Download or read book Echoes of a Forgotten Presence written by Mark Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echoes of a Forgotten Presence written by Mark Dickens and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of ten articles published between 2009 and 2016 by Mark Dickens on the Assyrian Church of the East in Central Asia, along with a new article on Mar Yahbalaha III, the only Turkic patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Most articles deal with the textual evidence for Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, including six on Christian manuscript fragments from Turfan (China) and two on gravestone inscriptions from Semirechye (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). As the volume title indicates, these articles remind us of the centuries-long presence of the Assyrian Church of the East at the centre of the Asian continent, now all but forgotten due to the general scarcity of sources from which this history can be reconstructed.
Download or read book Ethical Implications of One God written by Robert Petkovšek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The issue of the ethical implications of monotheism is a very relevant topic from the point of view of contemporary humanities and social science, and from the perspective of the cultural and political condition in Europe and at the global scale. Therefore a scientific book devoted to this subject makes a lot of sense. Throughout the history and in present times, monotheism has been subjected to several sharp criticisms. On the other hand, we find also very different evaluations of it. They stress its positive and even crucial contribution to peace, forming of rational, non-violent, tolerant culture and society, to the scientific, political and cultural development, to democracy etc. The book offers fresh interdisciplinary perspectives - mainly from the point of view of humanities - on the ethical aspects of monotheism, broadens the scientific understanding of it, and establishes a basis for resolving conflicts to which the understanding of monotheism is relevant or even decisive."--
Download or read book Uncovering the Pearl written by Amos Yong and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the series) moved along various routes to take root in Asia proper. Christianity in Asia is extraordinarily diverse, with very ancient forms of the faith dating to the time of the apostles. The western church will be enlightened by the dynamic, multi-pronged Asian story of Christianity. Asian Christianity is also distinct due to the numerous non-traditional, house, or cell movements found throughout the region. The diversity of Christianity in Asia makes Christians in this region critical for the future of global Christianity.
Download or read book Pre Islamic Survivals in Muslim Central Asia written by R. Charles Weller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ‘survivals’ from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic ‘degenerationists’ and Protestant anti-Catholic polemicists, back to its origins in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions as well as later more secularized forms in the German Enlightenment and Romanticist movements. These historical sources, particularly the ‘dual faith’ tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, significantly shaped both Tsarist and later Soviet ethnography of Muslim Central Asia, helping guide and justify their respective religious missionary, social-legal, political and other imperial agendas. They continue impacting post-Soviet historiography in complex and debated ways. Drawing from European, Central Asian, Middle Eastern and world history, the fields of ethnography and anthropology, as well as Christian and Islamic studies, the volume contributes to scholarship on ‘syncretism’ and ‘conversion’, definitions of Islam, history as identity and heritage, and more. It is situated within a broader global historical frame, addressing debates over ‘pre-Islamic Survivals’ among Turkish and Iranian as well as Egyptian, North African Berber, Black African and South Asian Muslim Peoples while critiquing the legacy of the Geertzian ‘cultural turn’ within Western post-colonialist scholarship in relation to diverging trends of historiography in the post-World War Two era.
Download or read book Artifact Text Context written by Li Tang and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of papers highlighting recent researches on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. The topics range from artifacts to texts and their historical contexts, covering the period from the 7th to the 18th century. As the studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central advance, focus has shifted from a general historical survey and textual translation to a more micro and meticulous study of specific concepts and terms and particular names of persons and places.
Download or read book Silk Road Traces written by LIT Verlag and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes cutting-edge research on the spread of Syrian Christianity along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 14th century. Recent archaeological discoveries and excavations of ancient and medieval Christian sites in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China shed new light on Christian communities in Central Asia, China and Mongolia. Scholars from such fields as archaeology, manuscript studies, history and theology have contributed, offering new insights into the influence of Syriac Christianity along the Silk Roads. Li Tang is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria. Dietmar W. Winkler is Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East (ZECO), University of Salzburg/Austria
Download or read book The Making of Syriac Jerusalem written by Catalin-Stefan Popa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations, East and West Syrians. Popa analyses the question of Syrian beliefs about the Holy City, their interaction with holy places, and how they travelled in the Holy Land. He also explores how they imagined and reflected the theology of this itinerary through literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, set alongside a well-defined local tradition that was at times at odds with Jerusalem. Even though the image of Jerusalem as a land of sacred spaces is unanimously accepted in the history of Christianity, there were also various competing positions and attitudes. This often promoted the attempt at mitigating and replacing Jerusalem’s sacred centrality to the Christian experience with local sacred heritage, which is also explored in this study. Popa argues that despite this rhetoric of artificial boundaries, the general picture epitomises a fluid and animated intersection of Syriac Christians with the Holy City especially in the medieval era and the subsequent period, through a standardised process of pilgrimage, well-integrated in the custom of advanced Christian life and monastic canon. The Making of Syriac Jerusalem is suitable for students and scholars working on the history, literature, and theology of Syriac Christianity in the late antique and medieval periods.
Download or read book A History of Early Christian Creeds written by Wolfram Kinzig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of early Christian creeds contains an up-to-date account of their origin and development from the credal texts in the New Testament to the fully fledged classical formulae of the 4th century. It includes the creeds’ use and alteration in subsequent periods until the time of Charlemagne and the beginnings of the filioque controversy. In addition, the author provides a scholarly commentary on the most common ancient confessions: the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed. Going beyond previous studies, the book contains chapters dedicated to the use of creeds in law, art, music, everyday life and even magic. Recently discovered source texts, such as a new Ethiopic version of the Roman Creed and a short recension of the Creed of Nicaea-Constantinople, receive extensive treatment. Credal developments in the eastern churches beyond the borders of the Roman Empire complete this comprehensive overview. This volume is intended both as a textbook for advanced students of theology and cognate disciplines and as a reference book on the creeds in a wide range of contexts. All source texts are accompanied by modern English translations.
Download or read book Echoes of War Box Set written by Samantha Grosser and published by Sam Grosser Books. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 2366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Time and Place A brief encounter changes two lives forever in a moving novel of loss, courage, and hope. In the shadow of the war raging in Europe, a brief encounter changes two lives forever as a passionate affair begins. But it doesn’t last long. When Tom is shot down over Europe, he must struggle to survive. Left waiting in England, all Anna can do is hope he's still alive. Until she discovers her mother is keeping secrets and then it is a race against time. From the hardships of a war-weary England to the dangers of occupied France, this is an emotional love story like no other. The Last Goodbye She was in love with an American airman. Decades later, her secret will change another woman’s life. A love born in wartime. A secret that spans generations. In the chaos of 1944 Isobel meets the love of her life. In 2014, Emma inherits a house from a mysterious benefactor. Emma’s search for the truth uncovers a shocking family legacy. And as long-held secrets come slowly to light, she begins to realise that sometimes goodbye can herald a new beginning. An unforgettable and heart-wrenching dual timeline novella that will stay with you long after turning the final page. The Officer’s Affair For some the war never truly ends … She was in love with the wrong man. When Rachel’s husband returns from the war broken and angry, Rachel begins to lose all hope for their future together, despite her efforts to revive a love she once thought would never die. Then she meets an officer who served with her husband in the war, and finds herself falling impossibly in love. As she grapples with an agonizing choice between duty and desire, she learns that sometimes the saddest love stories are the most unforgettable. In a world ravaged by war, love, loyalty and impossible choices intertwine in a heartbreaking novel of forbidden passion and the ghosts of the past. Out of the Ashes She is in love with the enemy. In the shadow of war-torn Europe, a young war widow risks losing everything she has. Amidst the ruins of World War II, a grieving war widow finds solace in the most unexpected place – a prisoner of war who challenges everything she thought she knew. But when their secret is exposed, Clare risks losing all she has. Shunned by family and friends for illegal faternisation with the enemy, she faces an impossible decision that could tear her world apart. A compelling and bittersweet tale of love, loyalty, and the power of secrets.
Download or read book Forgotten written by Crescent Abendstern and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the book of Enoch,Appolyon is a novel about Sila, a young man from Kenya living with his family at camp Tembo in the Tsavo. He is accidentally trapped by angels and introduced to a new and enchanting world but ends up in the middle of an age old war between angels loyal to Haven and the rebels. The novel talks of real places but the events and characters are fictional.
Download or read book Echo s Voice written by Mary Noonan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. She was by no means alone in this. Cixous's plays, along with those of Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), Marguerite Duras (1914-96), and Noelle Renaude (1949-), among others, have proved potent in drawing participants into a dynamic 'space of the voice'. If, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice represents a transitional condition between body and language, such plays may draw their audiences in to understandings previously never spoken. In this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self.
Download or read book Echoes of Eternity written by Stev Laksmana and published by Dimas Publisher. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the mist-shrouded woods and embark on a chilling journey in "Echoes of Eternity," where Amelia Sinclair, a daring archaeologist, receives an enigmatic invitation to explore an abandoned mansion steeped in haunting mystery. With rumors of lingering spirits and a dark curse, Amelia's curiosity is piqued, driving her to uncover the secrets concealed within the eerie halls.
Download or read book Romanticism Memory and Mourning written by Mark Sandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning could not be timelier with Zizek’s recent proclamation that we are ’living in the end times’ and in an era which is preoccupied with the process and consequences of ageing. We mourn both for our pasts and futures as we now recognise that history is a continuation and record of loss. Mark Sandy explores the treatment of grief, loss, and death across a variety of Romantic poetic forms, including the ballad, sonnet, epic, elegy, fragment, romance, and ode in the works of poets as diverse as Smith, Hemans, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Clare. Romantic meditations on grief, however varied in form and content, are self-consciously aware of the complexity and strength of feelings surrounding the consolation or disconsolation that their structures of poetic memory afford those who survive the imaginary and actual dead. Romantic mourning, Sandy shows, finds expression in disparate poetic forms, and how it manifests itself both as the spirit of its age, rooted in precise historical conditions, and as a proleptic power, of lasting transhistorical significance. Romantic meditations on grief and loss speak to our contemporary anxieties about the inevitable, but unthinkable, event of death itself.
Download or read book Whispers in the Shadows written by PRXDUM and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the depths of darkness with "Whispers in the Shadows," a chilling tale that will haunt your every thought long after you turn the final page. Set in the secluded village of Ravenswood, this atmospheric thriller follows a group of intrepid adventurers as they uncover the secrets lurking within the shadows of an abandoned mansion. As whispers of an ancient curse echo through the fog-drenched streets, the teenagers are drawn into a world of mystery and intrigue, where every creaking floorboard and rustling leaf seems to conceal a sinister secret. With each step they take, they risk awakening forces beyond their comprehension, forces that have lain dormant for centuries, waiting for unsuspecting souls to stumble upon their lair. As the night unfolds,
Download or read book The Explorer s Journal written by TEMYKA MCAFEE and published by TEMYKA MCAFEE. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Explorer's Journal: Tales of Exploration and Discovery" invites readers on a thrilling expedition through the pages of history and adventure. This captivating collection of stories documents the courageous journeys and remarkable discoveries of intrepid explorers from around the world. From traversing uncharted territories to unraveling ancient mysteries, each narrative captures the spirit of exploration and the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Join us as we embark on a riveting voyage of discovery, where every turn of the page unveils a new frontier waiting to be explored in "The Explorer's Journal."
Download or read book Art and Sustainability written by Sacha Kagan and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, and to re-awaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years, and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process.
