Spirit Wrestlers

Author : Thomas W. Shapcott
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546455
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wrestlers written by Thomas W. Shapcott and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Wrestlers is a haunting, poetic novel by one of Australia's finest writers. It tells of the arrival in rural Australia of a cult religious group and of the effect the group's mysterious, closed existence has on surrounding communities and individual lives. Two teenagers, Johann and Ivan, the local and the newcomer, discover things in common, and differences. A decade on, Johann is involved in the Vietnam War, and Ivan has escaped into the corruption of city life. Their reunion forms the climax of the novel, a parallel to the Biblical story of Jacob wrestling the Angel. And then there is Olga, Ivan's young sister, who is now grown up. A novel about faith, and competing faiths, acts of terror and acts of peace, Spirit Wrestlers speaks straight to the heart about our unsettled, dangerous world.

Author : Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823635
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit wrestlers written by Robert B. Klymasz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centenary of Doukhobor settlement in Canada (1899-1999) marks a unique chapter in the story of this country and its peoples. Twenty-six contributors from Canada, Russia, Japan and the United States offer important insights into the legacy of the Doukhobors with discussions on Doukhobor philosophy and spirituality, song traditions and history to aspects of material culture—textile arts, dress and furnishings—and museological concerns.

Author : Grigoriǐ Vasil’evich Verigin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030185257
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada written by Grigoriǐ Vasil’evich Verigin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers. The book is a translation into English of the Russian original authored by Grigoriǐ Verigin, published in 1935. The book’s narrative starts with the consolidation of Doukhobor beliefs inspired by the most famous Doukhobor leader, Pëtr Verigin. It describes the arrival of Doukhobors in Canada, their agricultural and industrial accomplishments in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and the clashes and misunderstandings between Doukhobors and the Canadian government. The narrative closes in 1924, with the scenes of Pëtr Verigin’s death in a yet unresolved railway car bombing, and of his funeral. The author emphasizes the most crucial component of Doukhobor beliefs: their pacifism and unequivocal rejection of wars and military conflicts. The book highlights other aspects of Doukhobor beliefs as well, including global community, brotherhood and equality of all the people on earth, kind treatment of animals, vegetarianism, as well as abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. It also calls for social justice, tolerance, and diversity.

Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit-wrestlers written by Philip Marsden and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a 'spirit-wrestler', a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a village beyond the southern steppe, at the far south of the old Russian empire: 'I was born here, ' he says. 'On the edge of the world.' So begins Philip Marsden's Russian journey - perhaps the most penetrating account of Russian life since the Soviet Union's collapse made travel possible again. In villages unseen by outsiders since before the revolution, he encounters men and women of fabulous courage, larger than life, dazed by the century's turbulence. By turns wise, devout, comic, they seem to have stepped straight from the pages of Turgenev, Gogol and Babel. Marsden meets such figures as the Yezidi Sheikh of Sheikhs, an exiled Georgian prince and a cast of passionate scholars, stooping survivors of the gulags, strutting Cossacks and extreme, isolated sects of Milk-Drinkers and Spirit-Wrestlers. The Spirit-Wrestlers peels away the grey facade of post-Soviet Russia and reveals a people as committed as ever to answering that great Tolstoyan question: how a man should live. Even more than in The Bronski House and The Crossing Place, Philip Marsden shows that behind the horrors of the Soviet years the human spirit remained triumphant. In so doing, he shows himself to be one of the most exciting and original travel writers of his generation.

Author : Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
ISBN 13 : 9780660140346
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wrestlers written by Koozma J. Tarasoff and published by Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centenary of Doukhobor settlement in Canada (1899-1999) marks a unique chapter in the story of this country and its peoples. In Spirit Wrestlers, twenty-six contributors from Canada, Russia, Japan, and the United States offer important insights into the legacy of the Doukhobors. The discussion ranges from Doukhobor philosophy and spirituality, song traditions, and history, to aspects of material culture - textile arts, dress, and furnishings - and museological concerns. Two submissions highlight findings of archival and bibliographical relevance. With its illustrations of Doukhobor artifacts from the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the book provides a useful survey of the Doukhobor experience.

Author : Koozma J. Tarasoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Wrestlers written by Koozma J. Tarasoff and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1178 pages
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Download or read book Friends' Intelligencer and Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book The Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1104 pages
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Download or read book Friends' Weekly Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 778 pages
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