester |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2012-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520951570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520951573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild Religion by : David Chidester
Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. In the context of South Africa’s political journey and religious diversity, David Chidester explores African indigenous religious heritage with a difference. As the spiritual dimension of an African Renaissance, indigenous religion has been recovered in South Africa as a national resource. Wild Religion analyzes indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the new national shrine, Freedom Park, and rituals of animal sacrifice at the World Cup. Not always in the national interest, indigenous religion also appears in the wild religious creativity of prison gangs, the global spirituality of neo-shamans, the ceremonial display of Zulu virgins, the ancient Egyptian theosophy in South Africa’s Parliament, and the new traditionalism of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Arguing that the sacred is produced through the religious work of intensive interpretation, formal ritualization, and intense contestation, Chidester develops innovative insights for understanding the meaning and power of religion in a changing society. For anyone interested in religion, Wild Religion uncovers surprising dynamics of sacred space, violence, fundamentalism, heritage, media, sex, sovereignty, and the political economy of the sacred.
Author |
: Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher |
: Twelve |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2014-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781455501755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1455501751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Living with a Wild God by : Barbara Ehrenreich
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In Living With a Wild God, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.
Author |
: Laura Feldt |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2012-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614511724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1614511721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilderness in Mythology and Religion by : Laura Feldt
Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions. It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wildlife preservation and climate discourses. Yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorising from a cross-cultural study of religions perspective. What are the specific relations between the world’s religions and imagined and real wilderness areas? The wilderness is often understood as a domain void of humans, opposed to civilization, but the analyses in this book complicate and question the dualism of previous theoretical grids and offer new perspectives on the interesting multiplicity of the wilderness and religion nexus. This book thus addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in a diverse range of contexts including, but not limited to, ancient Greece, early Christian asceticism, Old Norse religion, the shamanism-Buddhism encounter in Mongolia, contemporary paganism, and wilderness spirituality in the US. It advances research on religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature and brings new understanding of the role of religion in human interaction with ‘the world’.
Author |
: John Eldredge |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2011-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400200399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400200393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wild at Heart by : John Eldredge
In all your boyhood dreams of growing up, did you dream of being a "nice guy"? Eldredge believes that every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God made him to be.
Author |
: Daniel C. Dennett |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2006-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101218860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110121886X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Breaking the Spell by : Daniel C. Dennett
The New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactions For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, Breaking the Spell will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.
Author |
: Sarah M. Pike |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2017-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520294967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520294963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis For the Wild by : Sarah M. Pike
For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals and the natural world as worthy of protection. Emotions and memories of wonder, love, compassion, anger, and grief shape activists’ protest practices and help us understand their deep-rooted dedicaztion to the planet and its creatures. Drawing on analyses of activist art, music, and writings, as well as interviews and participant-observation in activist communities, Sarah M. Pike delves into the sacred duties of these often misunderstood and marginalized groups with openness and sensitivity.
Author |
: Phil Wyman |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2015-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1515267180 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781515267188 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Burning Religion by : Phil Wyman
Burning Religion is a multi-genre book covering elements of philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, autobiography, poetry, and Carnivalesque tall tales in a thesis suggesting that making peace between disparate worldviews is not possible in any permanent manner through typical moderate or third-way approaches. So-called "radical" approaches are not radical enough. Finding lasting peace requires something wild. Burning Religion is the first of a series suggesting that the wildness of the Carnival just might hold a key to peacemaking.Phil Wyman a pastor, writer, editor, musician, songwriter, poet, wannabe philosopher-artist, and creator of interactive "blank canvas social art," and is looking for people to join him in a revolution of relationship building across polarized and clashing communities. Phil's pioneering work in developing peaceful relationships between Christians and Neo-Pagans appeared the Front Page of the Wall Street Journal in 2006, in a story highlighting institutional obstructions to lovingly embracing the radical "Other." This book is an adventurous journey into the intellectual, emotional and physical places where uncommon friends are made and true listening begins.
Author |
: Maeve Brigid Callan |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2015-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801471988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801471982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish by : Maeve Brigid Callan
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the "Land of Saints and Scholars," due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its culture. As early as the seventh century, however, questions were raised about Irish orthodoxy, primarily concerning Easter observances. Yet heresy trials did not occur in Ireland until significantly later, long after allegations of Irish apostasy from Christianity had sanctioned the English invasion of Ireland. In The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish, Maeve Brigid Callan analyzes Ireland's medieval heresy trials, which all occurred in the volatile fourteenth century. These include the celebrated case of Alice Kyteler and her associates, prosecuted by Richard de Ledrede, bishop of Ossory, in 1324. This trial marks the dawn of the "devil-worshipping witch" in European prosecutions, with Ireland an unexpected birthplace.Callan divides Ireland’s heresy trials into three categories. In the first stand those of the Templars and Philip de Braybrook, whose trial derived from the Templars’, brought by their inquisitor against an old rival. Ledrede’s prosecutions, against Kyteler and other prominent Anglo-Irish colonists, constitute the second category. The trials of native Irishmen who fell victim to the sort of propaganda that justified the twelfth-century invasion and subsequent colonization of Ireland make up the third. Callan contends that Ireland’s trials resulted more from feuds than doctrinal deviance and reveal the range of relations between the English, the Irish, and the Anglo-Irish, and the church’s role in these relations; tensions within ecclesiastical hierarchy and between secular and spiritual authority; Ireland’s position within its broader European context; and political, cultural, ethnic, and gender concerns in the colony.
Author |
: FARDON R |
Publisher |
: Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015021999894 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis BETWEEN GOD DEAD & WILD by : FARDON R
Fardon draws on the testimony of informants in two Chamba villages in West Africa -- one an uncentralized community in Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon -- to show that, despite sharing basic presuppositions regarding various types of being, the two groups manifest their beliefs in quite different ways.