A Problem Of Presence
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A Problem Of Presence
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Author : Matthew Engelke
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-05-21
A Problem Of Presence written by Matthew Engelke 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 2007-05-21 with Social Science categories.
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A Problem Of Presence
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Author : Matthew Eric Engelke
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007
A Problem Of Presence written by Matthew Eric Engelke 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 2007 with Religion categories.
"Matthew Engelke has crafted a fascinating, insightful, and sensitive study of the ways in which the Friday Masowe attempt to achieve religious transcendence. Drawing thoughtfully on the findings of other researchers across a wide spectrum of sociological and theological contexts, A Problem of Presence makes a valuable contribution to the comparative study of Christianity, and to the anthropology of religion in general."--Webb Keane, author of Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter "In this impressive work, Engelke describes the Friday Masowe of Zimbabwe with real ethnographic sensitivity and adds wide resonance through authoritative and unpretentious theoretical elaboration. A Problem of Presence is a model of how to make an apparently oblique socio-cultural phenomenon illuminate very wide problems, without sacrificing ethnographic complexity and texture."--James Clifford, author of The Predicament of Culture "A beautifully written book. Engelke creates a new ethnographic field, that of biblical publicity, by following its ambitions in the high street, in politics, and in a Christian think-tank. He forces us--subtly but firmly--to rethink the location of religion in post-secular England and beyond."--Simon Coleman, University of Toronto
A Problem Of Presence
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Author : Matthew Engelke
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-05-21
A Problem Of Presence written by Matthew Engelke 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 2007-05-21 with Social Science categories.
The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don’t read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" from the Holy Spirit. In this insightful and sensitive historical ethnography, Matthew Engelke documents how this rejection of scripture speaks to longstanding concerns within Christianity over mediation and authority. The Bible, of course, has been a key medium through which Christians have recognized God’s presence. But the apostolics perceive scripture as an unnecessary, even dangerous, mediator. For them, the materiality of the Bible marks a distance from the divine and prohibits the realization of a live and direct faith. Situating the Masowe case within a broad comparative framework, Engelke shows how their rejection of textual authority poses a problem of presence—which is to say, how the religious subject defines, and claims to construct, a relationship with the spiritual world through the semiotic potentials of language, actions, and objects. Written in a lively and accessible style, A Problem of Presence makes important contributions to the anthropology of Christianity, the history of religions in Africa, semiotics, and material culture studies.
Modeling And Inverse Problems In The Presence Of Uncertainty
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Author : H. T. Banks
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Modeling And Inverse Problems In The Presence Of Uncertainty written by H. T. Banks and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Mathematics categories.
Modeling and Inverse Problems in the Presence of Uncertainty collects recent research-including the authors' own substantial projects-on uncertainty propagation and quantification. It covers two sources of uncertainty: where uncertainty is present primarily due to measurement errors and where uncertainty is present due to the modeling formulation i
Christian Moderns
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Author : Webb Keane
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-01-03
Christian Moderns written by Webb Keane 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 2007-01-03 with Religion categories.
Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.
The Presence And Absence Of God
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Author : Ingolf U. Dalferth
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2009
The Presence And Absence Of God written by Ingolf U. Dalferth and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
Safeguarding the distinction between God and world has always been a basic interest of negative theology. But sometimes it has overemphasized divine transcendence in a way that made it difficult to account for the sense of God's present activity and experienced actuality. Criticisms of the Western metaphysics of presence have made this even more difficult to conceive. On the other hand, there has been a widespread attempt in recent years to base all theology on (religious) experience; the Christian church celebrates God's presence in its central sacraments of baptism and Eucharist; process thought has re-conceptualized God's presence in panentheistic terms; and some have argued that God might be poly-present, not omnipresent. But what does it mean to say that God is present or absent? For Jews, Christians, and Moslems alike God is not an inference, an absentee entity of which we can detect only faint traces in our world. On the contrary, God is present reality, indeed the most present of all realities. However, belief in God's presence cannot ignore the widespread experience of God's absence. Moreover, there is little sense in speaking of God's absence if it cannot be distinguished from God's non-presence or non-existence. So how are we to understand the sense of divine presence and absence in religious and everyday life? This is what the essays in this volume explore in the biblical traditions, in Jewish and Christian theology and philosophy, and in contemporary philosophy of religion.
Transforming Presence
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Author : Daniel Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Transforming Presence written by Daniel Henderson and has been published by Moody Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Religion categories.
Who is the Holy Spirit anyway? We sing songs about Him. We’ve seen His name in the Bible. And most of us know He’s a part of the Trinity, but misunderstandings, confusion, and contention abound. And it’s keeping us from the abundant, satisfying life God has for us. The solution? We need a biblical understanding of the Holy Spirit. Transforming Presence walks you through ten vital practices that will help you have a new experience of the Holy Spirit. You’ll learn how our relationship with the Holy Spirit changed from the Old Testament to the New Testament, what common misconceptions of the Holy Spirit are, and how to think, speak, (and sing) rightly about Him. It can be hard to discern what’s right and wrong in a world of gray scales, differing preferences, and emotional highs, but when we start with the Bible, all the secondary things fall into place. Discover the transformational, personal, and joyful relationship that comes from meeting the Holy Spirit on His own terms.
Divine Presence Amid Violence
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Author : Walter Brueggemann
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2009-02-11
Divine Presence Amid Violence written by Walter Brueggemann 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 2009-02-11 with Religion categories.
To pursue the matter of revelation in context, I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reason for taking up this text is to deal with the often asked and troublesome question: What shall we do with all the violence and bloody war that is done in the Old Testament in the name of Yahweh? The question reflects a sense that these texts of violence are at least an embarrassment, are morally repulsive, and are theologically problematic in the Bible, not because they are violent, but because this is violence either in the name of or at the hand of Yahweh. -from chapter 2
The Shattered Lantern
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Author : Ronald Rolheiser
language : en
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Release Date : 2004
The Shattered Lantern written by Ronald Rolheiser and has been published by Herder & Herder this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
This prequel and companion to The Holy Longing has sold over 40,000 copies in various editions.
In His Manifest Presence
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Author : George G. Jhagroo
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11
In His Manifest Presence written by George G. Jhagroo and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Religion categories.
What would you do if God appeared to you and asked you to fellowship and worship with Him every night for years to come? How would you react as He made His grand entrance into your bedroom to commence worship and fill it with His Glory? Join author George G. Jhagroo in In His Manifest Presence, his truly amazing biographical account of how he met and embraced the Manifest Presence of the Holy Ghost face to face, every midnight in his bedroom for years. Who was the Wind that blew apart the Red Sea for Moses, Who created the earth in six days, Who stood beside Daniel in the furnace, and Who sat upon the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant now stood in the similitude of a man in his bedroom, leading him in worship to our Father and to Jesus our King. He continues to do so even to this day. George G. Jhagroo has stumbled upon one of the greatest consequences of Calvary. He—who lived behind the veil of the Temple when it was torn in two from top to bottom at the passing of Jesus on the cross—was made accessible to all saints throughout the world and could no longer only be visited once a year on the Day of Atonement but on everyday and at anytime. For centuries, this resource has remained untapped, and God the Third Person of the Trinity, seeking fellowship on the earth has remained alone and lonely. Yet He is on the earth free to talk to, walk with, go shopping with, and fall in love with any believer who would want Him and invite Him in. In In His Manifest Presence, George did just that, and he shares this love story of his glorious experiences of worshiping with and fellowshipping with the Manifest Presence of God in the midst of His glorious power and unfailing love.