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Book The Prisoner s Companion  Containing Religious and Moral Advice  Adapted to Persons in Solitary Confinement

Download or read book The Prisoner s Companion Containing Religious and Moral Advice Adapted to Persons in Solitary Confinement written by Multiple Contributors and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T196093 London: 1785. Sold by Dodsley, and Sewell, [1785]. xv, [1],24p.; 8°

Book Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Download or read book Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon deeply reflects on language acquisition, language use, and sociolinguistic conditions in many different circumstances all over the world. Multilingualism was, however, certainly rather common already, if not especially, in the premodern world. For some time now, research has started to explore this issue through a number of specialized studies. The present volume continues with the investigation of multilingualism through a collection of case studies focusing on important examples in medieval and early modern societies, that is, in linguistic and cultural contact zones, such as England, Spain, the Holy Land, but also the New World. As all contributors confirm, the numerous cases of multilingualism discussed here indicate strongly that the premodern period knew considerably less barriers between people of different social classes, cultural background, and religious orientation. But we also have to acknowledge that already then human communication could fail because of linguistic hurdles which prevented mutual understanding in religious and cultural terms.

Book Spirituality in Dark Places

Download or read book Spirituality in Dark Places written by D. Jeffreys and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffreys explores the spiritual consequences and ethics of modern solitary confinement and emphasizes how solitary confinement damages our spiritual lives. He focuses particularly on how it destroys one's relationship to time and undermines our creativity, and proposes institutional changes in order to mitigate profound damage to prisoners.

Book The Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1841
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book America written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hell Is a Very Small Place

Download or read book Hell Is a Very Small Place written by Jean Casella and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement

Download or read book A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement written by Sharon Shalev and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Probation

Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New World

Download or read book The New World written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Youth s Companion

Download or read book Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The lecture on heads  With additions  Cooke s ed

Download or read book The lecture on heads With additions Cooke s ed written by George Alexander Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Opinion

Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advocate of Moral Reform

Download or read book Advocate of Moral Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Down in the Chapel

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  • Author : Joshua Dubler
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2013-08-13
  • ISBN : 146683711X
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Down in the Chapel written by Joshua Dubler and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and provocative interpretation of one of the most religiously vibrant places in America—a state penitentiary Baraka, Al, Teddy, and Sayyid—four black men from South Philadelphia, two Christian and two Muslim—are serving life sentences at Pennsylvania's maximum-security Graterford Prison. All of them work in Graterford's chapel, a place that is at once a sanctuary for religious contemplation and an arena for disputing the workings of God and man. Day in, day out, everything is, in its twisted way, rather ordinary. And then one of them disappears. Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. We learn how the men at Graterford pass their time, care for themselves, and commune with their makers. We observe a variety of Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, and others, at prayer and in study and song. And we listen in as an interloping scholar of religion tries to make sense of it all. When prisoners turn to God, they are often scorned as con artists who fake their piety, or pitied as wretches who cling to faith because faith is all they have left. Joshua Dubler goes beyond these stereotypes to show the religious life of a prison in all its complexity. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.

Book The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics written by D. Stephen Long and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics brings together two different but related disciplines; the first is contemplative or theoretical, asking what are the beliefs or doctrines that characterize Christianity, whilst the second is practical, asking what are the ethical practices that attend its teachings. The movement between the theoretical and practical aspects is not, however, one way, as doctrine and life are mutually informing. In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars address key topics, problems and debates in this hotly debated topic within a truly global context. Comprising over 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into three parts based on the three persons of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Within these sections, cutting-edge issues are examined, including: God and genetics War, peace, and violence White supremacy Creation and sexuality Digital ethics Transgender studies Climate change Immigration and refugees Adopting a practical approach that must consider new concerns that have arisen with recent social, political, and cultural shifts, The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in Christian ethics, religious ethics and Christianity studies. The handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as ethics and philosophy.

Book American Masonic Register and Literary Companion

Download or read book American Masonic Register and Literary Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: