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This story takes place in the mid-twenty first century. Scientist has a close call with a UFO and then travels to Mars to do research.
Author : Natural Biological Survey Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit Thomas E Martin
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612049427
This story takes place in the mid-twenty first century. Scientist has a close call with a UFO and then travels to Mars to do research.
Author : Toni Huber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226356507
The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves “the child of Indian civilization” and that India is the “holy land” from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? In The Holy Land Reborn ̧ Toni Huber investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India, particularly by way of pilgrimage, and what it means for them to consider India as their holy land. Focusing on the Tibetan creation and recreation of India as a destination, a landscape, and a kind of other, in both real and idealized terms, Huber explores how Tibetans have used the idea of India as a religious territory and a sacred geography in the development of their own religion and society. In a timely closing chapter, Huber also takes up the meaning of India for the Tibetans who live in exile in their Buddhist holy land. A major contribution to the study of Buddhism, The Holy Land Reborn describes changes in Tibetan constructs of India over the centuries, ultimately challenging largely static views of the sacred geography of Buddhism in India.
Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1445620006
The definitive work on church archaeology.
Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191650390
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Author : Mary Ann Frese Witt
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838641606
Addresses the question of the legacies of Nietzsche's theories of tragedy as literary genre and of the tragic as ontological concept. This volume gives a sampling of the multifaceted and widespread impact of Nietzsche's thought in Eastern as well as in Western Europe and in the United States.
Author : Joel Diaz Santiago
Publisher : Joel Diaz Santiago
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In a world where fantasy and love are more real than meets the eye, a young man named Joe Hillson must unite his mortal life with the mystical creature called the phoenix to save humanity from a mad scientist who plans to rule the world with his horrible creatures. starting with the destruction of London at the beginning of this universe of stories you will see that love and legends will be born!
Author : Jon Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1134792727
Death is a core topic in ancient history/late antiquity courses Death is of perennial academic and sociological interest Comprehensive analysis from ancient near east to Christian martyrs Fills a gap in the market - nothing written on this topic.
Author : Justin Brierley
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1496466772
Could We Be Witnessing a Return of Belief in Our Generation?Justin Brierley, the host of the popular radio show and podcast Unbelievable?, is convinced that in our time we are witnessing a growing wave of faith.Famously described as the "long, withdrawing roar" of the "Sea of Faith," the Christian narrative that shaped the West has been replaced by sweeping secularism. But is that the end of the story?It was a conversation with agnostic journalist Douglas Murray that led Brierley to investigate whether a change was on the horizon. Speaking of the "Sea of Faith," Murray remarked that tides come back in again and that a number of his intelligent friends had converted to Christianity in recent years. Brierley was seeing a similar trend among the secular thinkers he had interviewed on his show. Jordan Peterson, Tom Holland, Dave Rubin, and many others have found themselves surprised by the continuing resonance and relevance of Christianity, and they are joining in on conversations about faith.Readers will encounter Brierley's discussion of cultural trends and concepts including: The meaning crisis Public intellectuals embracing faith Why the Christianity story is ready to return And much moreIn The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, Brierley outlines the dramatic fall of New Atheism and the birth of a new conversation on whether God makes sense of science, history, culture, and the search for meaning. People are returning to Christianity--but is the church prepared to welcome a new wave of faith?There's a new conversation building. The tide is coming.
Author : David Geary
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0295742380
This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town based on an agricultural economy to an international destination that attracts hundreds of thousands of Buddhist pilgrims and visitors each year has given rise to a series of conflicts that foreground the politics of space and meaning among Bodh Gaya’s diverse constituencies. David Geary examines the modern revival of Buddhism in India, the colonial and postcolonial dynamics surrounding archaeological heritage and sacred space, and the role of tourism and urban development in India.
Author : Doreen Valiente
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0719826934
Since 1951, when the last of the Witchcraft Acts was repealed, many books have been written about the reappearance of witchcraft and the development of a pagan theology. Churchmen have denounced it. Sociologists have wondered at it. Journalists have penned sensational stories about it. But until the publication of this book, no one had told the real story of it from the inside as frankly as it is told here. Doreen Valiente, one of witchcraft's most widely known figures, was a close friend of the late Gerald Gardner, generally regarded as the founder of present-day witchcraft. Initiated by him and for a time High Priestess of his coven, Doreen Valiente helped him rewrite his seminal Book of Shadows. She records the break with Gardner that split his coven, the controversy surrounding Alex Sanders, 'King of the Witches' and memories of many other witches whom she has known, including the lady called 'Dafo', Robert Cochrane, Leslie Roberts and Sybil Leek. Doreen Valiente took part in many witchcraft rituals and had strange psychic experiences as a result. Described here are the clairvoyant communications she received purporting to come from 'John Brakespeare', an eighteenth-century witch. The Rebirth of Witchcraft traces the lineage of the present-day witchcraft from its forerunners through to modern feminist neo-paganism and the new wave of interest in ecology and holistic medicine.