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Ritual Blasphemy

Author : Roy E. Day Jr.

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 519 pages

File Size : 50,62 MB

Release : 2012-10-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0988494507

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Follow an ex-con, shaman trained, private detective trying to solve what appears to be a satanic ritual sacrifice. As he investigates a powerful and wealthy families' dark secrets, he finds love with a beautiful Native American journalist. Under the guidance of a Medicine Man he engages in a spiritual battle with the soul of a young woman hanging in the balance. Drawing from Day's shamanic training and personal experiences Roy has written what he considers to be a realistic book about spiritual warfare and the fight between good and evil as it exists in the modern world. Readers should be warned that although the author disagrees when people call it a work of horror, it has terrified some readers causing some sleepless nights.



Blasphemous Rumours

Author : Andrew Boyd

Publisher : Harper San Francisco

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 14,2 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN :

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Reports persist that children and adults are being systematically abused during rituals with satanic overtones. Opinion is divided on the truth of the matter, and the divisions are acrimonious. Sceptics argue that ritual abuse is an imported myth, believed by the gullible and propagated by the hysterical. For this investigation, Andrew Boyd has stepped beyond the current cases to interview professional carers across Britain. Between them they claim to be counselling more than 600 victims of ritual abuse. Their detailed account plus in-depth statements by survivors are shocking in the extreme. Andrew Boyd is the author of Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and TV News.



Music and Globalization

Author : Bob W. White

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 50,33 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Music

ISBN : 0253223652

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The musical heritage of slavery : from Creolization to "world music" / Denis-Constant Martin My life in the bush of ghosts : "world music" and the commodification of religious experience / Steven Feld A place in the world : globalization, music, and cultural identity in contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward Musicality and environmentalism in the rediscovery of Eldorado : an anthropology of the Raoni-Sting encounter / Rafael Jose? de Menezes Bastos "Beautiful blue" : Rara?muri violin music in a cross-border space / Daniel Noveck World music producers and the cuban frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Trovador of the Black Atlantic : Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban music / Richard M. Shain Slave ship on the infosea : contaminating the system of circulation / Barbara Browning World music of today / Timothy D. Taylor The promise of world music : strategies for non-essentialist listening / Bob W. White. Rethinking globalization through music / Bob W. White 1: Structured encounters The musical heritage of slavery : from Creolization to "world music" / Denis-Constant Martin My life in the bush of ghosts : "world music" and the commodification of religious experience / Steven Feld A place in the world : globalization, music, and cultural identity in contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward Musicality and environmentalism in the rediscovery of Eldorado : an anthropology of the Raoni-Sting encounter / Rafael Jose? de Menezes Bastos 2: Mediated encounters "Beautiful blue" : Rara?muri violin music in a cross-border space / Daniel Noveck World music producers and the cuban frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Trovador of the Black Atlantic : Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban music / Richard M. Shain 3: Imagined encounters Slave ship on the infosea : contaminating the system of circulation / Barbara Browning World music of today / Timothy D. Taylor The promise of world music : strategies for non-essentialist listening / Bob W. White.



The Great Big Book of Horrible Things

Author : Matthew White

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 689 pages

File Size : 11,74 MB

Release : 2011-10-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0393081923

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A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.



Post-Christendom Studies: Volume 4

Author : Steven M. Studebaker

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 43,10 MB

Release : 2020-08-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1725285428

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Post-Christendom Studies publishes research on the nature of Christian identity and mission in the contexts of post-Christendom. Post-Christendom refers to places, both now and in the past, where Christianity was once a significant cultural presence, though not necessarily the dominant religion. Sometimes “Christendom” refers to the official link between church and state. The term “post-Christendom” is often associated with the rise of secularization, religious pluralism, and multiculturalism in western countries over the past sixty years. Our use of the term is broader than that however. Egypt for example can be considered a post-Christendom context. It was once a leading center of Christianity. “Christendom” moreover does not necessarily mean official public and dominant religion. For example, under Saddam Hussein, Christianity was probably a minority religion, but, for the most part, Christians were left alone. After America deposed Saddam, Christians began to flee because they became a persecuted minority. In that sense, post-Saddam Iraq is an experience of post-Christendom—it is a shift from a cultural context in which Christians have more or less freedom to exercise their faith to one where they are persecuted and/or marginalized for doing so.



Hours of Gladness

Author : Thomas Fleming

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 28,67 MB

Release : 2001-01-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466821396

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Paradise Beach, New Jersey. The perfect place for Dick O'Gorman and Billy Kilroy to smuggle ashore Cuban missiles to be used in the Irish Republican Army's war against England. Paradise Beach is an Irish American enclave, one that has no idea about the violent upheaval into which it will soon be thrown. It is 1984. Irish Americans, preoccupied with a loss of political power in the cities, have little sympathy for Ireland and the IRA. This is especially true of Mick O'Day, an ex-marine whose moral failure in Vietnam haunts him still. It is a combustible mix, as a British secret agent disguised as a priest sows suspicion between the Irish Americans and the IRA men that could ignite into a physical and spiritual explosion and could tear the community apart at its very seams. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Hard Bread

Author : Peg Boyers

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 110 pages

File Size : 27,9 MB

Release : 2002-04-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780226069654

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The author has written poetry as if it were that of someone else: Natalia Ginzburg (1916- ), an Italian born of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, and the writer, herself, of novels, plays, essays, and newspaper columns.



The Name of All Things

Author : Jenn Lyons

Publisher : Tor Books

Page : 512 pages

File Size : 25,99 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250175526

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"Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it."—Lev Grossman on The Ruin of Kings You can have everything you want if you sacrifice everything you believe. Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man. Since he destroyed the Stone of Shackles and set demons free across Quur, he has been on the run from the wrath of an entire empire. His attempt to escape brings him into the path of Janel Theranon, a mysterious Joratese woman who claims to know Kihrin. Janel's plea for help pits Kihrin against all manner of dangers: a secret rebellion, a dragon capable of destroying an entire city, and Kihrin's old enemy, the wizard Relos Var. Janel believes that Relos Var possesses one of the most powerful artifacts in the world—the Cornerstone called the Name of All Things. And if Janel is right, then there may be nothing in the world that can stop Relos Var from getting what he wants. And what he wants is Kihrin D'Mon. Jenn Lyons continues the Chorus of Dragons series with The Name of All Things, the epic sequel to The Ruin of Kings A Chorus of Dragons 1: The Ruin of Kings 2: The Name of All Things 3: The Memory of Souls At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History

Author : Matthew White

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 727 pages

File Size : 37,79 MB

Release : 2011-11-07

Category : History

ISBN : 0393083306

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“An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.



Vespers

Author : Ed McBain

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 37,88 MB

Release : 2004-09-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743470753

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When the symbol of a Satanic cult is left at the murder scene of a young Catholic priest, the cops of the 87th Precinct must keep it from becoming the spark which ignites the racial and ethnic tensions smoldering in the city.