Download or read book New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality written by Philip Sheldrake and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary attempts to give direct access to the development of Christian Spirituality. It is a series of pieces written by experts to provide instant, accurate and thought-provoking information of high scholarship.

Download or read book The Shadow of Death written by Jane Willan and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of G. M. Malliet and M. C. Beaton, The Shadow of Death is divine entertainment from a talented debut writer. A charming and clever traditional mystery debut set at a bucolic Welsh convent, The Shadow of Death introduces Sister Agatha, a mystery-loving nun who finds herself in the midst of a real-life murder case. The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life—days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent’s vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey’s sexton is found dead under an avalanche of gouda. Despite the reservations of the local constable, Sister Agatha is convinced it’s murder and the game is afoot. Armed only with the notes she’s scribbled during her favorite podcast, How to Write a Mystery Novel, as well as a lessons learned from crime heroes ranging from Hercule Poirot to Stephanie Plum, Sister Agatha leads the nuns of Gwenafwy Abbey (and her unwitting sidekick, Father Selwyn) as they begin a race against time to resolve the death of Jacob, save the Abbey, exonerate a beloved postulant, and restore the good name of their cheese.

Download or read book Performing Wales written by Lisa Lewis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas – the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre – concentrating on how they contribute to a shared sense of identity among participants. Through specific examples, the author traces the way cultural performance in Wales both creates and sustains specific relationships between people, memory and place, revealing reflections of ourselves and constituting our remembrances of others and of history. The discussion emphasizes the significance of performance in voicing issues of identity within a peripheral context – a position informed by the author’s own perspective as a bilingual Welsh and English speaker.

Download or read book The Celts 2 volumes written by John T. Koch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct, accessible two-volume set covers all aspects of Celtic historical life, from prehistory to the present day. The study of Celtic history has a wide international appeal, but unfortunately many of the available books on the subject are out-of-date, narrowly specialized, or contain incorrect information. Online information on the Celts is similarly unreliable. This two-volume set provides a well-written, up-to-date, and densely informative reference on Celtic history that is ideal for high school or college-aged students as well as general readers. The Celts: History, Life, and Culture uses a cross-disciplinary approach to explore all facets of this ancient society. The book introduces the archaeology, art history, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, music, and mythology of the Celts and examines the global influence of their legacy. Written entirely by acknowledged experts, the content is accessible without being simplistic. Unlike other texts in the field, The Celts: History, Life, and Culture celebrates all of the cultures associated with Celtic languages at all periods, providing for a richer and more comprehensive examination of the topic.

Download or read book Caneuon Ffydd written by Pwyllgor Y Llyfr Emynau Cydenwadol and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Pulpit written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture of Wales: the culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In the introduction, the author reflects on why no sustained attempt has hitherto been made to investigate one of the formative cultural influences on modern 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, the Nonconformist inheritance. The importance of addressing this strange and significant cultural deficit is then explained, and a preliminary attempt made to capture something of the spirit of Welsh Nonconformity. The succeeding chapters address and seek to answer such questions as: What exactly did the Welsh chapels believe and do? Why have the English-language writers of Wales, from Caradoc Evans and Dylan Thomas to R.S. Thomas and the authors of today, been so fascinated by them? How accurate are the impressions we've been given of chapel life and chapel people in the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales? The answers offered may alter our views both of the Welsh Nonconformist past and of Welsh writing in English. One of the ideas advanced is that many of Wales' most important writers went to war with the preachers in their texts, and that their work is therefore the site of cultural struggle. Theirs was a war in words waged to determine who would have the last word on modern Welsh experience.

Download or read book Interfaces Baptists and Others written by David Bebbington and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing how Baptists throughout the world have related to other Christians and to other institutions and movements over the centuries. The theme of this collection of twenty-one essays, 'Baptists and Others', includes relations with other Christians and with other institutions and movements. What, the authors ask, has been the Baptist experience of engaging with different groups and developments? The theme has been explored by means of case studies, some of which are very specific in time and place while others cover long periods and more than one country. In the first half the contents are arranged by period. The first section examines early Baptists, the second nineteenth-century Baptists in Britain and America and the third Baptists in the twentieth century. The second half turns to various parts of the world. There is a section on Australia, another on New Zealand and a third on Asia and Africa. The overall picture is one of a complicated series of relationships as Baptists defined themselves as different from other bodies and yet, especially in the twentieth century, tried to co-operate in mission and ecumenical endeavour. 'Baptists are often regarded as enthusiastic separatists and unenthusiastic ecumenists. These essays, based on hard evidence rather than passing impressions, are a necessary correction to superficial prejudices and show the reality to be much more complex and nuanced, as well as varied over time and place. The book is a smorgasbord of delights. Yet, readers should avoid the temptation to pick and choose from the menu, ensuring rather that each offering is digested so they enjoy a balance and nutritious meal.' Derek Tidball

Download or read book Y Gymraes o Ganaan written by Eirian Jones and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanes rhyfeddol Margaret Jones, merch o Rosllannerchrugog a ddaeth yn enwog yng Nghymru'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg fel 'y Gymraes o Ganaan' yn sgil y ffaith iddi deithio i bedwar ban byd a threulio cyfnodau hir yn byw dramor. Cyhoeddodd ddwy gyfrol o'i hatgofion, Llythyrau Cymraes o Wlad Canaan (1869) a Moroco, a'r hyn a welais yno (1883).

Download or read book The Bible in Church Academy and Culture written by Alan P.F. Sell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays celebrates the contribution of John Tudno Williams to the church, to biblical scholarship and teaching, and to the culture of Wales. Written by biblical scholars, historians, theologians, and authorities on Welsh culture, the papers gather around the central theme of the Bible: its interpretation and exegesis and its place in hymns as well as in the visual culture of Welsh Presbyterianism, in theological colleges, and in theological reflection and construction.

Download or read book Cydymaith Caneuon Ffydd written by Delyth G. Morgans and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cydymaith i'r llyfr emynau cydenwadol Caneuon Ffydd, yn cynnwys 750 tudalen o wybodaeth am holl emynau, tonau, emynwyr, cyfieithwyr a chyfansoddwyr Caneuon Ffydd. Ceir trafodaeth gynhwysfawr ar hanes emynyddiaeth yng Nghymru, ynghyd ag arweiniad diogel i holl amrywiaeth cynnwys Caneuon Ffydd. Argraffiad newydd o lyfr a gyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn Nhachwedd 2006.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature written by Geraint Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

Download or read book A History of Welsh Music written by Trevor Herbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.

Download or read book Black Skin Blue Books written by Daniel G. Williams and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.

Download or read book Dictionary of Labour Biography written by Keith Gildart and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history. Volume XV maintains this standard of original and thorough scholarship. Each entry is written by a specialist drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources. The biographical essays engage with recent historiographical developments in the field of labour history. The scope of the volume emphasises the ethnic and national diversity of the British labour movement and neglected political traditions.

Download or read book Ffydd Gobaith Cariad written by Llwyd Owen and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nofel rymus, ddirfawr sy'n llawn datblygiadau annisgwyl. Mae'r stori yn troi o gwmpas Alun Brady, dyn sydd wedi byw bywyd tawel a chysgodol yng nghartref crand ei rieni yng Nghaerdydd. Ond pan ddaw ei dad-cu drygionus i fyw ac i farw gyda'r teulu, dyma ddechrau ar newidiadau enfawr a dyfodiad cymeriadau lliwgar i fywyd Alun. Nofel am yr hyn sy'n tarfu ar dawelwch undonog bywyd.

Download or read book Women Identity and Religion in Wales written by Manon Ceridwen James and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a study of the relationship between identity and religion in women’s lives in Wales today. It will help the reader have a better and more comprehensive understanding of the religious context in Wales to the present day. It will introduce the reader to theological and religious themes as well as reflections on identity in the work of several key female Welsh writers – Menna Elfyn, Jasmine Donahaye, Jam Morris, Charlotte Williams and Mererid Hopwood. It will help the reader to engage with issues of Welsh identity and religion and gain insight into challenges facing the churches today and engage with the lived experience of women in Wales.

Download or read book Caneuon Cenedlaethol Cymru written by Evan Thomas Davies and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: