Sacred Justice

Author : Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492187
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Justice written by Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims' narratives—the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

Author : Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412855446
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Justice written by Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots. Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author’s grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis. Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims’ narratives—the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

Author : Eric Bogosian
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031629201X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Nemesis written by Eric Bogosian and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper editor, an engineering student, and a diplomat. Together they formed one of the most effective assassination squads in history. They named their operation Nemesis, after the Greek goddess of retribution. The assassins were survivors, men defined by the massive tragedy that had devastated their people. With operatives on three continents, the Nemesis team killed six major Turkish leaders in Berlin, Constantinople, Tiflis, and Rome, only to disband and suddenly disappear. The story of this secret operation has never been fully told, until now. Eric Bogosian goes beyond simply telling the story of this cadre of Armenian assassins by setting the killings in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history, as well as showing in vivid color the era's history, rife with political fighting and massacres. Casting fresh light on one of the great crimes of the twentieth century and one of history's most remarkable acts of vengeance, Bogosian draws upon years of research and newly uncovered evidence. Operation Nemesis is the result--both a riveting read and a profound examination of evil, revenge, and the costs of violence.

Author : Lydia Cabrera
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829476
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Language of the Abakuá written by Lydia Cabrera and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.

Author : David Goddard
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877288626
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Magic of the Angels written by David Goddard and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity shares a universal belief in the existence of spiritual guides and messengers. This book mixes esoterica and practical information to teach the reader to contact and benefit from angels in their life. It empowers readers with the knowledge to deal with health, employment and home.

Author : Elisabetta Brighi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628925973
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred and the Political written by Elisabetta Brighi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by René Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'.

Author : EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ARCANA CCELESTIA: OR HEAVENLY MYSTERIES CONTAINED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES, OR WORD OF THE LORD, MANIFESTED AND LAID OPEN: BEGINNING WITH THE BOOK OF GENESIS INTERSPERSED IN THE WORLD OF SPIRITS AND THE THE HEAVEN OF ANGELS. written by EMANUEL SWEDENBORG and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tertullian
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849680045
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 1 written by Tertullian and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. This is volume one out of two and containing the following writings: The Apology, On Idolatry, De Spectaculis, De Corona, Ad Nationes, The Soul's Testimony, A Treatise on the Soul, The Five Books Against Marcion and many more.

Author : Baber Johansen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004106031
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingency in a Sacred Law written by Baber Johansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focus on the way in which Muslim scholars of the Hanafite school of Muslim law, from the 10th-12th centuries, adapted their legal norms to changing circumstances and distinguished between legal and ethical norms, religious and legal status, legal propositions and religious judgment. The introduction links this debate to the sociology of law and spells out the distinction between theology and law in Islam.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755757
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and the Sacred written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this book were originally prepared for ... during the 2001-2002 academic year."--Acknowledgments.