Book Description
From bigotry to empathy, this is the true story of a conservative Christian attempting to find the answers. And it all begins with two words. "I'm Gay."
Author : Timothy Kurek
Publisher : Green Bridge Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Christian gay men
ISBN : 9780983567745
From bigotry to empathy, this is the true story of a conservative Christian attempting to find the answers. And it all begins with two words. "I'm Gay."
Author : Victoria Flanagan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136777288
Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s narratives, raising a number of significant issues relating to the ideological construction of masculinity and femininity in books for younger readers. Many literary and cultural critics have studied the cultural significance of adult cross-dressing, yet although cross-dressing representations are plentiful in children’s literature and film, very little critical attention has been paid to this subject to date. Into the Closet fills this critical gap. Cross-dressing demonstrates how gender is symbolically constructed through various items of clothing and apparel. It also has the ability to deconstruct notions of problematizing the relationship between sex and gender. Into the Closet is an important book for academics, teachers, and parents because it demonstrates how cross-dressing, rather than being taboo, is frequently used in children’s literature and film as a strategy to educate (or enculturate) children about gender.
Author : Obert Skye
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805097538
The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from Star Wars and Harry Potter. Rob names him "Potterwookiee" ("Hairy" for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend. Great laughs and great books help Rob along the way.
Author : Obert Skye
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805092684
Twelve-year-old Rob has stuffed his closet with old laboratory experiments, unread books, and more, and when a creature emerges from that chaos causing a great deal of trouble, Rob has to do such horrible things as visit a library and speak at a school assembly to set things right again.
Author : Joshua Ryan Butler
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052910055X
How can a loving God send people to hell? Isn’t it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God? What is up with holy war in the Old Testament? Many of us fear God has some skeletons in the closet. Hell, judgment, and holy war are hot topics for the Christian faith that have a way of igniting fierce debate far and wide. These hard questions leave many wondering whether God is really good and can truly be trusted. The Skeletons in God's Closet confronts our popular caricatures of these difficult topics with the beauty and power of the real thing. Josh Butler reveals that these subjects are consistent with, rather than contradictory to, the goodness of God. He explores Scripture to reveal the plotlines that make sense of these tough topics in light of God’s goodness. From fresh angles, Josh deals powerfully with such difficult passages as: The Lake of Fire Lazarus and the Rich Man The Slaughter of Canaanites in the Old Testament Ultimately, The Skeletons in God's Close uses our toughest questions to provoke paradigm shifts in how we understand our faith as a whole. It pulls the “skeletons out of God’s closet” to reveal they were never really skeletons at all.
Author : Paul L. Maier
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1418529907
When an ancient skeleton is discovered in Israel, will it shed new light on the life of Jesus or plunge the world into chaos? Dr. Jonathan Weber, Harvard professor and biblical scholar, is looking forward to his sabbatical year on an archaeological dig in Israel. But a spectacular find that seems to be an archaeologist’s dream-come-true becomes a nightmare that many fear will be the death rattle of Christianity. Carefully researched and compellingly written, A Skeleton in God’s Closet explores the tension between faith and doubt when science and religion collide. In the end, it’s a thought-provoking page-turner, driven by one man’s determination to find the truth—no matter the cost.
Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438459033
The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research. Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privatenessrecognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibilityeach mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and womens and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research.
Author : Sarah Darer Littman
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142405970
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award! An "eleven-going-on-twelve-year-old Jewish girl" searches for her identity in what Publisher's Weekly called a "reassuring debut novel about finding one's personal peace-and-comfort zone." Justine Silver's best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister, has given up chocolate for Lent, but Justine doesn't think God wants her to make that kind of sacrifice. So she's decided to give up being Jewish instead. Eleven-year-old Justine pours her heart out to her teddy bear, "Father Ted," in a homemade closet confessional. But when Justine's beloved Bubbe suffers a stroke, Justine worries that her religious exploration is responsible. Worse, she must suddenly contemplate life without Bubbe. Ultimately, it's Bubbe's quiet understanding of Justine's search for identity that helps Justine to find faith in the most important place of all-within herself.
Author : Fritz Liedtke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Eating disorders
ISBN : 9781491020784
Intimate portraits of women and men struggling with the secrets of anorexia and bulimia is both fine art monograph and memoir.
Author : B. J. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Troy Book Makersdivision of Sanval
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Conservative Judaism
ISBN : 9781935534426
The Chameleon in the Closet traces the universal journey parents take as their children try to find their place in the world. When her older son broke with his Conservative Jewish upbringing and plunged into Orthodoxy, BJ Rosenfeld was confronted with the challenge of accepting or rejecting his rigorous beliefs. Somewhere along the way she became a chameleon changing her clothing and demeanor, not at whim, but to suit the situation and the circumstances. Her closet now contains two distinct wardrobes: shorts, slacks and sleeveless tops for the world she lives in; long skirts and long-sleeved blouses for the world in which her sons both exist. With candor, passion and humor, The Chameleon in the Closet gives the reader a fascinating glimpse inside the world of Orthodox Judaism. This memoir is a unique tribute to all parents who stand behind their children's life-altering decisions