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Author : Andrew O'Shea
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441118829
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selfhood and Sacrifice written by Andrew O'Shea and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Andrew O'Shea
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144110576X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selfhood and Sacrifice written by Andrew O'Shea and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.
Author : Margo Kitts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190656484
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-immolation written by Margo Kitts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition treated in this volume, from ascetic heroes who conquer their passions to save others by dying, to righteous warriors who suffer and die valiantly while challenging the status quo. At the same time, there are persistent disputes about the concepts used to justify these deaths, such as altruism, heroism, and religion itself. In this volume, renowned scholars bring their literary and historical expertise to bear on the contested issue of religiously sanctioned suicide. Three examine contemporary movements with disputed classical roots, while eleven look at classical religious literatures which variously laud and disparage figures who invite self-harm to the point of death. Overall, the volume offers an important scholarly corrective to the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost.
Author : Chul Woo Son
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625641605
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage written by Chul Woo Son and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans. With hierarchy of age, social status, and gender-defined roles taking primacy over equality and justice, self-sacrifice becomes instrumental in maintaining family and social relationships. Unfortunately, in family relationships, sacrifice has more to do with submission and endurance than it does with sacrificial service that is redemptive and mutually beneficial. When self-sacrifice carries hidden motives--coercive responsibility, obligation, shame, guilt, or one's reputation--that "self-sacrifice" is not self-giving, neither serving nor being of mutual benefit. In this context, it is important to explore the attitudes and motives of self-sacrifice in Korean American families. In unlocking and exploring the dynamics of the theology and practice of self-sacrifice for Korean Americans, this book explores cultural virtues, marital relationships, gender inequality, domestic violence, and their theological implications. The author introduces a new approach and model with a proposal for a healthier and a more judicious understanding of self-sacrifice for Korean American family relationships. The element of "equal regard" as pertaining to self-sacrifice offers Korean Americans a refreshing hope in the perspective of familial relationships and a liberating casting-off of culturally and religiously imposed burdens. The Korean American family ought to be grounded on a love ethic of equal regard and place its value on mutuality, self-sacrifice, and individual fulfillment. When this is done, sacrificial love can be understood as justly appropriated for both husbands and wives, males and females, and parents and children. Thus, Christian teaching and theology may deliver a more transparent message of true agape and its liberating effects for the marginalized, especially women and children.
Author : Julia Meszaros
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191634166
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacrifice and Modern Thought written by Julia Meszaros and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been controversial. The present book, which is the result of several years of interdisciplinary collaboration, suggests that in many ways the fascination with sacrifice has its roots in modernity itself. Theological developments following the Reformation, the rediscovery of Greek tragedies, and the encounter with the practice of human sacrifice in the Americas triggered a complex and passionate debate in the sixteenth century which has never since abated. Contributors to this volume, leading experts from theology, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies, describe and discuss how this modern fascination for the topic of sacrifice has evolved, how it has shaped theological debate, the literary imagination, and anthropological theory. Individual chapters discuss in depth major theological trajectories, theories of sacrifice including those of Marcel Mauss and René Girard, and current feminist criticism. They engage with sacrifice in the context of religious and philosophical thought, works of literature and film. They explore different yet overlapping aspects of modernity's obsession with sacrifice. The book does not intend to impose a single narrative over all these diverse contributions but brings them into a conversation around a common centre.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385489687
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : None
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by None and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1873 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Shulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349334
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions written by David Shulman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays--by such distinguished scholars as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel--study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Author : Various
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465571299
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christianity and Modern Thought written by Various and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old and New written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: College directory [giving the name, locality, course of study, faculty, and number of students, of 175 or more of the Principal collegiate institutions of the United States]. [Boston, Robert Bros. 1872-74]
