Download or read book Lovescapes Mapping the Geography of Love written by Duncan S. Ferguson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovescapes introduces the reader to the various meanings and manifestations of love and its many cognates such as compassion, caring, altruism, empathy, and forgiveness. It addresses how love and compassion have been understood in history and the religions of the world. It goes on to explore the ways that our environments and heredity influence our capacity to love and suggests ways to cultivate love and compassion in one's life. The book shows how the values of love and compassion are integral to finding humane solutions to the daunting problems we face as individuals, as a human family, and as an earth community--a world in crisis. Lovescapes has the following features: -Describing how love is the essence of the divine, and therefore the ground of reality -Understanding the meaning of love and its place in our lives -Learning how love and compassion have been understood across history, culture, and tradition -Gaining insight about how to increase our capacity to love and show compassion -Discerning how love and compassion can be applied in all aspects of our lives, in the regions where we live, and in our global setting.

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Download or read book Lovescape written by Simone Beaudelaire and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three historical romance novels by Simone Beaudelaire, Diana Rubino & Lorna Read, now available in one volume! Beautiful Rose: Jilted by his loved one, Spanish landowner Don Vidal Salazar feels he no longer has a reason to live. On the run from her past, Vidal’s secretary, Rosalind Carlisle, makes an offer he can’t refuse - a night of resplendent passion. Heart free and ready to try again at love, Vidal offers Rosalind her heart's desire. But can the couple find love in each other’s arms - or will fate tear them apart forever? Crowned By Love: England, 1471. Adopted as an infant, Denys Woodville lives with her mother, Elizabeth: now queen and married to Edward IV. Denys makes numerous attempts to uncover her true lineage, but her efforts come to an abrupt end. To her ultimate degradation, Queen Elizabeth marries her off to the ambitious Valentine Starbury. But as her feelings for Valentine bloom into love, she finally finds out who her family is... and the truth about her past. The Earl's Captive: September 1821. When Lucy's father announces that she must marry the ancient, grim-faced vicar, Lucy decides upon a desperate plan. She escapes across the moors, only to fall into the hands of notorious horse thieves and the cheating arms of their rough but charming leader. She is forced to take part in their crimes, but when she tries to deceive Philip, son of the Earl of Darwell, Lucy meets her match. Now, Lucy has to win back her freedom while losing her heart to handsome, aloof Philip... who doesn’t trust her an inch.

Download or read book Lovescape Crucified written by Soumyajit Samanta and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age written by Christina Simmons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. In the developing world, the economic, social, and legal foundations of traditional marriage are stronger but also weakening. Marriage changed because an industrial wage economy reduced familial patriarchal control of youth and women and spurred demands and possibilities for greater autonomy and choice in love. After the Second World War, when more married women pursued education and employment, and gays and lesbians gained visibility, feminism and gay liberation also challenged patriarchal and restrictive gender roles and helped to reshape marriage. In 1920 most people married for life; in the twenty-first century fewer marry, and serial monogamy prevails. Marriage is more diverse and flexible in form but also more fragile and optional than it once was. Over the century control of courtship shifted from parents to youth, and friends, as opposed to kin, became more important in sustaining marriages. Dual-wage-earner families replaced the male breadwinner. Social and political liberalism assailed conservative laws and religious regimes, expanding access to divorce and birth control. Although norms of masculinity and femininity retain huge power in most cultures, visions of more egalitarian and romantic love as the basis of marriage have gained traction-made appealing by the global spread of capitalist social relations and also broadcast by culture industries in the developed world. The legalization of same-sex marriage-in over twenty-five nations by 2020-epitomizes a century of change toward a less gender-defined ideal that includes a continued desire for social recognition and permanence. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

Download or read book Living Wisely and Well in the Evening of Life written by Duncan S. Ferguson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Wisely and Well in the Evening of Life addresses the increasing difficulty of those in our culture who are “in the evening of life,” who must manage a rapidly changing society and a new world being born almost daily. There are several dimensions of life which have become especially difficult for those in this position, including loneliness, the sense of being set aside in a changing culture, the cost of medical care, the deep conflicts in our political life, and the increasing sense of not being able to cope. Deep universal values, articulated by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Corinthian church, must be claimed and internalized. Paul artfully guides those from this church in a complex setting by suggesting a “more excellent way” in which to live with complexity and challenge. Then and now, we need to cultivate a thoughtful and credible faith in our mature years; second, we must sustain the well-founded hope, rooted in our faith in a loving God, especially necessary in the evening of life. In keeping with the teaching of Jesus, we should make unconditional love the central value in life. It is possible to flourish in the evening of life undergirded by faith, hope, and love.

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Download or read book Lovescaping written by Irene Greaves and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no greater need in the world at this present moment than the need for love. Where and how do we learn to love? Lovescaping introduces a way of life based on practicing love in action through the intentional and purposeful engagement of its fifteen pillars. Love is what binds our humanity together, and if we take it upon ourselves to truly practice love in action every day of our lives, we will rescue our humanity and change the world. Read on, future fellow Lovescaper, to learn how we can build the humanity of tomorrow through the practice of love in action!