Chasing Eris

Author : Brenton Clutterbuck
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359313566
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Eris written by Brenton Clutterbuck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most influential religion you've never heard of: Discordianism took the world by storm when it was revealed to two young hippies in 1958 or 1959. Who would have thought this goofy nuttiness would eventually turn into a worldwide caper involving the assassination of a US President, Timothy Leary, a rubber gorilla, a ten hour play, a million pounds of burnt cash, the German secret service, a pumpkin launching trebuchet, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Charles Manson, twelve arrested New Orleans Mardi Gras participants, a series of murders, Kermit the frog, and an extremely confused Australian who wrote this very silly book? Not me, that's for sure. WITH A FORWARD BY JOHN HIGGS WITH AN AFTERWORD BY CRAMULUS

Author : Carole M. Cusack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317135490
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality written by Carole M. Cusack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new religions including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Church of Scientology, and the Children of God. New religions were regarded with suspicion by society in general and Religious Studies scholars alike until the 1990s, when the emergence of a second generation of 'new new' religions – based on popular cultural forms including films, novels, computer games and comic books – and highly individualistic spiritualities confirmed the utter transformation of the religio-spiritual landscape. Indeed, Scientology and ISKCON appeared almost traditional and conservative when compared to the radically de-institutionalised, eclectic, parodic, fun-loving and experimental fiction-based, invented and hyper-real religions. In this book, scholarly treatments of cutting-edge religious and spiritual trends are brought into conversation with contributions by representatives of Dudeism, the Church of All Worlds, the Temple of the Jedi Order and Tolkien spirituality groups. This book will simultaneously entertain, shock, challenge and delight scholars of religious studies, as well as those with a wider interest in new religious movements.

Author : Karina Jakubowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000359166
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century written by Karina Jakubowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the shifting and negotiated boundaries of religion, spirituality, and secular thinking in Britain and North America during the twentieth century. It contributes to a growing scholarship that problematises secularization theory, arguing that religion and spirituality increasingly took diverse new forms and identities, rather than simply being replaced by a monolithic secularity. The volume examines the way that thinkers, writers, and artists manipulated and reimagined orthodox belief systems in their work, using the notion of heresy to delineate the borders of what was considered socially and ethically acceptable. It includes topics such as psychospiritual approaches in medicine, countercultures and religious experience, and the function of blasphemy within supposedly secular politics. The book argues that heresy and heretical identities established fluid borderlands. These borderlands not only blur simple demarcations of the religious and secular in the twentieth century, but also infer new forms of heterodoxy through an exchange of ideas. This collection of essays offers a nuanced take on a topic that pervades the study of religion. It will be of great use to scholars of Heresy Studies, Religious Studies and Comparative Religion, Social Anthropology, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies.

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Publisher : Rvp Press
ISBN 13 : 9781618613219
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historia Discordia written by and published by Rvp Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most extensive collection in print documenting the Discordian Society's wild and wooly legacy, Historia Discordia features the unique worldview and wit of such illuminated iconoclasts as Robert Anton Wilson and Discordian founders Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley. Chronicling Discordianism's halcyon days, Historia Discordia presents a fun and freewheeling romp through rare photos, holy tracts, art collages, and fnords, many of which appear for the first time in print. "Like communication-god Thoth with his yammering ape, like the all-important noise that Count Korzybski assures us must accompany our every signal, no harmony is possible without an acknowledgement and understanding of discord. Born from the bowling-alley epiphanies of Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, its disruptive teachings disseminated through the incendiary writings of Robert Anton Wilson and other Eristic luminaries, the Discordian Society has unexpectedly become a landmark of gleefully aggressive sanity in a chaotic and incoherent world. Through this book, we can all involve ourselves in their gloriously constructive quarrel." --Alan Moore

Author : Michelle Cicconi Storm
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105402924
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Rome written by Michelle Cicconi Storm and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princesss from a previously unknown Island kingdom makes a tour of Europe introducing herself and her people to it's Kings. Their last stop is Rome who is unprepared for women who are bold, daring, brave and kneel to none. Entranced by their leader is Cesare Borgia, named Cardinal of the church despite his protests, by his father the Pope. He is also a drunken, murdering, lech, reveling in the worst of Rome's debauchery. While all else has given up on him cursing him for his name, this Princess, Enyo sees a good man within him. He finds himself willing to do anything at all to please her, to be the man she sees in him. Even defy his father, Alexander VI the Holy Pope of Rome and risk his wrath.

Author : Peter Reuter
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Dirty Money written by Peter Reuter and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, efforts to combat money foundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes and, most recently, terrorism. In this study, the authors look at the scale and characteristics of money laundering, describe and assess the current anti-money laundering regime, and make proposals for its improvement. -- From back cover.

Author : Owen Wilkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Gravity's Rainbow written by Owen Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Stern
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 125009898X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

Author : Paul Bowman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850360
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Bruce Lee written by Paul Bowman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and it addresses the resurgence of his popularity in Hong Kong and China in the twenty-first century. The study also explores Lee's ongoing legacy and influence in the West, considering his function as a shifting symbol of ethnic politics and the ways in which he continues to inform Hollywood film-fight choreography. Beyond Bruce Lee ultimately argues Lee is best understood in terms of "cultural translation" and that his interventions and importance are ongoing.

Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eris written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: