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Book Art  Creativity  and the Sacred

Download or read book Art Creativity and the Sacred written by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays concerning religion and art, including contributions by Barbara Novak, Leo Steinberg, Paul Tillich, Wassily Kandinsky, John Dixon Jr., David Tracy, Joshua Taylor, and Langdon B. Gilkey.

Book Technicians of the Sacred

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  • Author : Jerome Rothenberg
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1985-05-08
  • ISBN : 0520049128
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Technicians of the Sacred written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-05-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Technicians of the Sacred presents 'primitive' and ancient poetries as the incantations they are, loaded with power and very full of the magic that invests all good poetry. The treatment is fascinating...the commentaries are a gold mine of responses to the material by a strong poet (the editor), and his selection of analogous writings from a broad range of contemporary poets."—David P. McAllester

Book The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Download or read book The Sacred Book of the Werewolf written by Viktor Pelevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces men with her tail and drains them of their sexual power. She falls in love with a KGB officer who is actually a werewolf.

Book The Sacred Anthology

Download or read book The Sacred Anthology written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sacred Anthology  A Book of Ethnical Scriptures

Download or read book The Sacred Anthology A Book of Ethnical Scriptures written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Book An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women

Download or read book An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women written by Serinity Young and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her "Revising Committee" produced The Woman's Bible, a commentary on passages in the Bible that "do not exalt or dignify women" and "those also in which women are prominent by exclusion." The women's movement has come a long way in the last hundred years, but so too have our knowledge and appreciation of religions other than Judaism and Christianity." "Serinity Young's Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women is the first comprehensive comparative sourcebook on women and religion. It makes available readings by and about women from the primary texts of the world's religions. The religions treated include not only the "big seven," Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, but the religions of northern Europe, the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, shamanism and tribal religions, as well as more recent alternative religious movements. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the religion in question, providing a historical overview with particular regard to women. Then follow representative texts about women (each with its own introduction) from works that are central to their respective traditions. These texts include creation stories, biographies of founders (in which women often play a prominent role), law codes, folklore and fairy tales, the "texts" of tribal peoples, and works explicitly by women. Folklore and fairy tales have particular importance in this book because they generally reveal the beliefs of the "little tradition," which are often in the hands of women, while the "great tradition" is represented by the male-dominated forms of orthodoxy. The works by women here take many forms from theological treatises to mystical poems to poems mourning the loss of a child or husband to the matter-of-fact statements by tribal women, such as Nisa, expressing the uncertainties of any religious knowing." "Many of the texts included in this anthology are not only "representative texts about women" but formative texts of the various traditions, texts that have seeped into the language and consciousness of their culture and shaped its view of women. In her introduction the author sketches certain themes that are of central importance for the cross-cultural or comparative study of women in world religion: representations of women as evil, women as role models, wisdom as feminine, women religiosi, dualities, goddesses, sex changes and sex disguises, myths and stories of gender conflict. These themes can help guide the reader as she makes her way through virtual libraries of the world's sacred texts. Reading sacred texts in this way, from the perspective of women, can be a radical activity, an activity that, at its best, subverts male dominance of the text."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Wedding Collection

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  • Author : Richard Walters
  • Publisher : Vocal Library
  • Release : 2007-07
  • ISBN : 9781423412649
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Wedding Collection written by Richard Walters and published by Vocal Library. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Collection). This indispensable volume is a great resource full of vast variety, useful for any singer trying to please any bride or groom. The selections are in five musical styles: classical/traditional, Broadway, standards in custom arrangements, pop/rock classics in custom arrangements, and contemporary Christian. CLASSICAL TRADITIONAL: Alleluja (Mozart) (high voice only) * Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) * Ave Maria (Schubert) * Bist du bei mir (Stozel) * Dank sei Dir, Herr (Ochs) * Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee (Gounod) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) * Let the bright Seraphim (Handel, with trumpet part) (high voice only) * The Lord's Prayer (Malotte) * Mein glaubiges Herz (My Heart Ever Faithful) (Bach) * Now Thank We All Our God (arr. Walters) * Panis Angelicus (Franck) * Pur ti miro, pur ti godo (Monteverdi, duet from L'incoronazione di Poppea). BROADWAY: All Good Gifts (Godspell) * All I Ask of You (duet, The Phantom of the Opera) * And This Is My Beloved (Kismet) * The Greatest of These (Philemon) * More I Cannot Wish You (Guys and Dolls) * Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) * Someone like You (Jekyll & Hyde) * Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof) * Till There Was You (The Music Man) * Unexpected Song (Song & Dance). STANDARDS: All the Way * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * I Could Write a Book * Let It Be Me (Je T'appartiens) * The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) * Starting Here, Starting Now * Time After Time * Walk Hand in Hand * The Way You Look Tonight * With a Song in My Heart. POP/ROCK CLASSICS: Annie's Song * Endless Love * Grow Old with Me * Here, There and Everywhere * I Will * In My Life * We've Only Just Begun * You Are So Beautiful * You Raise Me Up. CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN: How Beautiful * I Will Be Here * If You Could See What I See * Love of My Life * My Place Is with You * Parent's Prayer (Let Go of Two) * This Day * This Is the Day (A Wedding Song).

Book Preaching with Sacred Fire  An Anthology of African American Sermons  1750 to the Present

Download or read book Preaching with Sacred Fire An Anthology of African American Sermons 1750 to the Present written by Martha Simmons and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America. A groundbreaking anthology, Preaching with Sacred Fire is a unique and powerful work. It captures the stunning diversity of the cultural and historical legacy of African American preaching more than three hundred years in the making. Each sermon, as editors Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas reveal, is a work of art and a lesson in unmatched rhetoric. The journey through this anthology—which includes selections from Jarena Lee, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Gardner C. Taylor, Vashti McKenzie, and many others—offers a rare view of the unheralded role of the African American preacher in American history. The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods. The preachers of these sermons are men and women from a range of faiths, ancestries, and educational backgrounds. They draw on a vast and luminous landscape of poetic language, using metaphor, rhythm, and imagery to communicate with their congregations. What they all have in common is hope, resilience, and sacred fire. “Even during the most difficult and oppressive times,” Simmons and Thomas write in the preface, “the delivery, creativity, charisma, expressivity, fervor, forcefulness, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, and vision of black preaching gave and gives hope to a community under siege.” This magnificent work beautifully renders the complexity, spiritual richness, and strength of African American life.

Book Anthology of Sacred Song   Volume 2

Download or read book Anthology of Sacred Song Volume 2 written by Hal Leonard Corp and published by G Schirmer, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Collection). Contents: Bach: Prepare thyself, Zion * Slumber, beloved, and take thy repose Benedict: Father, whose blessing we entreat * O Thou afflicted Bennett: O Lord, Thou hast searched me out Blumner: My warning heed..Thine, O Saviour, is love unending Costa: Lord, from my bed again I rise * It is a good thing to give thanks..This night I lift my heart to Thee Cowen: Like as a father pitieth his children Dvorak: Within what gloomy depths forest..Thy leading would had not followed Gade: O, with pure devotion * When onward I am gazing Gaul: Eye hath not seen * Now go your ways, my daughters well- beloved..O gracious Lord, cast down Thine eyes * Thou art the guide of our youth Handel: O Judah, Judah! chosen seed!..O Lord, whom we adore * Great Prophetess! my soul's on fire..In the battle, fame pursuing * The smiling hours, a joyful train * Thou shalt bring them in * But who is this? tremendous to behold..Awful, pleasing being, say * Now give the army breath..Heroes, when with glory burning * Father of heav'n! From Thy eternal throne * Behold a virgin shall conceive..O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion * He was despised and rejected * Return, O God of Hosts * O Lord, whose mercies numberless * What tho' I trace each herb and flower * A love like mine, so faithful..When first I saw my lovely maid * Lord, to Thee, each night and day Kiel: He was oppress'd and afflicted sore * For my soul is athirst for God * Turn again to thy rest Mackenzie: Gladness is taken away Marechal: He is dead the child I cherish!..One would say, he reposes Mendelssohn: O rest in the Lord * And he journeyed with companions..But the Lord is mindful of His own Parry: The Lord is long-suffering and merciful Raff: Thrust in Thy sickle, and reap..Great and wonderful are all Thy works * Behold, the House of God is with men Reinthaler: The Lord will not be ever wroth Saint-Saens: Patiently have I waited for the Lord * Thou, O Lord, art my protector Sullivan: The Lord is risen * Love is not the world Vierling: From swarming Highways I now have escaped..Lord, for whom my soul is burning Williams: As Thou wilt, Father.

Book Sacred Texts of the World

Download or read book Sacred Texts of the World written by Ninian Smart and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a contemporary world in which religious belief exercises a more potent - some might say more dangerous - influence on global events than many would have thought possible a generation ago, the nature and interpretation of the core tenets of religious faith has become a matter of compelling and widespread interest, both within and outside practising religious communities.Each of the 14 chapters of Sacred Texts is devoted to one of the principal religious and other belief systems of humanity, both defunct and extant. The chapters follow a consistent pattern: a short and accessible introduction to the faith in question, followed by extracts that clearly illustrate its mythic narratives, its spiritual and theological doctrines, its central moral teachings, its rituals and modes of worship, and its mystical traditions. Accompanying notes make clear the meanings of all the quoted passages. Taken together, the extracts provide a rounded and coherent picture of each religious tradition.Sacred Texts covers not only Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism and Sikhism, but also small-scale traditional religions, new religions, and secular worldviews such as humanism. It is an essential reference for those who wish to understand the nature - and continuing appeal - of religious belief in a globalised, multi-faith world.

Book World Scripture

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  • Author : Andrew Wilson
  • Publisher : Paragon House
  • Release : 1998-09-22
  • ISBN : 9781557787231
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book World Scripture written by Andrew Wilson and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating the commonality of the world's religions and our common humanity, this rich and varied anthology of scripture offers a highly useful collection of religious quotations, passages, and excerpts from the holy texts, representing a new, holistic approach to the world's religions.

Book The Sacred Table

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary L. Zamore
  • Publisher : CCAR Press
  • Release : 2011-02-28
  • ISBN : 088123186X
  • Pages : 701 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Table written by Mary L. Zamore and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic is an anthology of diverse essays on Jewish dietary practices. This volume presents the challenge of navigating through choices about eating, while seeking to create a rich dialogue about the intersection of Judaism and food. The definition of Kashrut, the historic Jewish approach to eating, is explored, broadened and in some cases, argued with, in these essays. Kashrut is viewed not only as a ritual practice, but also as a multifaceted Jewish relationship with food and its production, integrating values such as ethics, community, and spirituality into our dietary practice. The questions considered in The Sacred Table are broad reaching. Does Kashrut represent a facade of religiosity, hiding immorality and abuse, or is it, in its purest form, a summons to raise the ethical standards of food production? How does Kashrut enrich spiritual practice by teaching intentionality and gratitude? Can paying attention to our own eating practices raise our awareness of the hungry? Can Kashrut inspire us to eat healthfully? Can these laws draw us around the same table, thus creating community? In exploring the complexities of these questions, this book includes topics such as agricultural workers' rights, animal rights, food production, the environment, personal health, the spirituality of eating and fasting, and the challenges of eating together. The Sacred Table celebrates the ideology of educated choice. The essays present a diverse range of voices, opinions, and options, highlighting the Jewish values that shape our food ethics. Whether for the individual, family, or community, this book supplies the basic how-tos of creating a meaningful Jewish food ethic and incorporating these choices into our personal and communal religious practices. These resources will be helpful if we are new to these ideas or if we are teaching or counseling others. Picture a beautiful buffet of choices from which you can shape your personal Kashrut. Read, educate yourself, build on those practices that you already follow, and eat well. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Book Sacred Places Around the World

Download or read book Sacred Places Around the World written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Important archaeological, historical, and geological destinations worldwide are profiled, from the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Forbidden City in China to the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and Mount Shasta in California. Sites are described in historical and cultural context, and practical contemporary travel information is provided, including detailed maps, drawings, photographs, and travel directions.

Book The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Download or read book The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays written by T. S. Eliot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of poetry's great voices reviews the creations of his literary forebears with essays on the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Blake, the Metaphysical Poets, and other authors. Plus 4 essays from The Times Literary Supplement.

Book The Sacred Anthology

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  • Author : Moncure Daniel Conway
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Sacred Anthology written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sacred Shift

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  • Author : Hunt Henion
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780982205471
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Shift written by Hunt Henion and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revelation of unity and a renaissance of caring and sharing is quietly transforming our world! The first two sections of the book put this sacred shift in perspective. Section three shares secrets about protecting the potential of our children and posterity. Section four reveals simple, economic ways to bring prosperity and peace down to Earth. Contributors to this anthology include Barbara Marx Hubbard, Steve Bhaerman, AKA Swami Beyondanada, Diana Cooper, Patricia Cota-Robles, and assorted experts in various fields. This book was compiled for anyone who ever wondered how God could possible turn what we have today into the prophesied Golden Age. It reveals exactly how we're going to get from here to there -- co-creating our future with family, community, and God!

Book The Sacred Anthology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Moncure Conway
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-12-31
  • ISBN : 3368846213
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Anthology written by Moncure Conway and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.