Download or read book Liberation and the Cosmos written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich legacy of black critical thought, creative expression, and religious reflection come together in these creatively imagined conversations between the elders about the shape and conditions of Black liberation. Barbara A. Holmes has defined key issues of freedom and identity, hypothesizing a meeting of the ancestors assembled "on the other side" to discuss them. Imagine a conversation between Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall on what freedom looks like in relation to law and politics. Or, between Tupac Shakur, Nina Simone, and James Baldwin on art, culture, and liberation. Malcolm X and Harriet Tubman discuss freedom and wholeness, while Audre Lorde, Fannie Lou Hamer, and George Washington Carver talk about liberated bodies. These imagined dialogues open up rich reflection and insight and offer a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation down through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.

Download or read book Race and the Cosmos written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that theoretical physics and cosmology can provide a key to overcoming race-related problems, explaining how they enable a means for discussing individual and communal quests for fulfillment beyond racial, ethnic, class, and sexual barriers. Original.

Download or read book Philosophy of Liberation written by Enrique Dussel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentinean philosopher, theologian, and historian Enrique Dussel understands the present international order as divided into the "culture of the center" -- by which he means the ruling elite of Europe, North America, and Russia -- and "the peoples of the periphery" -- by which he means the populations of Latin America, Africa, and part of Asia, and the oppressed classes (including women and children) throughout the world. In 'Philosophy of Liberation,' he presents a profound analysis of the alienation of peripheral peoples resulting from the imperialism of the center for more than five centuries. Dussel's aim is to demonstrate that the center's historic cultural, military, and economic domination of poor countries is 'philosophically' founded on North Atlantic onthology. By expressing supposedly universal knowledge, European philosophies, argues Dussel, have served to equate the cultural standards, modes of behavior, and rationalistic orientation of the West with human nature and to condemn the unique characteristics of peripheral peoples as "nonbeing, nothing, chaos, irrationality." Hence, Western philosophies have historically legitimated and hidden the domination that oppressed cultures have suffered at the hands of the center. Dussel probes multinational corporations, the communications media, and the armies of the center with their counterparts among the Third World elite. The creation of a just world order in the future, according to Dussel, hinges on the liberation of the periphery, based on a philosophy that is able to "think the world" from the perspective of the poor and to reclaim the Third World's distinct cultural inheritance, which is imbedded in the popular cultures of the poor. Apart from the liberation of the periphery, there will be no future: "the center will feed itself on the sameness it has ingrained within itself. The death of the child, of the poor, will be its own death." This is a disquieting but stimulating book for scholars and advanced students of philosophy, ethics, liberation theology, and global politics.

Download or read book Spiritual Liberation written by Michael Bernard Beckwith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual leader featured in The Secret challenges readers to search within themselves for the key to unlocking their future and changing their lives in amazing ways, in a book that teaches inner spiritual work, rather than religiosity or dogma, and is structured around the key themes of transformation, peace, abundance, and more. Original.

Download or read book The Tao of Liberation written by Mark Hathaway and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from quantum physics, deep ecology, and the new cosmology, they articulate a new vision of liberating action. Hathaway and Boff lay out a path of spiritual renewal, ecological transformation, and authentic liberation.

Download or read book The Buddha Womb and the way to Liberation written by Bodo Balsys and published by Universal Dharma Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddha-Womb and the way to Liberation This volume resolves the ontology from the two previous volumes concerning the concept of a ‘subtle self’. First a commentary of the Tantra Great Gates of Diamond Liberation, that presents detailed information concerning the nature of the Heart, Throat, Diaphragm, and Splenic centres I and II. This adds to what was earlier provided on the Solar Plexus, Sacral and Base of Spine centres. The focus of this book concerns the attributes of the Sambhogakāya Flower, utilising The Uttaratantra of Maitreya and the Buddha’s testimony, thus revealing an esoteric doctrine that has been veiled in Buddhist scriptures.

Download or read book Luther and Liberation written by Walter Altmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant. Luther and Liberation recovers the liberating and revolutionary impact of Luther’s theology, read afresh from the perspective of the Latin American context. Altmann provides a much-needed reassessment of Luther’s significance today through a direct engagement of Luther’s historical situation with an eye keenly situated on the deeply contextual situation of the contemporary reader, giving a localized reading from the author’s own experience in Latin America. The work examines with fresh vigor Luther’s central theological commitments, such as his doctrine of God, Christology, justification, hermeneutics, and ecclesiology, and his forays into economics, politics, education, violence, and war. This new edition greatly expands the original text with fresh scholarship and updated sources, footnotes, and bibliography, and contains several additional new chapters on Luther’s doctrine of God, theology of the sacraments, his controversial perspective on the Jews, and a new comparative account with the Latin American liberation theology tradition.

Download or read book The Big Bang and God written by Chandra Wickramasinghe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As advanced by astronomer-cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomy, biology, astrobiology, astrophysics, and cosmology converge agreeably with natural theology. In The Big Bang and God, these interdisciplinary convergences are developed by an astronomer collaborating with a theologian.

Download or read book The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Efrosyni Boutsikas examines ancient Greek religious performances, intricately orchestrated displays comprising topography, architecture, space, cult, and myth. These various elements were unified in a way that integrated the body within cosmic space and made the sacred extraordinary. Boutsikas also explores how natural light or the night-sky may have assisted in intensifying the experience of these rituals, and how they may have determined ancient perceptions of the cosmos. The author's digital and virtual reconstructions of ancient skyscapes and religious structures during such occurrences unveil a deeper understanding of the importance of time and place in religious experience. Boutsikas shows how they shaped emotions, cosmological beliefs, and ritual memory of the participants. Her study revolutionises our understanding on ancient emotionality and cognitive experience, demonstrating how Greek religious spaces were vibrant arenas of a shared experience of the cosmos.

Download or read book An Old Testament Theology written by Bruce K. Waltke and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even more than a theological and prophetic backdrop to the New Testament. Beyond these, the Old Testament is inspired revelation of the very nature, character, and works of God. As renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke writes in the preface of this book, the Old Testament’s every sentence is “fraught with theology, worthy of reflection.” This book is the result of decades of reflection informed by an extensive knowledge of the Hebrew language, the best of critical scholarship, a deep understanding of both the content and spirit of the Old Testament, and a thoroughly evangelical conviction. Taking a narrative, chronological approach to the text, Waltke employs rhetorical criticism to illuminate the theologies of the biblical narrators. Through careful study, he shows that the unifying theme of the Old Testament is the “breaking in of the kingdom of God.” This theme helps the reader better understand not only the Old Testament, but also the New Testament, the continuity of the entire Bible, and ultimately, God himself.

Download or read book Liberation written by Daniel R Hogan Jr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoned to a distant Galaxy in a troubled Universe by a strange being, a man from the present, a man from the future, and an Indian girl from the past are transported to a flexible time of creation to right a wrong. With the aid of a beautiful entity they encounter the Rainbow People to dissuade them from the self-destruction of Liberation. The ego driven Constructors in defiance to the Creator of All in an attempt to erase their mistake created the Liberation shield and its false religion. The evil Gravament planet, the hideous Keeper, the dreaded Dogalaks, and the monstrosity of a Living Brain, must be overcome. The birth of self-determination and free-will as divinely intended by the Creator is the result for all life. Freedom is everything.

Download or read book Hope for the Oppressor written by Patrick Oden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their need for freedom and how to seek this freedom in their own contexts. Patrick Oden provides a holistic biblical, historical, and theological analysis that diagnoses the underlying motivations and inclinations that lead to oppression. Part one addresses the context of oppression, in which most participants in oppression do not actively seek to harm others but are caught up in systems that tend toward the diminishment of others. Part two examines the biblical and early Christian response to oppression, discovering a thread that avoids condemning participation in society generally while also cautioning the people of God about being co-opted by society. Part three discusses how oppressors can withdraw from oppression, through a constructive analysis of four contemporary theologians—Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jürgen Moltmann, Sarah Coakley, and Jean Vanier—each of whom contributes to a widening vision of liberated and liberating life in which the once-oppressed and former oppressor can find peace together in community.

Download or read book Cosmos and Psyche written by Richard Tarnas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to demonstrate the existence of a direct connection between the planetary movements and human history, and examines such ancient and modern events as the French Revolution and September 11th.

Download or read book Cosmoknights written by Hannah Templer and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan's life used to be very small. Work in her dad's body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn't even matter that Tara was a princess... until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, when a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep, she finds that life might not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world... and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down.

Download or read book Joy Unspeakable written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. This mystical aspect of the black church is deeply implicated in the well-being of African American people but is not the focus of their intentional reflection. Moreover, its traditions are deeply ensconced within the historical memory of the wider society and can be found in Coltrane's riffs, Malcolm's exhortations, the social activism of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. The research in this book-through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices. A groundbreaking work in its original edition, Joy Unspeakable now appears in a new, revised edition to address the effects of this contemplative tradition on activism and politics and to speak to a new generation of readers and scholars.

Download or read book Project Liberation written by Shubhra Chaturvedi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is my current ever evolving perspective & understanding of me and the cosmos. Life has taken me and pushed me on quite a journey and this is just the beginning, when I look back I see the pain that I went through as a blessing. I see every person that came into my life as a teacher, whether they taught me love or caused me pain. Because I know today that if even one of those beings did not cross my path I would not be where I am today. With every day that passes by, I see clearer through the veil that has been constructed and coded for us to perceive the world the way we do. Every moment to me is a continuous and exciting mystery to what I can find and reveal to the best of my understanding. I have also understood that no matter what we do unless a cosmic disclosure happens there is very less chance of finding the ultimate truth unless the journey is inward. I almost feel like I am remembering what I already know and losing the amnesia through the course of the last two years. Once you understand tthe game it''s easy to navigate by. Everything is at its dual best. You can change at any moment because when you understand the dark you also understand the light. It''s a pendulum as Osho says. In those moments you understand the beautiful engineering....you are a tiny speck or the wave till you understand that you are the ocean as well! The tiniest speck of light hits you and you know that the darkness has already started to flee. It''s this romantic relationship you start to get intrigued by, constantly curious. You feel at one with everything that exists! It''s never too late. When I was a child mazes scared me and intrigued me, but slowly I understood that the journey has to be enjoyed without fear but with wonderment, you manifest how you feel. To tell you the truth for me as a person, my intuition and innate knowing is enough to be able to expand my awareness. But in today''s world we as a race look towards science for answers. Obviously finding justifications to my understanding from a scientific perspective qualify to me as eureka moments. Unfortunately the scientific information that has reached the mass has been filtered at many levels and alternative scientist were killed and looked down upon for the longest time as they did not fit into the structured brackets. Geniuses like Nikola Tesla had such a clear understanding on natural frequencies but were just born much before their time. Thankfully we are at a place where scientists like Stephen Hawkings, Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden that are constantly working and reworking on their own theories which reflects their intent being much bigger than their ego, as change is the only constant, challenging our own understandings is the only way to be. I know innately that science and spirituality are two sides of the same coin and thankfully that is what my research points towards as well. Based on a lot of research, personal experiences and digging deeper into my own self I decided to make a journal/ Chronicle / Ephemeris of my journey so far. The idea is to hack iinto the new world and introduce you to the wonderful changes that are currently taking place in the world right now and some that have long existed but are being revisited to mark the beginning of The Golden Age. This book is a random journal which will include parts of books, documentaries, videos and my own learning. While I started writing I realized that the one thing I am good at is collaging. I like abstract, crazy and intense which pretty much sums who I am. These are the questions I had, which not many were able to give me answers to. Obviously what I studied in school (or I didn''t :p) wasn''t of much help. I had to self-learn this time around, as per my compass, inner calling and questions. It led me to the most beautiful places and revelations.It is time to unlearn and put on a new lens. At the end of it, it''s all a paradox and the truth that we think is prevalent today might not be valid tomorrow.

Download or read book Epistemic Decolonization written by D.A. Wood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing. Recently, many scholars and activists have come to ask: Are there ways in which knowledge might be decolonized? Epistemic Decolonization examines a variety of such projects from a critical and philosophical perspective. The book introduces the unfamiliar reader to the wide variety of approaches to the topic at hand, providing concrete examples along the way. It argues that the predominant contemporary approach to epistemic decolonization leads one into various intractable theoretical and practical problems. The book then closely investigates the political and scientific work of Frantz Fanon and Amílcar Cabral, demonstrating how their philosophical commitments can help lead one out of the practical and theoretical issues faced by the current, predominant orientation, and concludes by forging links between their work and that of some contemporary feminist epistemologists.