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Book Sacrifices  past  present  and future

Download or read book Sacrifices past present and future written by Joseph D'Arcy Sirr and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Theological Ethics  Past  Present  and Future

Download or read book Catholic Theological Ethics Past Present and Future written by James F. Keenan and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological ethicists confront key questions and issues from around the globe to provide a 'state of the art' volume in 21st-century moral theology.

Book Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel

Download or read book Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel written by Heath D. Dewrell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a practice could have ever existed. Nonetheless, the existence of biblical condemnation of these rites attests to the fact that some ancient Israelites in fact did sacrifice their children. Indeed, a close reading of the evidence—biblical, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.—indicates that there are at least three different types of Israelite child sacrifice, each with its own history, purpose, and function. In addition to examining the historical reality of Israelite child sacrifice, Dewrell’s study also explores the biblical rhetoric condemning the practice. While nearly every tradition preserved in the Hebrew Bible rejects child sacrifice as abominable to Yahweh, the rhetorical strategies employed by the biblical writers vary to a surprising degree. Thus, even in arguing against the practice of child sacrifice, the biblical writers themselves often disagreed concerning why Yahweh condemned the rites and why they came to exist in the first place.

Book Diversity of Sacrifice

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  • Author : Carrie Ann Murray
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2016-05-09
  • ISBN : 1438459963
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Diversity of Sacrifice written by Carrie Ann Murray and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "sacrifice" belies what is a complex and varied transhistorical and transcultural phenomenon. Bringing together scholars from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy, literature, and theology, Diversity of Sacrifice explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. Incorporating theory, material culture, and textual evidence, the volume seeks to consider new and divergent data related to contexts of sacrifice that can help broaden our field of vision while raising new questions. The essays contributed here move beyond reductive and simple explanations to explore complex areas of social interaction. Sacrifice plays a key role in the overlapping sacred and secular spheres for a number of societies in the past and present. How religious beliefs and practices can be integral parts of life on individual and community levels is of fundamental importance to understanding the past and present. In addition to aiding scholarly research, Diversity of Sacrifice enables students to explore this rich theme across Europe and the Mediterranean with clear discussions of theory and data.

Book Prophecy  Past  Present  and Future

Download or read book Prophecy Past Present and Future written by Calev Ben Avraham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A result of more than fifteen years of research and study, Prophecy: Past, Present, and Future examines the Bibles Book of Daniel and its predictions of some of historys major events. Author Calev Ben Avraham explains how God uses the royalty as signposts in the prophetic time elementknown by only a few biblical scholarsthus making it possible to pinpoint the exact time in prophecy for the end of days and the ending of Gentile rule over the earth. In Prophecy: Past, Present, and Future, Avraham refers to the Babylonian dynasty of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; Cyrus, king of the Persians; Alexander, the great emperor of Greece; and the emergence of Christianity under the Roman emperor Constantine. Through the Book of Daniel, he shows how the prophecy pertains not only to abdication for the royals but also to death by fatal accidents, such as Princess Grace and Princess Diana of England. He also explains how God will gather his people from the four corners of the earth back to the Holy Land in the very, very near future. Expand your study of prophecy and gain a new understanding of the years to come.

Book King of Sacrifice

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  • Author : Sarah Hitch
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book King of Sacrifice written by Sarah Hitch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.

Book The Past  Present  and Future of Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue

Download or read book The Past Present and Future of Theologies of Interreligious Dialogue written by Terrence Merrigan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen essays which reflect on the problematic relationship between religious diversity and interreligious dialogue by examining key issues that arise from attempting to do justice to the doctrinal tradition of Christianity.

Book Sacrifice Unveiled

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  • Author : Robert J. Daly
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2009-06-13
  • ISBN : 0567034208
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Sacrifice Unveiled written by Robert J. Daly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-06-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new understaning of sacrifice as a response to love and an entering into the self-giving life of God

Book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos

Download or read book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

Book The Transonic Sacrifice

Download or read book The Transonic Sacrifice written by Glen C. Cutlip and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.

Book The Scattered Nation  Past  Present  and Future

Download or read book The Scattered Nation Past Present and Future written by C. Schwartz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Book Family Sacrifices

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  • Author : Russell M. Jeung
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-06
  • ISBN : 0190875933
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Family Sacrifices written by Russell M. Jeung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two percent of Chinese Americans report having no religious affiliation, making them the least religiously-identified ethnic group in the United States. But that statistic obscures a much more complex reality. Family Sacrifices reveals that Chinese Americans employ familism, not religion, as the primary narrative by which they find meaning, identity, and belonging. As a transpacific lived tradition, Chinese American familism prioritizes family above other commitments and has roots in Chinese Popular Religion and Confucianism. The spiritual and ethical systems of China emphasize practicing rituals and cultivating virtue, whereas American religious research usually focuses on belief in the supernatural or belonging to a religious tradition. To address this gap in understanding, Family Sacrifices introduces the concept of liyi, translated as ritual propriety and righteous relations. Re-appropriated from its original Chinese usage, liyi offers a new way of understanding Chinese religion and a new lens for understanding the emergence of religious "nones" in the United States. The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in the United States.

Book The Book of Common Prayer  Past  Present and Future

Download or read book The Book of Common Prayer Past Present and Future written by Prudence Dailey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, underlining its current andcontinuing relevance.

Book Past  Present  and Future

Download or read book Past Present and Future written by James Edson White and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium

Download or read book The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium written by Claudia Moser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Book Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone

Download or read book Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone written by Julie K. Maldonado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana, USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective, Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles, Grand Caillou/Dulac, and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects, she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning.