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Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Release : 2006
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rite Out of Place by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book Rite Out of Place written by Ronald L. Grimes. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Release : 2006-08-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 809/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rite out of Place by : Ronald L. Grimes
Download or read book Rite out of Place written by Ronald L. Grimes. This book was released on 2006-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.
Author : Richard Wright
Release : 1995-12-19
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 11X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rite of Passage by : Richard Wright
Download or read book Rite of Passage written by Richard Wright. This book was released on 1995-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . " Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life--the hard way. Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as when it was first written, over fifty years ago. ‘Johnny Gibbs arrives home jubilantly one day with his straight ‘A’ report card to find his belongings packed and his mother and sister distraught. Devastated when they tell him that he is not their blood relative and that he is being sent to a new foster home, he runs away. His secure world quickly shatters into a nightmare of subways, dark alleys, theft and street warfare. . . . Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a enw generation of readers to Wright’s powerful voice.’—SLJ. Notable 1995 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Author : Hannah Kent
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Burial Rites by : Hannah Kent
Download or read book Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
Author : Brandi Dawn Henderson
Release : 2015-07-13
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis WHEREABOUTS: Stepping Out of Place by : Brandi Dawn Henderson
Download or read book WHEREABOUTS: Stepping Out of Place written by Brandi Dawn Henderson. This book was released on 2015-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEREABOUTS: STEPPING OUT OF PLACE is an anthology of the best nonfiction stories from Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine, an online journal founded in 2011. Editor Brandi Dawn Henderson presents thirty-eight emerging and established global storytellers who share stories discussing what it means to enter a new place; the kinds of worlds that exist to others that we, ourselves, do not experience; and how place and/or circumstance can affect who and how we are. Whether it is the story of a dog musher’s girlfriend, a heavy-metal-loving Marine, an Inner Mongolian lover, or a Mormon missionary living in a dangerous land, this anthology explores the question: Why does anyone take the first step to anywhere he or she doesn’t “belong?”
