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Book Intimate Visions

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  • Author : Miles Barth
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Intimate Visions written by Miles Barth and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexual Visions

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  • Author : L. J. Jordanova
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780299122942
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Sexual Visions written by L. J. Jordanova and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that gender as a metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of biological and medical sciences.

Book Intimate Visions

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  • Author : Bill Posner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Intimate Visions written by Bill Posner and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I invite you to feel...what I see." --Bill Posner I am an Image Artisan whose motivation comes from the world around me and the world with in me. I intimate images mainly from the Pacific Northwest. This is a personal collection I've put together to allow the viewer to own a collection of my work, without having to decide on one or two wall displays.

Book Intimate Reading

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  • Author : Jessica Barr
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2020-04-20
  • ISBN : 0472131699
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Jessica Barr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Book Divine Sex

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  • Author : Jonathan Grant
  • Publisher : Brazos Press
  • Release : 2015-07-14
  • ISBN : 1441227164
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Divine Sex written by Jonathan Grant and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the convictions of our age. In this book, a fresh new voice offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing from his pastoral experience with young people and from cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern sexuality.

Book Refracted Visions

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  • Author : Karen Strassler
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-20
  • ISBN : 0822391546
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Refracted Visions written by Karen Strassler and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album. In Refracted Visions, Karen Strassler argues that popular photographic practices such as these have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Contending that photographic genres cultivate distinctive ways of seeing and positioning oneself and others within the affective, ideological, and temporal location of Indonesia, she examines genres ranging from state identification photos to pictures documenting family rituals. Oriented to projects of selfhood, memory, and social affiliation, popular photographs recast national iconographies in an intimate register. They convey the longings of Indonesian national modernity: nostalgia for rural idylls and “tradition,” desires for the trappings of modernity and affluence, dreams of historical agency, and hopes for political authenticity. Yet photography also brings people into contact with ideas and images that transcend and at times undermine a strictly national frame. Photography’s primary practitioners in the postcolonial era have been Chinese Indonesians. Acting as cultural brokers who translate global and colonial imageries into national idioms, these members of a transnational minority have helped shape the visual contours of Indonesian belonging even as their own place within the nation remains tenuous. Refracted Visions illuminates the ways that everyday photographic practices generate visual habits that in turn give rise to political subjects and communities.

Book Intimate Alien

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  • Author : David J. Halperin
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-24
  • ISBN : 1503612120
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Intimate Alien written by David J. Halperin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species. In the 1960s, Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life's mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies, with traditions of heavenly journeys his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike. From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It's a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier, our own inner space.

Book Visions

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  • Author : Eddie Ensley
  • Publisher : Loyola Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780829414271
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Visions written by Eddie Ensley and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACCOUNTS OF SPIRITUAL VISIONS.

Book Garland of Visions

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  • Author : Jinah Kim
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2021-02-16
  • ISBN : 0520343212
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Garland of Visions written by Jinah Kim and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge—ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious—and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.

Book Intimate Visions

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  • Author : Giovanni Porfido
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Intimate Visions written by Giovanni Porfido and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intimate Visions

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  • Author : Bill Posner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-10-17
  • ISBN : 9781006385544
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Intimate Visions written by Bill Posner and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover Edition. The Yaquina Bay Bridge, in Newport Oregon, on the Oregon Coast, has been an icon in the Pacific Northwest since its construction in 1934. It has also been an attraction to artisans of all types, from all over the world. The images in this book are my interpretations and captures of this amazing structure.

Book The Book of Margery Kempe

Download or read book The Book of Margery Kempe written by Margery Kempe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.

Book Visions of Heaven and Hell

Download or read book Visions of Heaven and Hell written by John Bunyan and published by Sovereign Grace Publishers,. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the wicked have traveled a course of sin, and discover they have reason to fear the God;s judgement and wrath for their sins, they begin to wish there is no God to punish them, then by degrees they persuade themselves there is no God, and then they set themselves to study the arguments to support their opinion. This excellent book by John Bunyan covers the subject matter of the existence of heaven and hell as well as studies and dispells the arguments presented by sinners who argue there is no heaven and hell. Most do not know that Bunyan wrote some 60 books, and poetry too. And also almost a well-kept secret is that his doctrine was so biblically laced that many good men would call him too severe. He believed in, and taught, ALL the doctrines of grace, including double-predestination, or reprobation. Why then is he not smeared with the name of hyper-Calvinist like Goodwin, Gill, and others? I guess the same people ought to call Luther a hyper-Lutheran, for he believed and taught it, too. Why begin a review of Bunyan's writings with such a view of his doctrine? It is to show that a Pilgrim's Progress can come only from someone who believes and teaches ALL the counsel of God, without flinching, yea, with loving-kindness. Illegally, He sat in a jail cell over a river for 12 years with his Bible, Galatians by Luther, and another book or two. He had the choice of feeling miserable and murmuring, or of filling his time, thoughts, and energies with studying that Bible, and seeking a way to be of help to his more comfortable, but less dedicated, brothers and sisters. Listen, dear saints, you can't do any better than reading Bunyan. Like Gurnall, he covers everything here and there, and with a sweetness that can come only from God. What a shame that his large heart should be encased in such small print. But, like digging gold, it is worth the time and trouble to dig spiritual gold. Bunyan (1628-1688) rose from an humble beginning to being a preacher to a little house church, to 12 years in jail because he would not agree to quit preaching, to a huge church in London. He wrote 66 books, nearly all while in jail.

Book Revisionary Gleam

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  • Author : Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780853238041
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Revisionary Gleam written by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study includes much new information on Thomas De Quincey and his critical engagement with Coleridge, Wordsworth, Burke, Kant and others. The author subtly and convincingly brings overlooked dimensions of De Quincey’s politics to the fore, and examines essays often ignored. The impressive reading of the Liverpool circle and the 1803 Diary should lead to reassessments of this period in De Quincey’s development.

Book Intimate Stranger

Download or read book Intimate Stranger written by Breyten Breytenbach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to a young writer, Intimate Stranger is an eclectic and generous work flowing with insight and wit. Breytenbach's candid and provocative reflections on reading and writing guide without guiding, open mental channels, surprise, and inspire. A stirring glimpse into the mind of an artist, Intimate Stranger is a river of experience and visions, brimming with sleights of tongue and overshifting in mood. This genre-defying gem makes manifest Einstein's assertion: "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Book Moving Subjects

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  • Author : Tony Ballantyne
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0252075684
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Moving Subjects written by Tony Ballantyne and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire

Book New Visions

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  • Author : steven harris
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-04-13
  • ISBN : 1326245546
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book New Visions written by steven harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the short story is an art, then Steven Harris understands that and has made use of a wide palette in creating his 'New Visions'." Louise Crossley From the author of Fiction Burns comes this latest collection of short stories, New Visions. With the introduction by Louise Crossley, there are twenty eight stories in all, some previously included in his 2009 anthology And Other Stories, others completely new, but all uniquely Harris.