Download or read book Sacred Threads written by Katharine Massam and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sections explore the complex lives of ordinary people who continually made choices about the way they expressed their faith. Part one begins with a brief survey of the context of lay Catholics in Adelaide and Perth between 1922 and 1962, considering the place of Catholics in wider society and
Download or read book Sacred Threads written by A. R. Diaz and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of sixteenth-century Aztec civilization, Eztli, a defiant young woman, harbors deep resentment towards the Spanish conquerors who have changed her world forever. Tasked with spying on Juan Diego, who claims to have seen the Virgin Mary, Eztli’s life takes an unexpected turn. Witnessing the miraculous apparitions at Tepeyac Hill, she is drawn into a world of divine enigmas and newfound faith. Eztli discovers the profound art of forgiveness through her friendship with a compassionate Spanish nun and indigenous missionaries. Sacred Threads is a captivating historical fiction that unveils the power of faith, love, and reconciliation, offering a unique perspective on the Virgin Mary’s apparitions through the eyes of a fierce Aztec woman. Join Eztli on her transformative journey of cultural collision, as she becomes a beacon of hope and unity in a world torn apart.
Download or read book The Sacred Thread written by Adrienne Arieff and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching and surprising memoir about one woman's journey to motherhood and family that illustrates the power of love and triumph of the human spirit. After three heartbreaking losses, Adrienne Arieff thought her dreams of becoming a mother might never come true. She and her husband soon discovered, however, that parenthood was still possible, but it would require a gift from a perfect stranger, faith and determination. Half a world away, in a small village in India, Vaina was happily married with three small children, but with little means to support her family or to build a better life. So Adrienne traveled to Anand, in a remote rural pocket of India near the Pakistani border, where the Akansksha clinic is located, to meet with Dr. Nayna Patel, an expert in surrogacy. There, Adrienne met Vaina, who courageously agreed to be a surrogate and carry Adrienne's child, an act which would, in turn, help Vaina to provide for her own children. After a course of IVF in India, Adrienne's role was just beginning in a process that as yet has no firm set of social mores. Unlike many genetic moms who return to their homes and wait for their baby to be born, Adrienne couldn't bear to have this pregnancy progress without her. She wanted to feel a connection both to her growing child and to Vaina, the woman who was offering this remarkable gift. So Adrienne decided to go back to Anand, to be Vaina's partner for the last months of her pregnancy. This choice brought its own heartaches and revelations, chief among them, how do you develop a relationship when you don't share a language or culture? But somehow these two mothers, united by a shared goal, found that within weeks, they could say anything and everything with just one look, one squeeze of the hand, one smile. Poignant, eye-opening, and bittersweet, The Sacred Thread is a memoir of the astonishing journey these two young women took to create a family through international surrogacy. It is the very personal story of embarking upon this process, and shedding light on a growing medical trend that is often shrouded in misconception and prejudice. But, more importantly, The Sacred Thread is a tale of immersing oneself in a foreign culture and foreign land; becoming part of a group of expectant mothers, bonded by their hope for children, and following them on the euphoric highs and crushing lows of their journey; and the development of a deep bond between women who have absolutely nothing in common, except for a shared love of family and children.
Download or read book A Sacred Thread written by Raymond Brady Williams and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are UFOs? And what did happen in Hanger 57? This book looks into the stories behind the sightings, including several closed military files that may have some very strange evidence within them.
Download or read book The Sacred Thread written by J. L. Brockington and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Space Sacred Thread written by John W. Welch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insightful studies contained in this book will be of significant value to anyone interested in experiencing more deeply the intersections between materiality and spirituality. Part 1 introduces readers into Egyptian, Israelite, Christian, and Hindu temples, shrines, or sanctuaries. Part 2 helps readers understand how items of colored fabrics, clothing, robes, and veils, convey ritual meanings. Part 3 reports two panel discussions that exemplify the pathway of fruitful conversation. Matter and spirit might seem to some to be polar opposites. But as these studies by distinguished and diverse scholars demonstrate, spiritual experiences are constructively defined and refined within the coordinates of place and time. Sacred space, as well as sacred cloth, define borders, but not necessarily boundaries, between the sacred and the profane. These material coordinates physically enclose and also spiritually disclose. They both symbolize and synergize, as they encompass and expansively inspire. These original and enjoyable presentations will help all readers to hold tenaciously to the tenets and also the tensions inherent in physical spiritual experiences.
Download or read book The Upanayana written by Ram Chandra Prasad and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upanayana is one of the sixteen samskaras or purificatory rites in which a boy is invested with the sacred thread and thus endowedwith second or spiritual birth and qualified to learn the Veda by heart. In this ceremony the boy goes to an Acarya well-versed in the Vedas with a view to be initiated into Vedic studies or a Guru draws a boy towards himself and initiates him into one of the three twice-born classes. From the day the initiation ceremony takes place the young celibate commits himself to a life of austerity and abstinence; he chooses to lead a life rigorously disciplined by vows and disciplinary rules.
Download or read book Making Sense written by E. Mara Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious. Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book shows that emergent language is an ethical endeavor, challenging readers to consider what it means, and what it takes, to understand and to be understood.
Download or read book Indian Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Face written by Na Mogasale and published by Manipal Universal Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a fictitious village called Kanthapura in Kasaragod district, Mukh?ntara spans across the life of seven generations of a Havyaka Brahmin family. A story about the realities of living in a society marked by caste distinctions, the desire to find communal harmony and the tribulations of the characters through the entirety of the novel, it is also a tale of changing times and people. After unexpectedly coming into possession of a huge portion of land, Thirumal?shwara Bhat of ?shwar?m?le becomes a satisfied man. But childless, Thirumal?shwara Bhat and his wife P?rvathakka decide to adopt Venkappaiah and also give shelter to his widowed mother, Rathnamma. Venkappaiah is to inherit Thirumal?shwara’s vast wealth but when Krishnaiah, the illegitimate child of Thirumal?shwara and Rathnamma is born, rivalry ensues. Through the overlapping narratives of the characters, we get a glimpse into their journey from tradition to modernity. The characters strive to reshape new values when old values are slowly questioned and erased as they move on and are swept along in the waves of globalization.
Download or read book Te Aho Tapu written by Mick Pendergrast and published by Raupo. This book was released on 1987 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the techniques, styles and history of the art of Maori women's weaving.
Download or read book Casting Kings written by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But focus in these studies is typically placed on the way caste is imagined according to the agendas and desires of elite Westerners such as colonial officials. In this book, by contrast, the author argues that Bhats themselves understand the imaginative dimensions of caste relations. Indeed, such insights are shown to lie at the heart of the Bhats traditional profession of praise- and insult-singing. Likewise, the author demonstrates how the ability to cleverly rework and even sabotage lingering caste inequalities continues to form the basis for Bhat claims to status and dignity in contemporary India.
Download or read book The Sacred Thread written by J. L. Brockington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic introduction to Hinduism, now updated and including 14 illustrations of the Hindu deities, takes the Western reader through the concepts of the Hindu faith, from its Vedic origins to its present development.
Download or read book With Sacred Threads written by Susan Towner-Larsen and published by Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creation of the Universe written by Srikanth s and published by Srikanth s. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important modern scientific truths lie hidden in the highly colourful and symbolical language of the Vedas. Brahma does not mean the theological object of worship, but, it means ‘atomic state which pervades in 58 digits’. The ancients measured distances not even in astronomical light years that proved inadequate, but, in number of digits. ‘Hiranyaksha’ should not be taken as a demon. It indicates ‘gravitational power of the molten matter inside the earth’. Dhaataa or ‘Brahmaa’ is a star standing at a distance of 39 digits and Sarasvatee is its cosmic energy. The Universe as a whole is contracting. The Earth began to cool 1,000,000,000,000 (1 followed by 12-zeroes) years ago. Universe will go on contracting till it finally collapses in 33 digits of years according to our planet. “Om” is not a mere sound but an actual cosmic state which comes into being, when at the initial stage the three Gunas of Prakriti give rise by their interaction to the four states of matter called the charges, atomic, molecule and particle states, and consequently has dimensions like a concrete substance. Gods are stars with supernatural powers, such as the cosmic rays, attraction, repulsion etc. Shiva and Paarvattee are the names given to the spiritual and material aspects.
Download or read book The Sacred Thread written by J. L. Brockington and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book G yatr the Highest Meditation written by Keshavadas (Satguru Sant) and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest Meditationdescribes the Gayatri, the mantra which helps the higher man to be born in us all. Sant Keshavadas profoundly tells the meaning and many facets (water rites, sitting posture, time, atmosphere, breath controle, pronunciation of sacred sounds) of this ancient meditation. there are few books available on the Gayatri meditationin English. Professor T.K.Venkateswaran of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Detroit, praises Sant Keshavadas Work and States that if the Gayatri Mantra is understood, repeated, and meditated upon, in the manner in which it is presented in this book, it will illumine the intellect and produce the highest bliss, creativity, and success in the world.
