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Author : Peter Brown
Release : 1997-08-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Authority and the Sacred by : Peter Brown
Download or read book Authority and the Sacred written by Peter Brown. This book was released on 1997-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His illuminating analysis of religious change as the art of the possible has a wide relevance for other periods and regions.
Author : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Release : 1997
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Book Synopsis Authority and the Sacred by : Peter Robert Lamont Brown
Download or read book Authority and the Sacred written by Peter Robert Lamont Brown. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Kosiba
Release : 2020
Genre : SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Book Synopsis Sacred Matter by : Steve Kosiba
Download or read book Sacred Matter written by Steve Kosiba. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on the central roles objects and places played in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica. Pre-Columbian peoples staked claims to their authority when they animated matter by giving life to grandiose buildings, speaking with deified boulders, and killing valued objects. Likewise things and places often animated people by demanding labor, care, and nourishment. In these practices of animation, things were cast as active subjects, agents of political change, and representatives of communities. People were positioned according to specific social roles and stations: workers, worshippers, revolutionaries, tribute payers, or authorities. Such practices manifested political visions of social order by defining relationships between people, things, and the environment. Contributors to this volume present a range of perspectives (archaeological, art historical, ethnohistorical, and linguistic) to shed light on how Pre-Columbian social authority was claimed and sanctified in practices of transformation and transubstantiation--that is, practices that birthed, converted, or destroyed certain objects and places, as well as the social and natural order from which these things were said to emerge.
Author : Kenton L. Sparks
Release : 2012-04-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sacred Word, Broken Word by : Kenton L. Sparks
Download or read book Sacred Word, Broken Word written by Kenton L. Sparks. This book was released on 2012-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is a religious masterpiece. Its authors cast a profound vision for the healing of humanity through the power of divine love, grace and forgiveness. But the Bible also contains "dark texts" that challenge our ethical imagination. How can one book teach us to love our enemies and also teach us to slaughter Canaanites? Why does a book that preaches the equality of all people -- male and female, slave and free, Greek and Jew -- also include laws that permit God's people to trade in slaves and to persecute those of a different faiths or ethnicities? In Sacred Word, Broken Word Kenton Sparks argues that the "dark side" of Scripture is not an illusion. Rather, these dark texts remind us that all human beings, including the biblical authors, stand in need of God's redemptive solution in Jesus Christ.
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African Religions by : Jacob K. Olupona
Download or read book African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
