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Living with the Gods

2018-09-17 Religion
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Release : 2018-09-17
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Book Synopsis Living with the Gods by : Neil MacGregor

Download or read book Living with the Gods written by Neil MacGregor. This book was released on 2018-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, a panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany 'Riveting, extraordinary ... tells the sweeping story of religious belief in all its inventive variety. The emphasis is not on our differences, but on shared spiritual yearnings' Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, Books of the Year One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious. Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are. For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other. 'The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor ... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back ... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society' Sunday Times

Haunted by Christ

2018-09-20 Religion
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Release : 2018-09-20
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Haunted by Christ by : Richard Harries

Download or read book Haunted by Christ written by Richard Harries. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Elizabeth Jennings, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Stevie Smith . . . These are some of the great poets and novelists whose struggles with faith find expression in their works, and who demonstrate the fascinatingly different forms that faith can take in different times and places. Richard Harries considers the work of twenty of these writers, painting vivid pictures of their lives and times. He also provides numerous critically sympathetic insights into the spiritual dimension of their writings. The result is a book for readers of all religious persuasions, especially those who are fascinated by the ways in which faith is refracted through the lens of great poetry and fiction. Also by Richard Harries: The Beauty and the Horror (SPCK, 2016) ‘A major new defence of Christianity that does not flinch from asking difficult questions about the kind of God who could have created our world.’ The Bookseller ‘A heartening book, confronting the hardest questions with wide knowledge and deep wisdom.’ John Carey, Chief Literary Reviewer, Sunday Times ‘An eloquent, honest and engaging case for Christian faith.’ The Tablet ‘A deeply interesting book.’ Mary Warnock

Living with the Gods

2018-10-30 History
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Release : 2018-10-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Living with the Gods by : Neil MacGregor

Download or read book Living with the Gods written by Neil MacGregor. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society. Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from being marginalized, the relationship between faith and society has moved to the center of politics and global conversation. Neil MacGregor's new book traces the ways in which different societies have understood and articulated their places in the cosmic scheme. It examines mankind's beliefs not from the perspective of institutional religions but according to how shared narratives have shaped societies—and what happens when different narratives run up against each other. As he did in A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation, MacGregor brilliantly combines objects, places, and ideas to examine and, ultimately, illuminate these pressing contemporary concerns.

A Life with the Gods in Their Yoruba Homeland

1983 Art and religion
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Release : 1983
Genre : Art and religion
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Book Synopsis A Life with the Gods in Their Yoruba Homeland by : Susanne Wenger

Download or read book A Life with the Gods in Their Yoruba Homeland written by Susanne Wenger. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valley of the Gods

2017-01-10 Business & Economics
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Release : 2017-01-10
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Valley of the Gods by : Alexandra Wolfe

Download or read book Valley of the Gods written by Alexandra Wolfe. This book was released on 2017-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Wall Street Journal columnist for "Weekend Confidential" explores the hubris and ambition of Silicon Valley innovators who are changing the world, tracing the stories of three upstarts who left promising college educations in favor of developing billion-dollar ideas"--NoveList.

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