Thirteen Turns

2020-06-01 Religion

Author : Larry Donell Covin Jr.
Release : 2020-06-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Thirteen Turns by : Larry Donell Covin Jr.

Download or read book Thirteen Turns written by Larry Donell Covin Jr.. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is remarkable that African Americans, the descendants of slaves, embrace Christianity at all. The imagination that is necessary to parse biblical text and find within it a theology that speaks to their context is a testimony to their will to survive in a hostile land. Black religion embraces the cross and the narrative of Jesus as savior, both theologically and culturally. But this does not suggest that African Americans have not historically, and do not now, struggle with the reconciliation of the cross, black life, suffering. African Americans are well aware of the shared relationship of Christianity with the white oppressors of history. The religion that helped African Americans to survive is the religion that was instrumental in their near genocide.

The Thirteenth Turn

2014-08-26 Social Science

Author : Jack Shuler
Release : 2014-08-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Turn written by Jack Shuler. This book was released on 2014-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America. The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past -- and present. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Even today, hanging is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. And the noose remains a potent cultural symbol. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to menace black students, made national news. Yet little has changed: according to author Jack Shuler, there have been nearly 100 "noose incidents" just in the last two years. The Thirteenth Turn unravels these stories, from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. In his travels across America, Shuler traces the evolution of this dark practice. As he investigates the death of John Brown, or the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," he finds that the very places that perpetrated these acts now seek to forget them. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: a reminder that vigilantes and hangmen play a crucial role in our national story. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget.

Thirteen

2008-02-28 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Lauren Myracle
Release : 2008-02-28
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Thirteen written by Lauren Myracle. This book was released on 2008-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnie Perry is a teenager—at last! And it’s a really big deal. A ginormous deal, that, wouldn’t you know it, brings ginormous problems along with it. Winnie’s bff #1 is growing up too slowly, while her bff #2 is growing up too fast, leaving Winnie stuck in the middle. Winnie’s boyfriend, Lars, is fabulous—except when he’s not. And as for Winnie’s family, well, big changes are in the air! Beloved author Lauren Myracle returns with first kisses and near misses for everyone’s favorite birthday girl.

Thirteen Turns

2016-01-21

Author : Brian Clark
Release : 2016-01-21
Genre :
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Book Rating : 851/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Thirteen Turns written by Brian Clark. This book was released on 2016-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton Halverson, a rapist and murderer who escaped justice, has just been found hanging in his basement, a victim of an occult ritual. Detective McKenna is given the investigation, and thrust back into a case that was mothballed ... because he made a mistake. Milton was that mistake. Someone has brought justice, but justice may be a vigilante to be feared. As Detective McKenna and his partner press reluctantly on the case they find it intimately tied to a rapist terrorizing universities they have been unable to catch, and to a very old and dark occult ritual. Clues and evidence that once lead nowhere are now coming together on a single malevolent path. An expert on the occult is brought in and her unexpected ties to the case casts them all into a web of lost romance, inner demons, and painful memories that lead them all closer to the truth, and the rapist they are trying to stop before he attacks again. The devil is more than in the details. This devil is at the core of the attacks, and she has a plan.

To be Thirteen

2017 Photography

Author : Rebecca A. Senf
Release : 2017
Genre : Photography
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Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book To be Thirteen written by Rebecca A. Senf. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling around the United States, the Guggenheim grant recipient spent 2012 chronicling 250 13 year olds, creating still portraits and video documentation of each. The resulting body of work creates a rich collective portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and who are coming of age now. To Be Thirteen depicts all 250 portraits with brief quotations from the extended video interviews and an interview by Center for Creative Photography Chief Curator Rebecca Senf with Schneider, unpacking details about the artist's process, insights about the project and how it changed her, as well as longer excerpts from the subjects. This publication captures and conveys the experience of meeting with the artist and looking through a stack of prints with her, and will complement an exhibition of the project debuting at the Phoenix Art Museum in the spring of 2018. -- Publisher's website.

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