Download or read book Opaciphobia and Other Inner Reflections written by Paul Giangrasso and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opaciphobia and Other Inner Reflections is a collection of inner experiences decades in the making. Inspired by events from the authors childhood, opaciphobia is a word that attempts to capture an inner state of fear: a fear of the unclear. It began with a semi-opaque window next to the front door of the home of the author's grandparents in Westchester, New York. It evolved into a personal, multifaceted vantage point that longs for resolution in the divine.
Download or read book Opaciphobia and Other Inner Reflections written by Dr. Paul Giangrasso and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opaciphobia and Other Inner Reflections is a collection of inner experiences decades in the making. Inspired by events from the authors childhood, opaciphobia is a word that attempts to capture an inner state of fear: a fear of the unclear. It began with a distorted window by the front door of the author's childhood home. It evolved into a personal, multifaceted vantage point that longs for resolution in the divine.
Download or read book 2 Awakening The Mystery of You and I written by Viktor Paul and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will the United States Government, private sector, and religious organizations use resources to protect, educate, heal, reconnect, and empower children?
Download or read book Crypto Judaism written by Ron Duncan Hart and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For many in the United States, Crypto-Judaism has been shrouded in memory and for others it has become an imagined land that might have been, often with little information about the actual history and heritage of the group. Today, in the American southwest and in parts of Latin America there is a movement to reclaim Jewish identity, and people are describing the memories of Jewish identity with the family and the remnants of Jewish practice. That has sparked interest in learning more about Sepharad, the Spain of the Jews, and the diaspora of Spanish Jews and their cousins, the Crypto-Jews. Myths have grown around the concept of Sepharad sometimes obscuring the realities of what it was. There was a "golden age" for Jews in Spain during the early Muslim period, but as the reconquest heated up and Christian rule replaced that of Muslims, the Jewish experience turned dark until the light of the Jews was put out in Spain. In my experience in New Mexico, I have found that local oral traditions about Jewish family identity or reclaimed Jewish identity can be rich, but in some cases not coinciding with historical information. So, there can be multiple tracks of inherited or imagined information in addition to historical documentation. The belief about the association between Judaism and Spain that is expressed among some is that anyone of Spanish descent must have sangre Judia "Jewish blood". That contradicts what we know of the demographics of Spain, which suggest that at the time of the Expulsion, Jews were a minuscule part of the population, probably close to two percent. Crypto-Judaism is an attempt to draw a historical baseline of established information of what we know about those times and the Crypto-Jewish experience"--
Download or read book Cracked Surface written by John-Michael Lander and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Tension written by John-Michael Lander and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2016, David agrees to Dr. Warner’s unethical form of therapy consisting of delving into the past and artist dates. Reflecting on the year he turned sixteen, David discovers he had the God-given talent, determination, and a once-in-a-life time opportunity. Several things stood between him and a gold medal at the 1979 World Games Diving Championships, in Tønsberg, Norway: his age, inexperience, family’s secrets, and finances. The springboard finals find David
Download or read book Juggling Identities written by Seth D. Kunin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest. Critiquing scholars who challenge the cultural authenticity of these individuals, Seth D. Kunin builds a solid link between the crypto-Jews of New Mexico and their Spanish ancestors who secretly maintained their Jewish identity after converting to Catholicism, offering the strongest evidence yet of their ethnic and religious origins. Kunin adopts a unique approach to the lives of modern crypto-Jews, concentrating primarily on their understanding of Jewish tradition and the meaning they ascribe to ritual. He illuminates the complexity of this community, in which individuals and groups perform the same practice in diverse ways. Kunin supplements his ethnographic research with broader theories concerning the nature of identity and memory, which is especially applicable to crypto-Jews, whose culture resides mainly in memory. Kunin's work has wider implications, not only for other forms of crypto-Judaism (such as that found in the former Soviet Union) but also for the study of Judaism's fluid nature, which helps adherents adapt to new circumstances and knowledge. Kunin draws fascinating comparisons between the intricate ancestry of crypto-Jews and those of other ethnic communities living in the United States.
Download or read book Creating Conversos written by Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government positions. Rather than acting as alienated and marginalized subjects, the conversos were able to craft new identities and strategies not just for survival but for prospering in the most adverse circumstances. Martínez-Dávila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case study of the Carvajal–Santa María clan from its beginnings in late fourteenth-century Castile. By tracing the family ties and intermarriages of the Jewish rabbinic ha-Levi lineage of Burgos, Spain (which became the converso Santa María clan) with the Old Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Martínez-Dávila demonstrates the family's changing identity, and how the monolithic notions of ethnic and religious disposition were broken down by the group and negotiated anew as they transformed themselves from marginal into mainstream characters at the center of the economies of power in the world they inhabited. They succeeded in rising to the pinnacles of power within the church hierarchy in Spain, even to the point of contesting the succession to the papacy and overseeing the Inquisitorial investigation and execution of extended family members, including Luis de Carvajal "The Younger" and most of his immediate family during the 1590s in Mexico City. Martinez-Dávila offers a rich panorama of the many forces that shaped the emergence of modern Spain, including tax policies, rivalries among the nobility, and ecclesiastical politics. The extensive genealogical research enriches the historical reconstruction, filling in gaps and illuminating contradictions in standard contemporary narratives. His text is strengthened by many family trees that assist the reader as the threads of political and social relationships are carefully disentangled.
Download or read book Sephardic Jews written by Ron Duncan Hart and published by Gaon Books. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sephardic Jews are the Jews who lived in Spain historically and later in the Spanish Diaspora following the Expulsion of 1492. This covers the rich cultural history of Jews in Spain, the religious and cultural life, the communities that developed in the Diaspora from the Ottoman Empire to Morocco and the Americas. Attention is given to the Jews who converted to Christianity and lived as crypto-Jews"--
Download or read book The Third Commandment and the Return of the Anusim written by Stephen Leon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Stephen Leon has written his theological memoir about experiences with Anusim families from the Southwest of the U.S., Mexico and beyond. Since the 1980's he has been a major figure in the Borderlands region of the Rio Grande, recognizing the B'nei Anusim and their return to Judaism.
Download or read book Jews and the Arab World written by Ron Duncan Hart and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For 1,400 years Jews and Arabs have lived side by side and mostly with mutual respect. The oldest center of Jewish life outside of Israel was Baghdad. The greatest Jewish scholars lived there and prepared the "Babylonian" Talmud. In Western Europe, a major center of Jewish life was the 800 years under Muslim rule in Spain. When the Muslims were driven out of Spain in 1492, Jews were expelled from that country three months later, mostly joining the Muslim retreat into North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. The Jewish/Arab conflict that started in the twentieth century is an anomaly, and this book analyzes the issues that transformed that long history of co-existence into the conflict of today, including the four stages of the current conflict and the new developments that have occurred in recent years"--
