Practicing Safer Texts

Author : Kenneth Stone
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567081728
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Safer Texts written by Kenneth Stone and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for examining a number of texts from the Hebrew Bible, as well as later readings of those texts and interpretive issues raised by the texts. A range of biblical texts in which both food and sex appear are analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion with the help of both traditional tools of biblical scholarship and less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology. By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, the book will among other things question the tendency of readers of the Bible to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other matters of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern, such as food. At the same time, as the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, the book also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a sort of loose model. Such an approach assesses texts and readings of the Bible not in a universalizing fashion but rather in terms of their likely effects, for good or ill, on particular readers in particular contexts and situations (just as notions of "safer sex" ask us to assess sexual acts not in a moralizing fashion but, rather, in terms of their likely effects on particular persons.

Author : Ralph S. G. Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Text-book of Rand Metallurgical Practice written by Ralph S. G. Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567659941
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture written by Hannah Bacon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourses inform contemporary weight-loss narratives. Bacon argues that notions of sin and salvation resurface in secular guise in ways that repeat well-established theological meanings. The slimming organization recycles the Christian terminology of sin – spelt 'Syn' – and encourages members to frame weight loss in salvific terms. These theological tropes lurk in the background helping to align food once more with guilt and moral weakness, but they also mirror to an extent the way body policing techniques in Christianity have historically helped to cultivate self-care. The self-breaking and self-making aspects of women's Syn-watching practices in the group continue certain features of historical Christianity, serving in similar ways to conform women's bodies to patriarchal norms while providing opportunities for women's self-development. Taking into account these tensions, Bacon asks what a specifically feminist theological response to weight loss might look like. If ideas about sin and salvation service hegemonic discourses about fat while also empowering women to shape their own lives, how might they be rethought to challenge fat phobia and the frenetic pursuit of thinness? As well as naming as 'sin' principles and practices which diminish women's appetites and bodies, this book forwards a number of proposals about how salvation might be performed in our everyday eating habits and through the cultivation of fat pride. It takes seriously the conviction of many women in the group that food and the body can be important sites of power, wisdom and transformation, but channels this insight into the construction of theologies that resist rather than reproduce thin privilege and size-ist norms.

Author : Allen Corson Cowperthwaite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine written by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Paton Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plumbing, a Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber, with Supplementary Chapters Upon House Drainage ... written by William Paton Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. LeRon Shults
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360956
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practicing Safe Sects written by F. LeRon Shults and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?

Author : Elwood Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text Book for Reading Course in Irrigation Practice written by Elwood Mead and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Bernard Kester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.OG/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accounting Theory and Practice ...: First year text written by Roy Bernard Kester and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Francis Waugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Text Book of Alkaloidal Practice written by William Francis Waugh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dirk von der Horst
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498244858
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan’s Loves, David’s Laments written by Dirk von der Horst and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments uses early modern musical interpretations of David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan to deepen the historicist foundations of contemporary feminist and gay relational theologies. After laying out how gay theologian Gary David Comstock connects the story of David and Jonathan to the theology of lesbian theologian Carter Heyward, the argument interrogates both theological and exegetical problems in making those connections, which include contradictory theological stances with regard to modernity and history as well as the indeterminacy of the biblical text. Early modern musical interpretations of the text allow for a double move of engaging the texts through a sensual medium, thus reinforcing queer possibilities for meaning-making from the biblical text, and staying attuned to the fact that the history of interpretation reinforces the indeterminacy of the text, thus keeping queer interpretations aware of the relativizing function of historical difference.