A Spirituality Of Resistance

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780742532830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spirituality of Resistance written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spirituality of Resistance addresses the challenges of creating a spiritual life in the midst of unprecedented environmental crisis. In the end, Gottlieb finds that only through striving to protect the earth and all its inhabitants can one find authentic personal and spiritual peace.

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Crossroad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spirituality of Resistance written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal and powerful book speaks to anyone who has ever wondered how to be happy when there is so much suffering in the world -- anyone who seeks a peaceful heart in a dark time.

Author : Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063191
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings written by Donna Aza Weir-Soley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provocative . . . articulates the importance of embodied, erotic spirituality to black female subjectivity and empowerment."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Sets out to reclaim the right of black women to their sexual and erotic expression untainted by the stereotypes and disparagements that have historically confined them."--African American Review "Captures one of the most challenging concerns of scholars who engage black women's literature, culture, and theory: the ongoing quest to locate a form of black female sexual agency that neither withers in the chilly lake of sexual repression nor explodes in the heat of hypersexual stereotypes."--MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States "Successfully undertakes an analysis of how black women writers have used overlapping narrative depictions of sexuality and spirituality to recast the denigrated black female body and rewrite an empowered and fully actualized black female subject."--Candice M. Jenkins, author of Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy "Weir-Soley speaks with an authority that comes from real knowledge of, investment in, and attention to the details of the African cosmologies and textual complexities she unearths."--Carine Mardorossian, SUNY-Buffalo "The most original and significant contributions are the often brilliant readings of Morrison, Adisa, and Danticat. The work is riveting, both methodologically and critically."--Leslie Sanders, York University Western European mythology and history tend to view spirituality and sexuality as opposite extremes. But sex can be more than a function of the body and religion more than a function of the mind, as exemplified in the works and characters of such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Edwidge Danticat. Donna Weir-Soley builds on the work of previous scholars who have identified the ways that black women's narratives often contain a form of spirituality rooted in African cosmology, which consistently grounds their characters' self-empowerment and quest for autonomy. What she adds to the discussion is an emphasis on the importance of sexuality in the development of black female subjectivity, beginning with Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and continuing into contemporary black women's writings. Writing in a clear, lucid, and straightforward style, Weir-Soley supports her thesis with close readings of various texts, including Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Morrison's Beloved. She reveals how these writers highlight the interplay between the spiritual and the sexual through religious symbols found in Voudoun, Santeria, Condomble, Kumina, and Hoodoo. Her arguments are particularly persuasive in proposing an alternative model for black female subjectivity.

Author : Seth M. Limmer
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881233196
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority written by Seth M. Limmer and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This foundational new book reminds us of our ancient obligation to bring justice to the world. The essays in this collection explore the spiritual underpinnings of our Jewish commitment to justice, using Jewish text and tradition, as well as contemporary sources and models. Among the topics covered are women's health, LGBTQ rights, healthcare, racial justice, speaking truth to power, and community organizing.

Author : Vince Amlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829821451
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise Up! written by Vince Amlin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether you're leading a justice effort at church or headed to the nearest protest, resistance work can be spiritually exhausting. Rise Up is a year's worth of devotions -- 52 weeks, 52 reflections -- to keep you burning bright without burning out." -- Publisher info.

Author : Robin Meyers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021376X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Defiance written by Robin Meyers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls readers back to the church’s roots as a community of resistance. Shifting the conversation about church renewal away from theological purity and marketing strategies that embrace cultural norms, and toward “embodied noncompliance” with the dominant culture, Meyers urges a return to the revolutionary spirit that marked Jesus’s ministry. Framing his discussion around three poems by twentieth-century Polish poet Anna Kamienska, Meyers casts the nature of faith as a force that stands against anything and everything that engenders death and indignity. He calls for active—sometimes even subversive—defiance of the ego’s temptations, of what he terms “the heresy of orthodoxy itself,” and of an uncritical acceptance of militarism and capitalism. Each chapter is a poignant and urgent invitation to recover the Jesus Movement as a Beloved Community of Resistance.

Author : Connie L. Habash
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 164250081X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awakening from Anxiety written by Connie L. Habash and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this spiritual guide to equip yourself with the tools needed to tear down anxiety and build inner peace. Spiritual people often find that their own expectations of living a life dedicated to a higher power makes them more susceptible to high-functioning anxiety. Sometimes, traditional relaxation techniques either do not work, don’t last, or, in some cases, actually increase their anxiety. Psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and interfaith minister Rev. Connie L. Habash has helped hundreds of spiritual people overcome fear and anxiety, regain happiness, and feel calmer. In over twenty-five years as a counselor helping spiritual people overcome anxiety, Rev. Connie has taught that it takes more than chanting mantras, stretching, or relaxation techniques to calm anxiety. It requires a transformation in perception, moment-to-moment body awareness, and a conscious response to thoughts and emotions. Awakening from Anxiety provides valuable psycho-spiritual tools to deepen spiritual awakening and calm fears:Learn what anxiety is and when it becomes a problemUnderstand the six mistakes spiritual people make that increase anxietyDiscover the seven keys to a more calm, confident, courageous lifeKnow how to break through the old patterns of stress, worry, and fear into a new perception of your true selfExplore spiritual principles and yoga philosophy to cultivate inner peace If you enjoyed Stop Anxiety from Stopping You and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Awakening from Anxiety will take your healing and renewal from anxiety to the next level. “A book I will recommend to many for both practical advice and spiritual insights for handling stress, worry, and anxiety.”?Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Calm

Author : Max Popov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778167
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weight-Resistance Yoga written by Max Popov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform strength training into a mindful, meditative practice • Explains how to induce a calm, meditative state through the movements, breathing, and focus of strength-training exercises • Contains illustrated instructions for 26 exercises to safely strengthen the neck, shoulders, arms, hips, knees, ankles, and torso • Offers themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises to facilitate a mindful state during your session • The perfect complement to a yoga flexibility practice Applying the wisdom of hatha yoga to weight-lifting exercises, Weight-Resistance Yoga reveals how to transform a strength-training session into a mindful, calm, and meditative yoga practice. Through 26 fully illustrated weight-resistance exercises using machines, free weights, and the body itself--along with an emphasis on coordinated rhythmic breathing, stability, stillness, and full absorption in the body’s movements against resistance--fitness trainer Max Popov explains how to access the tranquility that dwells within each of us while safely, effectively, and efficiently strengthening your neck, shoulders, arms, torso, hips, knees, and ankles. To support the meditative state of this practice, the author includes 20 themed meditations on the embodied experience of the exercises. The perfect complement to yoga flexibility practice, weight-resistance yoga allows you to fully inhabit your body, empty your mind of everyday preoccupations, and fill your soul with comprehensions of deeper realities, providing strength, calm, and spiritual illumination through your physical fitness work.

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199987092
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirituality written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger S. Gottlieb provides a lucid and accessible overview of what spirituality is, enabling a clear-eyed understanding of the concept, its manifold connections to other aspects of personal and social life, its role as a positive psychological and social phenomenon, and some of the risks that attend it.

Author : De La Torre, Miguel A.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833712X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump written by De La Torre, Miguel A. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: