Book Description
A study of the Chamba religion in two West African villages - one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria.
Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1474468144
A study of the Chamba religion in two West African villages - one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria.
Author : FARDON R
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
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.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455501751
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 : John Eldredge
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400200393
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 : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781946684219
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Author : Foy Scalf
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 9781614910381
Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
Author : Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.)
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1808
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Author : Mark Buchanan
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307563626
Our perception of God makes a difference in every crevice of our character, from our inner anxieties to our public conversations. It determines whether we're trusting or suspicious, whether we're happy or discontent - and whether or not we can rely on God matters mightily on the day of our death. Mark Buchanan's third book continues his penetrating exploration of the God we worship. Bravely and honestly, he poses the direst question of human existence: Can God be trusted? It's life drunk deeply, lived to the hilt—where we walk with the God who is surprising, dangerous, and mysterious. It's the terrain where God doesn't make sense out of our disasters and our boredom, but keeps meeting us in the thick of them. But unless we trust in His character, we'll never venture in. We will sit at the stream all day, dying of thirst, but not daring to drink. To follow God is to drink and drink from the stream, even if it means—especially if it means—getting swallowed up. Let Mark Buchanan show you the entrance to the Holy Wild, where you can live face-to-face with the beautiful, dangerous God of creation.
Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN :
Author : John Wesley
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 1869
Category :
ISBN :