Fire Possessed

Author : Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of Fire Insurance Companies for Year Ending December 31 written by Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538411
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring written by Mark Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material. Many of his writings are explicitly political in their concerns, for Wagner was emphatically not a revolutionary solely for the sake of art. Yet it would be misleading to see even the most 'political' tracts as somehow divorced from the aesthetic realm; Wagner's radical challenge to liberal-democratic politics makes no such distinction. This book considers Wagner's treatment of various worlds: nature, politics, economics, and metaphysics, in order to explain just how radical that challenge is. Classical interpretations have tended to opt either for an 'optimistic' view of the Ring, centred upon the influence of Young Hegelian thought - in particular the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach - and Wagner's concomitant revolutionary politics, or for the 'pessimistic' option, removing the disillusioned Wagner-in-Swiss-exile from the political sphere and stressing the undoubtedly important role of Arthur Schopenhauer. Such an 'either-or' approach seriously misrepresents not only Wagner's compositional method but also his intellectual method. It also sidelines inconvenient aspects of the dramas that fail to 'fit' whichever interpretation is selected. Wagner's tendency is not progressively to recant previous 'errors' in his oeuvre. Radical ideas are not completely replaced by a Schopenhauerian world-view, however loudly the composer might come to trumpet his apparent 'conversion'. Nor is Wagner's truly an Hegelian method, although Hegelian dialectic plays an important role. In fact, Wagner is in many ways not really a systematic thinker at all (which is not to portray him as self-consciously unsystematic in a Nietzschean, let alone 'post-modernist' fashion). His tendency, rather, is agglomerative,

Author : Frederick M. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510659
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Self Possessed written by Frederick M. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He identifies several forms of possession, including festival, initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious identities. Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity, and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet, classical China, modern America, and elsewhere. Brilliant and persuasive, The Self Possessed provides careful new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive study in any language on this subject.

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Total Pages : 1394 pages
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Download or read book The Insurance Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra Toro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935604068
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Fire Possessed written by Sandra Toro and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Fire Possessed is historical fiction about the life of Doa Gracia Nasi, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women of the Renaissance. She used her power to rescue many thousands of Sephardic Jews from the genocidal persecution of the Inquisition. She was born to a family of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. They escaped to Portugal where they were again persecuted a few years later. Her husband built one of the largest commercial empires of the day, and after his death she assumed control of the business. Doa Gracia was arrested and jailed by the Inquisition in Venice, but she was eventually released and then moved to the Ottoman Empire, which allowed freedom of religious practice. She established communities for Jews escaping Europe in Ottoman territories. She was the single most important person rescuing Jews from the Inquisition.

Author : United States National Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Haberlandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnology written by Michael Haberlandt and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes human development and development of nations around the world according to individual cultures' place on "steps of human civilisation"

Author : Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Publisher : VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book THE MAHABHARATHA written by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa and published by VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kisari Mohan Ganguli was a translator from South-Asia or possibly from British-India, known for being the first to provide a complete translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata in English. His translation was published as The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose between 1883 and 1896, by Pratap Chandra Roy (1842–1895), a Calcutta bookseller.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
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Download or read book The True Christian Religion written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: