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From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.
Author : Eric Burns
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592134823
From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.
Author : Robert Buchert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Broadsides
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Author : F. S. Naiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190232714
Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the 18th century. Two leading views on sacrifice have dominated the subject: the psychological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological one by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne. These two perspectives have argued that the main feature of sacrifice is allaying feelings of guilt at the slaughter of sacrificial animals. Naiden redresses the omission of these salient features to show that animal sacrifice is an attempt to make contact with a divine being, and that it is so important for the worshippers that it becomes subject to regulations of unequaled extent and complexity.
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Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Science
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Author : George Amos Dorsey
Publisher : Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1904
Category : History
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Author : John D. Currid
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433531836
What is the relationship between the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern mythology? Currid examines the evidence, arguing that the Old Testament is highly polemical as he stresses differentiation over continuity.
Author : Everett M. Hunt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453545697
PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is the fi rst book in the PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON adventure series. PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is about a dreamer of cosmic adventure who turned his dreams into reality. He was born into an unlikely time for space fl ight. When Thomas Jefferson was President the frontier was still east of Buffalo. The only way to reach this distant land was afoot or by horse. But there were other worlds whose time lines of development were not like our own. On some of these worlds the present state of Earth was in their dim past. About the time of the Mayfl ower, three travelers, exiles from the planet Oman, a world on the opposite spiral arm of Caleeron, their name for the Milky Way, crash land their craft atop a butte in what later became Monument Valley. They were unable to leave Earth and dispersed among humanity to live out their lives. The year is now 1805, and Pitus Peston, an eighteen year old farmer's son endowed with a linguistic genius, discovers an old wampum belt bearing a strange image. It stirs his soul and he believes that the image on the belt is otherworldly and he determines to uncover its secret. Through an accumulation of clues he works his way toward solving the secret of the gods of Oman.
Author : Hu Liqun
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release :
Category : Art
ISBN : 1304390039
The moon is high in the sky, and there are no clouds in Wan Li. The bright moonlight illuminates the earth and puts a beautiful veil on the whole Zi Long Mountain
Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472220977
No comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion at all, featuring the gods as literary characters. His humor was traditionally viewed as a symptom of decreased religiosity, but that model of religious decline in the second century CE has been invalidated by ancient historians. Understanding these works now requires understanding what it means to imagine as laughing and laughable gods who are worshipped in everyday cult. In Lucian's Laughing Gods, author Inger N. I. Kuin argues that in ancient Greek thought, comedic depictions of divinities were not necessarily desacralizing. In religion, laughter was accommodated to such an extent as to actually be constituent of some ritual practices, and the gods were imagined either to reciprocate or push back against human laughter—they were never deflated by it. Lucian uses the gods as comic characters, but in doing so, he does not automatically negate their power. Instead, with his depiction of the gods and of how they relate to humans—frivolous, insecure, callous—Lucian challenges the dominant theologies of his day as he refuses to interpret the gods as ethical models. This book contextualizes Lucian’s comedic performances in the intellectual life of the second century CE Roman East broadly, including philosophy, early Christian thought, and popular culture (dance, fables, standard jokes, etc.). His texts are analyzed as providing a window onto non-elite attitudes and experiences, and methodologies from religious studies and the sociology of religion are used to conceptualize Lucian’s engagement with the religiosity of his contemporaries.
Author : Bob Ping
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1449087116
This book is about the major changes taking place as the world begins to make the transition from the Modern to the Postmodern Era, especially those changes that are already affecting Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The author takes the reader through an account of how certain beliefs are formed -- including beliefs in magic, superstition, myth, legend, and morality. This is followed by a discussion of the world's present state of affairs and projections for the future. Finally, the reader is presented with the challenges that will most likely face each religion as this new world unfolds.