A Matrix Of Meanings


A Matrix Of Meanings
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Download A Matrix Of Meanings PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get A Matrix Of Meanings book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page





A Matrix Of Meanings


A Matrix Of Meanings
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Craig Detweiler
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2003-11

A Matrix Of Meanings written by Craig Detweiler and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Religion categories.


A lighthearted analysis of modern pop culture considers what lessons can be learned from today's movies, music, television, and more, exploring how its popularity and successes reflects today's society. Original.



A Matrix Of Meanings Engaging Culture


A Matrix Of Meanings Engaging Culture
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Craig Detweiler
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2003-11-01

A Matrix Of Meanings Engaging Culture written by Craig Detweiler and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with Religion categories.


Ross and Rachel had a baby, Britney and Justin broke up, and Time magazine asked if Bono could save the world. From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they say about the world in which we live? Rather than deciding whether Bono deserves our admiration, the authors examine the phenomenon of celebrity idolization. Instead of deciding whether Nike's "Just do it" campaign is morally questionable, they ask what its success reflects about our society. A Matrix of Meanings is a hip, entertaining guide to the maze of popular culture. Plentiful photos, artwork, and humorous sidebars make for delightful reading. Readers who distrust popular culture as well as those who love it will find useful insight into developing a Christian worldview in a secular culture.



Signs Of The Times


Signs Of The Times
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

Signs Of The Times written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.




Pop Goes The Church


Pop Goes The Church
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Tim Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Power Publishing
Release Date : 2008

Pop Goes The Church written by Tim Stevens and has been published by Power Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.


Whether you're a regular attender, a leader, or have yet to step foot in a church, you may have questions about church that aren't being answered. How can the church remain relevant while communicating the unchanging integrity of God's truth? Author Tim Stevens makes an inspiring case for leveraging pop culture to reach out to people in the language of their lives. He offers a new perspective that gives relevance and impact to the church by using pop culture, meeting people in the real world with words, sounds and images that speak to them. He encourages us to get out of our comfort zones and look people in the eyes, meeting them wherever they are, relating to their problems and society's challenges, even celebrating pop culture, where there are exciting signs of spiritual seeking. Pop Goes the Church will open your mind to church in a way that breaks down walls, engages the culture and speaks to a generation that needs to hear good news.



Hospitality Of The Matrix


Hospitality Of The Matrix
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Irina Aristarkhova
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012

Hospitality Of The Matrix written by Irina Aristarkhova and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Birth (Philosophy) categories.


This book analyzes the question "where do we come from?" by discussing the matrix. The author then applies this to the science technology, and art of ectogenesis, and proves the question "can the machine nurse?"



Sixguns And Society


Sixguns And Society
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Will Wright
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28

Sixguns And Society written by Will Wright and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Performing Arts categories.


From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consciousness and society. If a myth is popular, it must somehow appeal to or reinforce the individuals who view it by communicating a symbolic meaning to them. This meaning must, in turn, reflect the particular social institutions and attitudes that have created and continue to nourish the myth. Thus, a myth must tell its viewers about themselves and their society. This study, which takes up the question of the Western as an American myth, will lead us into abstract structural theory as well as economic and political history. Mostly, however, it will take us into the movies, the spectacular and not-so-spectacular sagebrush of the cinema. Unlike most works of social science, the data on which my analysis is based is available to all of my readers, either at the local theater or, more likely, on the late, late show. I hope you will take the opportunity, whenever it is offered, to check my findings and test my interpretations; the effort is small and the rewards are many. And if your wife, husband, mother, or child asks you why you are wasting your time staring at Westerns on TV in the middle of the night, tell them firmly—as I often did—that you are doing research in social science.



Identity Ritual And State In Tibetan Buddhism


Identity Ritual And State In Tibetan Buddhism
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Martin A. Mills
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003

Identity Ritual And State In Tibetan Buddhism written by Martin A. Mills and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.


This is a major anthropological study of contemporary Tibetan Buddhist monasticism and tantric ritual in Ladakh, and of the role of tantric ritual in traditional forms of state structure and political consciousness in Tibet.



Halos And Avatars


Halos And Avatars
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Craig Detweiler
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2010-01-25

Halos And Avatars written by Craig Detweiler and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-25 with Religion categories.


Craig Detweiler's collection of up-to-the-minute essays on video games' theological themes (and yes, they do exist!) is an engaging and provocative book for gamers, parents, pastors, media scholars, and theologians--virtually anyone who has dared to consider the ramifications of modern society's obsession with video games and online media. Together, these essays take on an exploding genre in popular culture and interpret it through a refreshing and enlightening philosophical lens.



In Search Of The Primitive


In Search Of The Primitive
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Stanley Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-06-21

In Search Of The Primitive written by Stanley Diamond and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-21 with Social Science categories.


Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of law, schizophrenia and civilization, and the evolution of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Above all it is reflective and self-critical, critical of the discipline of anthropology and of the civilization that produced that discipline. Diamond views the anthropologist who refuses to become a searching critic of his own civilizations as not merely irresponsible, but a tool of Western civilization. He rejects the associations which have been made in the ideology of our civilization, consciously or unconsciously, between Western dominance and progress, imperialism and evolution, evolution and progress.



God S Autopsy And The Living Truth Of Soul


God S Autopsy And The Living Truth Of Soul
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Hal Childs
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-08-22

God S Autopsy And The Living Truth Of Soul written by Hal Childs and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Philosophy categories.


The Grand Narrative of Christianity that the Bible created is dead, and the Bible is silent. Does the Bible have anything relevant to say to our modern circumstances? We ask, where did God come from? What happened to God? God’s Autopsy reinterprets soul and God as historical-psychological phenomena related to the cultural structure of consciousness, the invisible shared context of thought, which has changed dramatically over the past three millennia. This book offers a new way to understand the trajectory of Western civilization by making the implicit foundation of Western consciousness—soul—visible and conscious. Our modern Western consciousness is radically different from that of antiquity when the Bible emerged. Jung’s psychological-philosophical insight that whenever we speak about the psyche it is the psyche speaking about itself, leads to the realization that today consciousness has come home to itself. Beginning with preliterate polytheism, the emergence of the transcendent god Yahweh and Christ, which led directly to the Enlightenment, objective soul continues to unfold itself. How did late modernity become a topsy-turvy, quantum, virtual, digital, impersonal, and abstract world that appears to be running away from us? The answer is unexpectedly and shockingly in the Bible itself.