Fountain Of Fortune
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Fountain Of Fortune
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Author : Richard von Glahn
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-07-28
Fountain Of Fortune written by Richard von Glahn 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 2023-07-28 with History categories.
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity’s diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon but rather as an embodiment of greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion—as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn’s study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture. Surveying Chinese religion from 1000 BCE to the beginning of the twentieth century, The Sinister Way views the Wutong cult as by no means an aberration. In Von Glahn’s work we see how, from earliest times, the Chinese imagined an enchanted world populated by fiendish fairies and goblins, ancient stones and trees that spring suddenly to life, ghosts of the unshriven dead, and the blood-eating spirits of the mountains and forests. From earliest times, too, we find in Chinese religious culture an abiding tension between two fundamental orientations: on one hand, belief in the power of sacrifice and exorcism to win blessings and avert calamity through direct appeal to a multitude of gods; on the other, faith in an all-encompassing moral equilibrium inhering in the cosmos.
Poetical Quotations From Chaucer To Tennyson
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Poetical Quotations From Chaucer To Tennyson written by Samuel Austin Allibone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Quotations, English categories.
Hostile Money
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Author : Paul Wilson
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2019-05-23
Hostile Money written by Paul Wilson and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Money has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes at home and abroad. Germany's hyperinflation following the First World War has entered the public consciousness as an extreme example of what can happen to a currency in conflict. What is not widely known is that it is by no means the worst case of war-induced hyperinflation. Hostile Money looks at the impact of war and revolution on national currencies – from Rome's civil war in the first century BC to the twenty-first-century invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by American-led forces and the economic sanctions and cyberwarfare of today.
Money In Asia 1200 1900 Small Currencies In Social And Political Contexts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-01-27
Money In Asia 1200 1900 Small Currencies In Social And Political Contexts written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluation on various Asian economies and show how various regimes tried to manage these ever-present challenges. They reveal that those regimes that dealt most successfully with these two issues were those with an integrated national approach to monetary policy. Contributors are: Peter Bernholz, Werner Burger, Cao Jin, Mark Elvin, Dennis O. Flynn, Roger Greatrex, Najaf Haider, Reinier H. Hesselink, Elisabeth Kaske, Man-houng Lin, Jane Kate Leonard, Christine Moll-Murata, Keiko Nagase-Reimer, Shan Kunqin, Shimada Ryūto, Ulrich Theobald, Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Willem Wolters
Fountain Of Age
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Author : Betty Friedan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2006-08
Fountain Of Age written by Betty Friedan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Family & Relationships categories.
Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to offer a vision of what can be embraced.
Dictionary Of Illustrations Adapted To Christian Teaching Embracing Mythology Analogies Legends And Religious Anecdotes Etc
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Author : Elon Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Dictionary Of Illustrations Adapted To Christian Teaching Embracing Mythology Analogies Legends And Religious Anecdotes Etc written by Elon Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Anecdotes categories.
The Dictionary Of Illustrations Adapted To Christian Teaching
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Dictionary Of Illustrations Adapted To Christian Teaching written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Homiletical illustrations categories.
The Fountain Of Life Opened Up
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Author : John Flavel
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-11-06
The Fountain Of Life Opened Up written by John Flavel and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with categories.
Dear friends, my heart's desire and prayer to God for you is that you may be saved. O that I knew how to engage this whole town to Jesus Christ, and make fast the marriage-knot betwixt him and you, albeit after that I should presently go to the place of silence; and see men no more, with the inhabitants of the world. Ah sirs me thinks I see the Lord Jesus laying the merciful hand of a holy violence upon you: methinks he calls to you, as the angel to Lot saying, ""Arise, lest ye be consumed; And ""while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, the Lord being merciful unto him. And they brought him without the city, and said, Escape for thy life, stay not in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed,"" Gen. 19: 15. How often (to allude to this) has Jesus Christ in like manner laid hold upon you in the preaching of the gospel, and will you not flee for refuge to him? Will you rather be consumed, than to endeavour an escape?
Harry Potter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: PediaPress
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Harry Potter written by and has been published by PediaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
J K Rowling A Bibliography 1997 2013
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Author : Philip W. Errington
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-26
J K Rowling A Bibliography 1997 2013 written by Philip W. Errington and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Fiction categories.
'As someone who respects comprehensive research, I am in awe of the level of detail and amount of time Philip Errington has dedicated to this slavishly thorough and somewhat mind-boggling bibliography.' J. K. Rowling This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J. K. Rowling. In addition to complete bibliographic details of each edition of all her books, pamphlets and original contributions to published works, there is detailed information on the publishing history of her work, including fascinating extracts from correspondence, and information on Rowling at auction. This will be the first source on Rowling consulted by textual scholars, book dealers and collectors, auction houses, critics and researchers. The aim of the book is to record fact and dispel rumour on the fascinating publishing history of the Harry Potter series.