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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968324
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Display written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Robbins Dexter
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ISBN 13 : 9781604976748
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Display written by Miriam Robbins Dexter and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures, from the Near East and Asia, and throughout ancient Europe; in prehistoric and early historic iconography, their magical qualities are often indicated by a magical dance or stance. It is a look at female display figures both cross-culturally and cross-temporally, through texts and iconography, beginning with figures depicted in very early Neolithic Anatolia, early and middle Neolithic southeast Europe--Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia--continuing through the late Neolithic in East Asia, and into early historic Greece, India, and Ireland, and elsewhere across the world. These very similar female figures were depicted in Anatolia, Europe, Southern Asia, and East Asia, in a broad chronological sweep, beginning with the pre-pottery Neolithic, ca. 9000 BCE, and existing from the beginning of the second millennium of this era up to the present era. This book demonstrates the extraordinary similarities, in a broad geographic range, of depictions and descriptions of magical female figures who give fertility and strength to the peoples of their cultures by means of their magical erotic powers. This book uniquely contains translations of texts which describe these ancient female figures, from a multitude of Indo-European, Near Eastern, and East Asian works, a feat only possible given the authors' formidable combined linguistic expertise in over thirty languages. The book contains many photographs of these geographically different, but functionally and artistically similar, female figures. Many current books (academic and otherwise) explore some of the female figures the authors discuss in their book, but such a wide-ranging cross-cultural and cross-temporal view of this genre of female figures has never been undertaken until now. The "sexual" display of these female figures reflects the huge numinosity of the prehistoric divine feminine, and of her magical genitalia. The functions of fertility and apotropaia, which count among the functions of the early historic display and dancing figures, grow out of this numinosity and reflect the belief in and honoring of the powers of the ancient divine feminine.
Author : Stuart A. Kauffman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458722066
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reinventing the Sacred written by Stuart A. Kauffman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...
Author : John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Tropology; or, a Brief view of the figures; and explication of the metaphors, contained in Scripture written by John BROWN (Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.) and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Aris Willmott
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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lives of Sacred Poets (containing a Biographical and Critical View of English Sacred Poetry, Etc.). Published Under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge written by Robert Aris Willmott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Clarke
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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature written by Adam Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John COLQUHOUN (D.D.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book A View of Saving Faith from the Sacred Records written by John COLQUHOUN (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Clarke
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature ... from the Invention of Alphabetical Characters to the Year of Our Lord 345 written by Adam Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristina Myrvold
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754669180
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Death of Sacred Texts written by Kristina Myrvold and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization processes when new technologies have made it possible to mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.
Author : Thomas Boston
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records written by Thomas Boston and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
