Divine Demonic And Disordered
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Divine Demonic And Disordered
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Author : Hsiao-wen Cheng
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2021-01-31
Divine Demonic And Disordered written by Hsiao-wen Cheng and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-31 with History categories.
Female chastity stirs trouble in medieval China A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women’s bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity. In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered, Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of “manless women,” many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Cheng questions conventional binary gender analyses and shifts attention away from women’s reproductive bodies and familial roles. Her innovative study offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women’s behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy.
Hearing Voices Demonic And Divine
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Author : Christopher C. H. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-07
Hearing Voices Demonic And Divine written by Christopher C. H. Cook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-07 with Religion categories.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.
The Divine Demonic Seven And The Place Of Demons In Mesopotamia
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Author : Gina Konstantopoulos
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-06-12
The Divine Demonic Seven And The Place Of Demons In Mesopotamia written by Gina Konstantopoulos and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-12 with Religion categories.
In The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia, Gina Konstantopoulos analyses the Sebettu, a group of seven divine/demonic figures found across a wide range of textual and artistic sources in Mesopotamia from the late third to first millennium BCE. The Sebettu appeared both as fierce, threatening demons and as divine, protective, figures. These seemingly contradictory qualities worked together, as their martial ferocity facilitated their religious and political role. When used in royal inscriptions, they became fierce warriors attacking the king’s enemies, retaining that demonic nature. This flexibility was not unique to the Sebettu, and this study thus provides a lens through which to examine the place of demons in Mesopotamia as a whole.
Thinking With Demons
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Author : Stuart Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Thinking With Demons written by Stuart Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This is a work of fundamental importance for our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. Stuart Clark offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally with many other views current in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Clark is the first to explore the appeal of demonology to early modern intellectuals by looking at the books they published on the subject during this period. After examining the linguistic foundations of their writings, the author shows how the writers' ideas about witchcraft (and about magic) complemented their other intellectual commitments--in particular, their conceptions of nature, history, religion, and politics. The result is much more than a history of demonology. It is a survey of wider intellectual and ideological purposes, and underlines just how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
A Celebration Of Demons
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Author : Bruce Kapferer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-07
A Celebration Of Demons written by Bruce Kapferer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Philosophy categories.
The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general.
The Cambridge World History Of Sexualities Volume 2 Systems Of Thought And Belief
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Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
The Cambridge World History Of Sexualities Volume 2 Systems Of Thought And Belief written by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with History categories.
Volume II focuses on systems of thought and belief in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary approaches. Comprising eighteen chapters, this volume opens with a chapter on the evolutionary legacy and then delves into the sexualities of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome, continuing with pre-modern South Asia, China, and Japan, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Chapters include an examination of sexuality in the religious traditions of Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and also look at more recent approaches, including scientific sex, sexuality in socialism and Marxism, and the intersections between sexuality, feminism, and post-colonialism.
Discerning Spirits
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Author : Nancy Caciola
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-13
Discerning Spirits written by Nancy Caciola and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-13 with History categories.
Possessed behaviors -- Ciphers -- Fallen women and fallen angels -- Breath, heart, bowels -- Exorcizing demonic disorder -- Testing spirits in the effeminate age
Woman And The Demon
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Author : Nina Auerbach
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1982
Woman And The Demon written by Nina Auerbach and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analyzes the Victorian conception of both demonic and divine nature of women in Victorian art and literature.
Multiple Personality Disorder Psychological Or Demonic
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Author : Phillip Spencer Morris
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2008-09
Multiple Personality Disorder Psychological Or Demonic written by Phillip Spencer Morris and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Psychology categories.
Are you suffering with emotional or psychological problems? Some are suffering with an identity crisis of enormous stature. Who am I? Why do I do the things I do? Why can't I remember my childhood? Where are these horrific nightmares and flashbacks coming from? When one suffers traumatic events, they may "check out" and develop another personality. You do not have to live this way. This Book Will Help You To: . Recognize the source of flashbacks and nightmares. . Understand how it is impossible for a born again Christian to be "possessed". . Discern how a spirit becomes the "strongman" in a person's life. . Recognize why one displays characteristics of two different people. . Explain what can happen when a demon invades and influences a person's mind. . Reveal the spiritual nature of MPD and how to address it spiritually. . Read others' experiences of deliverance and restoration. Phillip came to Houston in 1979 to attend Gulf Coast Bible College, graduated from Christian College of America with a degree in Psychology/Counseling, and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from Houston Graduate School of Theology. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Theology from Christian Bible College and Seminary. In 1982 God thrust Phillip into the deliverance ministry and called him to "establish the church" by "setting the captives free." Phillip founded Restoration House Church in 1992. His previous books include "Spiritual Connections to Personality Disorders," "Body Piercing," and "Walking Out Your Deliverance." Dr. Morris travels to teach and minister spiritual warfare and deliverance locally and internationally. You may contact him at Restoration House Church, 1609 Jones Road, Highlands, TX 77562, or www.restorationhousechurch.com. Phillip S. Morris is married, has four children and thirteen grandchildren. Phillip served two tours in Vietnam before accepting Jesus in 1976.
Malleable Anatomies
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Author : Lucia Dacome
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-26
Malleable Anatomies written by Lucia Dacome and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-26 with Medical categories.
Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the 'mania' for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, and traces the fashioning of anatomical models as important social, cultural, and political as well as medical tools. Over the course of the eighteenth century, anatomical specimens offered particularly accurate insights into the inner body. Being coloured, soft, malleable, and often life-size, they promised to foster anatomical knowledge for different audiences in a delightful way. But how did anatomical models and preparations inscribe and mediate bodily knowledge? How did they change the way in which anatomical knowledge was created and communicated? And how did they affect the lives of those involved in their production, display, viewing, and handling? Examining the circumstances surrounding the creation and early viewing of anatomical displays in Bologna and Naples, Malleable Anatomies addresses these questions by reconstructing how anatomical modelling developed at the intersection of medical discourse, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour display. While doing so, it investigates the development of anatomical modelling in the context of the diverse worlds of visual and material practices that characterized the representation and display of the body in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. Drawing attention to the artisanal dimension of anatomical practice, and to the role of women as both makers and users of anatomical models, it considers how anatomical specimens lay at the centre of a composite world of social interactions, which led to the fashioning of modellers as anatomical celebrities. Moreover, it examines how anatomical displays transformed the proverbially gruesome practice of anatomy into an enthralling experience that engaged audiences' senses.