The Heartland of Divinity

2011-02-03 Travel

Author : Aruna Sharma
Release : 2011-02-03
Genre : Travel
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Download or read book The Heartland of Divinity written by Aruna Sharma. This book was released on 2011-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madhya Pradesh is a region brimming with diversity, visibly prominent in its culture and customs. Home to people from different communities, religions and tribes, Madhya Pradesh is blessed with a unique cultural and religious identity - the heart of incredible India can be described as a cauldron of fairs and festivals. The fairs, festivals and celebrations in the state act as the common thread binding the various local communities. The geographical diversity of Madhya Pradesh is a treat. It is an opportunity to experience, participate and enjoy the vibrant local culture of the heartland and understand its ethos. Amidst the natural beauty of the state - rivers, mountains, forests and the breathtaking man-made structures - the fairs and festivals of Madhya Pradesh leave an everlasting impression on every visitor’s mind.

Muslims of the Heartland

2023-11-07 History

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
Release : 2023-11-07
Genre : History
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Download or read book Muslims of the Heartland written by Edward E. Curtis IV. This book was released on 2023-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them. Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled like—from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.

Discovery of Divinity Within

2002 Journalists

Author : Sourin Banerji
Release : 2002
Genre : Journalists
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Download or read book Discovery of Divinity Within written by Sourin Banerji. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an Indian journalist.

Rewriting God

2021-11-22 Literary Criticism

Author : Elaine Lindsay
Release : 2021-11-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Rewriting God written by Elaine Lindsay. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are rarely if ever mentioned in commentaries upon Australian Christianity and spirituality. Only exceptional women are recognized as authorities on religious matters. Why is this so? Does it matter? Don't people from the same religious tradition share similar experiences of the divine, regardless of their gender? Rewriting God asks whether women have been writing about the divine and whether their insights are different from those contained in malestream accounts of Australian Christianity and spirituality. An analysis of the writings of popular theologians and religious commentators over the last twenty years suggests that the most popular form of spirituality among Australian theologians is Desert Spirituality. An analysis of women's autobiographical writings, however, suggests that the desert is irrelevant to many women's spiritual experiences. This book, through a close investigation of the fictions of Thea Astley, Elizabeth Jolley and Barbara Hanrahan, attempts to posit alternative forms of women's spirituality and to signal ways in which this spirituality is already being expressed. From the evidence gathered here, it becomes obvious that traditional expressions of Australian Christianity and spirituality are gender-specific and that they have functioned to deny women's religious experiences and to silence their claims to equality in the sight and service of the divine. It becomes obvious, too, that women have been developing their own forms of religious expression and that these may be expected to supplant gradually withering images of Desert Spirituality. Whether this new imagery will strengthen Australian Christianity or whether it merely marks a decline in the authority of Christianity remains a moot point.

Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds

2022-01-04 Religion

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Release : 2022-01-04
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds written by . This book was released on 2022-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

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