Download or read book Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels, examining the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables. The work dispels the obscurity of Western interpretations with a stark vision of Jesus in his original context.

Download or read book Where Are You From written by Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book looks at issues of immigration, postmodern identity and difference through the lives of South Asians in Britain.

Download or read book India Abroad written by Sandhya Shukla and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India Abroad analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian independence, to the present. Across different spheres of culture--festivals, entrepreneurial enclaves, fiction, autobiography, newspapers, music, and film--migrants have created India as a way to negotiate life in the multicultural United States and Britain. Sandhya Shukla considers how Indian diaspora has become a contact zone for various formations of identity and discourses of nation. She suggests that carefully reading the production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one another. Both the connections and disconnections among peoples who see themselves as in some way Indian are brought into sharp focus by this comparativist approach. This book provides a unique combination of rich ethnographic work and textual readings to illuminate the theoretical concerns central to the growing fields of diaspora studies and transnational cultural studies. Shukla argues that the multi-sitedness of diaspora compels a rethinking of time and space in anthropology, as well as in other disciplines. Necessarily, the standpoint of global belonging and citizenship makes the boundaries of the "America" in American studies a good deal more porous. And in dialogue with South Asian studies and Asian American studies, this book situates postcolonial Indian subjectivity within migrants' transnational recastings of the meanings of race and ethnicity. Interweaving conceptual and material understandings of diaspora, India Abroad finds that in constructed Indias, we can see the contradictions of identity and nation that are central to the globalized condition in which all peoples, displaced and otherwise, live.

Download or read book Sex and More Sex written by Christopher Cherry and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly about erotic, sexual gratification, the theme of this sex book concerns a stormy four year sexual relationship with someone called Nice. Avery beautiful person, Nice is quite incapable of returning love, or any kind of real concern for anybody.Most people with normal responses would be sickened by this story, in fact, it would crush most people.Through the tears, the regrets, the moods, and all the promises, Nice finally hits the drug scene, and learns how to rob and steal from tourists, eventually landing up in jail.Impossible to help Nice, who finally reveals that he has a hatred for all foreigners, period. This sex book gives a great many original insights into both the psychology and the average daily life of sex operatives, and it shows just how much Nice has been damaged by it all. Read ‘Sex and More Sex’ a sexually horrible story.

Download or read book One Who Loves Knowledge written by Betsy Bryan and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends, and family in honor of Richard Jasnow, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Despite his claiming to be just a demoticist, Richard Jasnow's research interests and specialties are broad, spanning religious and historical topics, along with new editions of demotic texts, including most particularly the Book of Thoth. A number of the authors demonstrate their appreciation for Jasnow's contributions to the understanding of this difficult text. The volume also includes other studies on literature, Ptolemaic history, and even the god Thoth himself, and features detailed images and abundant hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Coptic, and Greek texts.

Download or read book Bhangra and Asian Underground written by Falu Bakrania and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Underground music—a fusion of South Asian genres with western breakbeats created for the dance club scene by DJs and musicians of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent—went mainstream in the U.K. in the late 1990s. Its success was unprecedented: British bhangra, a blend of Punjabi folk music with hip-hop musical elements, was enormously popular among South Asian communities but had yet to become mainstream. For many, the widespread attention to Asian Underground music signaled the emergence of a supposedly new, tolerant, and multicultural Britain that could finally accept South Asians. Interweaving ethnography and theory, Falu Bakrania examines the social life of British Asian musical culture to reveal a more complex and contradictory story of South Asian belonging in Britain. Analyzing the production of bhangra and Asian Underground music by male artists and its consumption by female club-goers, Bakrania shows that gender, sexuality, and class intersected in ways that profoundly shaped how young people interpreted “British” and “Asian” identity and negotiated, sometimes violently, contests about ethnic authenticity, sexual morality, individual expression, and political empowerment.

Download or read book Populism the Pandemic and the Media written by John Mair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populism is on the rise across the globe. Authoritarian populist leaders have taken over and solidified their control over many countries. Their power has been cemented during the global coronavirus pandemic, though perhaps the defeat of populist-in-chief Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election (despite his continuing protestations to the contrary) has seen the start of the waning of this phenomenon? In the UK Brexit is 'done'; Britain is firmly out of the EU; Covid is vaccinated against; and Boris Johnson has a huge parliamentary majority and, despite never-ending problems, of his own and others' making, his grip on power with a parliamentary majority of more than 80, still seems secure. Meanwhile culture wars continue to rage. How has media, worldwide, contributed, fulled or fought this populism. Cheerleaders? Critics? Supplicants? This book examines those questions in 360 degrees with a distinguished cast of authors from journalism and academia.

Download or read book The Martian Codex written by George J. Haas and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, The Cydonia Codex authors George J. Haas and William R. Saunders use archaeological research discoveries and photographs from NASA and other space programs to document the uncanny similarities between Martian and now-extinct Earth cultures. The Martian Codex begins with a review of the thirty-year history of documenting the famous “Face on Mars” landform from NASA’s first photographs in 1976 to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE shots in 2007. Detailed analysis shows it as a split-faced structure that precisely resembles a set of masks from a temple in Cerros, Mexico. Part two provides additional examples of two-faced and composite structures all over the red planet. Haas and Saunders explore a series of recurring motifs by providing side-by-side views of the Martian geoglyphs with their terrestrial pre-Columbian counterparts. The results substantiate a commonality between two worlds in that both depict specific gods and characters from the creation mythology of the Mayan people, as recorded in the sacred Popol Vuh. This fact-based book represents the most persuasive argument yet that extraterrestrials may indeed have appeared on Earth during an earlier era.

Download or read book The Naulahka a Story of East and West written by Rudyard Kipling and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew her calling was to move to India where she would dedicate herself to improving the condition of Indian women. In her ensuing struggle, Kipling presents east and west side by side and reveals the complex, often tangled nature of the two.

Download or read book Communities of Resistance written by A. Sivanandan and published by Verso. This book was released on 1990-12-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance. The left itself is under scrutiny here—from a black perspective. A series of powerful interventions covers many of the issues which have confronted radical politics in the 1980s: inner-city uprisings, the demand for black sections in the Labour Party, local government anti-racism, the move to a common European market. This collection included incisive critiques of contemporary Marxism (‘All that Melts into Air is Solid: The Hokum of “New Times” ’), of post-colonial development, and of the Eurocentric assessment of imperialism.

Download or read book Five Classics of Fengshui written by Michael Paton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Five Classics of Fengshui Michael Paton traces the theoretical development of this form of spiritual geography through full translations of major texts: the Burial Classic of Qing Wu, Book of Burial, Yellow Emperor’s Classic of House Siting, Twenty Four Difficult Problems, and Water Dragon Classic. This theoretical development is analysed through the lens of history, philosophy and sociology of science in an attempt to address Joseph Needham’s conundrum of the "great beauty of the siting" in traditional China being based of such a “grossly superstitious system” and to understand what part fengshui played in the environmental history of China.

Download or read book Goodness Not Grief written by Yanling Lin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the author''s background which provides insight into his training in medicine and his opinions on the concepts and training that are necessary to be a good doctor. The aims of this book are to first show how coronary angioplasty was pioneered in Australia, Singapore and China. Second, it is to illustrate the founding of a long-awaited medical school in Xiamen, China where the author''s ancestors originate. Third, it is to describe the reformation of healthcare, cardiology, medical research and Art academy in Singapore. Fourth, it is to demonstrate the vision and realization of the third Asia Pacific cardiovascular intervention block. Last but not least, this book describes the merging of East West culture, medicine, art and a personal Christian testimony. This book hopes to show that with hard work, determination and vision, any young man or woman should be able to write a similar life story of their own. It is particularly important for young doctors to learn how not to bring grief but goodness to their patients and relatives. This book also illustrates the history of the development of coronary intervention in China and the rise of the Asia Pacific region in this field. Finally, this book provides a unique, personal perspective in the convergence of Eastern and Western culture, medicine and art. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (241 KB). Chapter 1: Early Years (917 KB). Contents: Early Years; Vow to be a Doctor; A Good Doctor; Goodness not Grief; Xiamen University Medical College; Health Reform and Centres of Excellence; Asia Pacific OCo The Third Block; East and West, Science and God. Readership: Students, professional, and general public."

Download or read book Archaeology of Spiritualities written by Kathryn Rountree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono) theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past?. The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource to archaeologists, historians, religious scholars and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.

Download or read book Surveillance in Asian Cinema written by Karen Fang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and—more specifically—probes these films’ treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies made in post-social and anti-Communist societies such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and South Korea, the book picks up on the political and economic concerns implicitly underlying Sinophobic and anti-Communist Asian images in Hollywood films while also considering how these societies and states depict the issues of centralization, militarization and technological innovation so often figured as distinctive of the difference between eastern despotism and western liberalism.

Download or read book In the Dark Volume 2 written by Jin Shisi Chai and published by Peach Flower House LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance encounter separates Xie Lanshan from Shen Liufei. Though physically apart, a mysterious letter to the police department entangles them in the same case involving a years old murder and a current hostage situation. Seeking a way out of the dire situation, their hearts become inexplicably drawn toward each other. Meanwhile, Xie Lanshan’s former teammates arrive to investigate the sudden proliferation of drugs in the city. Although they used to fight alongside one another, not everyone is convinced of their unsung hero’s loyalty. Adding to the stakes is Song Qilian. Unable to let go of the man from her past, she conducts her own investigation into Xie Lanshan’s identity. Hidden memories grow ever clearer, and Xie Lanshan comes ever closer to answering his question, “Who am I?” Though, everyone else may already know the answer…

Download or read book RED INK Vol 1 Rites of Passage Rights of Womanhood written by Ace Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Asians and Football written by Daniel Burdsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A development of the discourse on ethnicity and sport, exploring the British Asian experience of playing football in terms of the demands of the game and the influences of contrasting yet co-existing cultures.