The Aztec Heresy

Author : Paul Christopher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144063582X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Heresy written by Paul Christopher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient secret. A lost city. A treasure that could change the world. In search of a Spanish galleon in the Caribbean, archaeologist Finn Ryan and her partner Lord Billy Pilgrim find evidence of a lost Aztec Codex. The invaluable book created by 15th-century explorer and accused heretic Hernan Cortez is said to reveal the secret location of the lost City of Gold. But they are not alone in their quest. Also on the trail is the head of a menacing religious cadre who'd kill to get it first, and a sociopathic billionaire with his own sinister motives. But while running for their lives, Finn and Billy come upon a more explosive secret that will take them from the Yucatan jungles to the Sonoran Desert, where the stakes are life and death.

Author : William Caper
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 145090713X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztec written by William Caper and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztec were fierce warriors. Hundreds of years ago, they ruled in Mexico. Their capital city gleamed in the sun. Their temples reached toward the sky. Learn about these powerful people who turned an island into an empire.

Author : Gregory Erickson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110556820
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Heresy written by Gregory Erickson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it demonstrates how heresy operates as an artistic stimulant. Rather than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765392178
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec written by Gary Jennings and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Vítor Westhelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621890457
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Heresy written by Vítor Westhelle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important contribution to post-colonial theological studies, the argument is made that religious practices and teachings imposed on colonized peoples are transmuted in the process of colonization. The very theological discourse that is foisted on the colonized people becomes for them, a liberating possibility through a process of theological transformation from within. This is offered as an explanation of the mechanisms which have brought about the emergence of the current post-colonial consciousness. However, what is distinctive and unique about this treatment is that it pursues these questions with two basic assumptions. The first is that the religious expressions of colonized people bear the outward marks of the hegemonic theological discourse imposed on them, but change its content through a process called "transfiguration." The second is that the crises of Western Christianity since the Reformation and the Conquest of the Americas enunciates the very process through which post-colonial religious hybridity is made possible. This book unfolds in three parts. The first (the "pre-text") deals with the colonial practice of the missionary enterprise using Latin America as a case study. The second (the "text") presents the crisis of Western modernity as interpreted by insiders and outsiders of the modern project. The third (the "con-text") analyses some discursive post-colonial practices that are theologically grounded even when used in discourses that are not religious. Some of the questions that this project engages are: Is there a post-colonial understanding of sin and evil? How can we understand eschatology in post-colonial terms? What does it mean to be the church in a post-colonial framework? For those interested in the intersection of theology and post-colonial studies, this book will be important reading.

Author : Jacques Soustelle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486424859
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.

Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of the Aztecs written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Keen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813515724
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztec Image in Western Thought written by Benjamin Keen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompass the sweep of changing Western thought on the Aztecs from Cortes to the present.

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807046432
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Sacrifice written by David Carrasco and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.

Author : Simon G. Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779376
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psilocybin Solution written by Simon G. Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life • Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin experience • Explains how sacred mushrooms help restore our connection to the natural intelligence of Nature • Reviews the research on psilocybin’s ability to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive disorder It has been more than 50 years since sacred mushrooms were plucked from the shamanic backwaters of Mexico and presented to the modern world by R. Gordon Wasson. After sparking the psychedelic era of the 1960s, however, the divine mushroom returned underground from whence it mysteriously originated. Yet today, the mushroom’s extraordinary influence is once again being felt by large numbers of people, due to the discovery of hundreds of wild psilocybin species growing across the globe. In The Psilocybin Solution, Simon G. Powell traces the history of the sacred psilocybin mushroom and discusses the shamanic visionary effects it can induce. Detailing how psilocybin acts as a profound enhancer of consciousness and reviewing the research performed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Johns Hopkins University, and the Heffter Research Institute on psilocybin’s ability to dispel anxiety in the terminally ill and its helpful effects on obsessive-compulsive disorder, he examines the neurochemistry, psychology, and spirituality underlying the visionary psilocybin experience, revealing the interface where physical brain and conscious mind meet. Showing that the existence of life and the functioning of mind are the result of a naturally intelligent, self-organizing Universe, he explains how sacred mushrooms provide a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life.