Download or read book The Church of the Fetishist written by Chris McDonald and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of the Fetishist is a Collection of Short Stories
Download or read book Church of the Fetishist written by Chris McDonald and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning was the Fetishist, and He was both Law and Chaosâ¦Law faces off with Chaos in an endless war that spans dark worlds of pleasure and pain. The familiar Earth is reflected and twisted across countless universes, each one a battlefield between the Fetishist, who embodies Law, and his father the Overseer, Chaos's greatest agent. These stories tell of sons betraying their tyrannical father, only to be punished with imprisonment and exile; the making of a new world by the Fetishist and the five Elder Dragons; the struggles of His most beloved creation, humanity; and recounts the climactic battles that lead from Armageddon to the place of the Fetishist's birth. Those most beloved are sacrificed, wars ravage the land, arcane sexual rituals govern the lives of both good and evil, and heroes fall only to rise again as devils. The Fetishist's Final Testament spans the Multiverse, from birth to death to resurrection, from the fall of would-be gods to the creation of something far greater. Law fights Chaos on the battlefields of blood and sex, lust and love, betrayal and redemption. Which side will you serve?
Download or read book The Untold Tales of the Church of the Fetishist written by Chris McDonald and published by Church of the Fetishist Sa. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Untold Tales: Volume II sheds additional light upon the trials and tribulations of the Lawful and the malefic machinations of the Chaotic as the opposing forces vie for domination of the Multiverse.
Download or read book The Untold Tales of the Church of the Fetishist Volume 2 written by Chris McDonald and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All ye bear witness to the creation of the Multiverse by a Celestial Centaur and its later corruption by his firstborn son, Urus. Many significant universes were subjected to Urus's power and maniacal machinations. This tyrant consolidated power through his Devices of Domination, and he subsequently became the supreme deity, known throughout the infiniteness of the Multiverse as the Overseer. Thou wilt learn of the Progenitor of Chaos's two chief lieutenants: the Elder and the Administrator. Thou shalt bear witness as all opposing forces are tested by these three titans of terror, who flex their control and cause capitulation. Orus, son of the Overseer and known as the Fetishist, and His Archangels bravely stand in resistance to these oppressors as they seek order and balance within the Multiverse. The Untold Tales weaves in and out of the narrative of Church of the Fetishist: The Final Testament, expounding upon the previously unknown stories of Chaotic corruption carried out by the Elder and Administrator--and the heroes of Law that remain unbowed.
Download or read book The Returns of Fetishism written by Charles de Brosses and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s term “fetishism” has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to “magic,” but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses’s term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Derrida. With this book, Daniel H. Leonard offers the first fully annotated English translation of the text that started it all, On the Worship of Fetish Gods, and Rosalind C. Morris offers incisive commentary that helps modern readers better understand it and its legacy. The product of de Brosses’s autodidactic curiosity and idiosyncratic theories of language, On the Worship of Fetish Gods is an enigmatic text that is often difficult for contemporary audiences to assess. In a thorough introduction to the text, Leonard situates de Brosses’s work within the cultural and intellectual milieu of its time. Then, Morris traces the concept of fetishism through its extraordinary permutations as it was picked up and transformed by the fields of philosophy, comparative religion, political economy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. Ultimately, she breaks new ground, moving into and beyond recent studies by thinkers such as William Pietz, Hartmut Böhme, and Alfonso Iacono through illuminating new discussions on topics ranging from translation issues to Africanity and the new materialisms.
Download or read book Magic and Fetishism written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes numerous examples of primitive religion and its impact upon social patterns in Polynesia.
Download or read book Ekklesia written by Paul Christopher Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable and adaptable collusion. Ekklesia sees in the settler states of North and South America alternative patterns of conjoined religious and political power, patterns resulting from the undertow of other gods, other peoples, and other claims to sovereignty. These local challenges have led to a continuously contested attempt to realize a church-minded state, a state-minded church, and the systems that develop in their concert. The shifting borders of their separation and the episodic conjoining of church and state took new forms in both theory and practice. The first of a closely linked trio of essays is by Paul Johnson, and offers a new interpretation of the Brazilian community gathered at Canudos and its massacre in 1896–97, carried out as a joint churchstate mission and spectacle. In the second essay, Pamela Klassen argues that the colonial churchstate relationship of Canada came into being through local and national practices that emerged as Indigenous nations responded to and resisted becoming “possessions” of colonial British America. Finally, Winnifred Sullivan’s essay begins with reflection on the increased effort within the United States to ban Bibles and scriptural references from death penalty courtrooms and jury rooms; she follows with a consideration of the political theological pressure thereby placed on the jury that decides between life and death. Through these three inquiries, Ekklesia takes up the familiar topos of “church and state” in order to render it strange.
Download or read book The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.
Download or read book The Problem of the Fetish written by William Pietz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Problem of the Fetish gathers William Pietz's innovative writing on the fetish object and the history of the "fetish" as a concept. Engaging extensively with historical documents, Pietz traces the genealogy of fetishism from encounters between European colonizers and African communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emerging social sciences. Discussing the role of fetishism in anthropology, political economy, psychiatry, and law, he analyzes the relationship between the fetish and value, violence, sacrifice, and debt. To accompany Pietz's seven essays, this long-awaited volume includes a foreword by Francesco Pellizzi, editor of RES, the journal in which several of the essays originally appeared, and it also includes an introduction by Stefanos Geroulanos and Ben Kafka, who provide an invaluable guide to Pietz's thought. This book will speak to Pietz's multidisciplinary readership, continuing his legacy of engaging with questions of material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introducing the work of a powerful theorist to new generations of scholars and thinkers"--
Download or read book Taboo written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Objects of Special Devotion written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of the study of fetishes and fetishism in the study of popular culture. Some of the essays cover rather "conventional" manifestations in the world today; others demonstrate the fetishistic qualities of some unusual items. But all illustrate without any doubt that, like the icon, the ritual, and many other items in society, fetishes, fetishism and fetishists must be studied and understood before we can begin to understand the complexity of present-day society.
Download or read book Art and Religion written by Josiah Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fetishism and Culture written by Hartmut Böhme and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartmut Böhme’s study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption, charting the mental, scientific and artistic processes through which fetishism became a central category in European culture’s account of itself.
Download or read book Taboo written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin and Development of Religious Belief Christianity written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecclesia Church problems considered in a series of essays ed by H R Reynolds written by Ecclesia and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
