God S Gangs
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God S Gangsters
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Author : Heather Parker Lewis
language : af
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-01-01
God S Gangsters written by Heather Parker Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Gangs categories.
The number Gangs in South Africa's prisons are living legends and unique when compared with other prison gangs across the globe.
God S Gangs
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Author : Edward Flores
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014
God S Gangs written by Edward Flores and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Religion categories.
Winner, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles’ eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginality—for a Latino immigrant population struggling with poverty and social integration, gangs offer a close-knit community. Yet, as Edward Orozco Flores argues in God’s Gangs, gang members can be successfully redirected out of gangs through efforts that change the context in which they find themselves, as well as their notions of what it means to be a man. Flores here illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Homeboy Industries, a Jesuit-founded non-profit that is one of the largest gang intervention programs in the country, and with Victory Outreach, a Pentecostal ministry with over 600 chapters, Flores demonstrates that organizations such as these facilitate recovery from gang life by enabling gang members to reinvent themselves as family men and as members of their community. The book offers a window into the process of redefining masculinity. As Flores convincingly shows, gang members are not trapped in a cycle of poverty and marginality. With the help of urban ministries, such men construct a reformed barrio masculinity to distance themselves from gang life.
God Loves Gangs
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Author : Ouida D. Sauls
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2011-08-31
God Loves Gangs written by Ouida D. Sauls and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Mary put her briefcase on the floor beside her as she looked out of the window of the train. Another passenger (Randall) put an identical briefcase on the rack above the seat across from where Mary and her daughters were sleeping. Then the man rushed off to the restroom. The train made a jerking motion as it took off and Randall’s briefcase fell to the floor across where Mary was sitting. Mary’s briefcase moved further down. Mary heard the noise and turned to notice the briefcase next to her and picked it up and placed it between the seats next to her. “That was quite a jolt,” Mary said as she picked up the briefcase not knowing it wasn’t hers. When Randall, a drug dealer returned to his seat, he panicked until he saw a briefcase two seats back. Randall’s briefcase now has a Bible and notebook and Mary’s briefcase is now filled with seven million dollars.
Gangster To God
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Author : Timothy Rau
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2021-01-08
Gangster To God written by Timothy Rau and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-08 with Religion categories.
Gangster to God is an incredible true life story and testimony of Love and Grace, filled with incredible miracles only God could have set in motion. After enduring years of tragedy, drug addiction and finally a life sentence in prison, suicide seemed the only option for this man when God intervened and through overwhelming odds, his life was turned around and completely changed forever by The Love Of Jesus Christ.
Cities Of Lonesome Fear
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Author : Gordon R. McLean
language : en
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Cities Of Lonesome Fear written by Gordon R. McLean and has been published by Moody Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
Godon McLean tells how gang members have been changed through the truths of Jesus Christ and the impact of Christ's love. From the rough barrios of L.A. to the war zone of Chicago's West Side, McLean carried God's message to whoever would listen.
God S Gangsters
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Author : Xavier Killeen
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-16
God S Gangsters written by Xavier Killeen and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Fiction categories.
Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes. (Jung) Gods Gangsters Is a short story of 13,500 words that takes place over a three day period, in the life of a sixteen year old African American drug dealer and gang member, Walter Butz. Walter was raised by very religious parents, who believe in a literal translation of the Bible. This narrow religious view completely turns him off to any belief in God. After the death of his father, a clergyman, he falls in with his brother-in-law, a gang leader and drug dealer in Brooklyn. It is after being shot by rival gang members; the young Walter is wounded, and begins a Journey or realization that there is a deeper side to being human, a spiritual side. With the help of a few guldes along the way, he is able to alter his perception of reality, and in this truer light, change his life. Imagination is more important than knowledge, is a quote from Albert Einstein. Considered a cerebrell, logical, calculating, conscous intellect, there was also another side to his thinking. The feeling, instinctive, intuitive subconscious, the source of a higher consciousness. This is a story of rediscovery of a greater self; we are all part of.
Gangsters For God
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Author : Deon Joseph Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Gangsters For God written by Deon Joseph Johnson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with categories.
This is a book of inspiration & motivation, about incarcerated men that lost their way & identity to gangs, and all the other snares of the devil. By the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These same men have been called and saved by God while in prison and now are being trained as soldiers in the army of God to fight against the wiles of the devil, that they may seek and save that which are lost through the blood of Christ and the word of their testimony...... There is a better way and through the testimonies of these incarcerated men that are now living free, full of life, peace, joy and love. You also can be released by accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, change the devil's lie that we're believed our whole life into the truth of GOD's word and experience this life changing phenomenon.....
Gods Ghosts And Gangsters
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Author : Avron Boretz
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2010-10-31
Gods Ghosts And Gangsters written by Avron Boretz and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with History categories.
Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martial arts. The long and durable history of martial arts iconography and ritual in Chinese religion suggests something far deeper than mere historical coincidence. Avron Boretz argues that martial arts gestures and movements are so deeply embedded in the ritual repertoire in part because they iconify masculine qualities of violence, aggressivity, and physical prowess, the implicit core of Chinese patriliny and patriarchy. At the same time, for actors and audience alike, martial arts gestures evoke the mythos of the jianghu, a shadowy, often violent realm of vagabonds, outlaws, and masters of martial and magic arts. Through the direct bodily practice of martial arts movement and creative rendering of jianghu narratives, martial ritual practitioners are able to identify and represent themselves, however briefly and incompletely, as men of prowess, a reward otherwise denied those confined to the lower limits of this deeply patriarchal society. Based on fieldwork in China and Taiwan spanning nearly two decades, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters offers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselves—mostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangs—convincingly link martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society. This work is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese ritual and religion, the history and sociology of Chinese underworld, the history and anthropology of the martial arts, and the anthropology of masculinity.
Homies And Hermanos
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Author : Robert Brenneman
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012
Homies And Hermanos written by Robert Brenneman and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Religion categories.
Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it.
God S Gangs
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Author : Edward Flores
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014
God S Gangs written by Edward Flores and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Religion categories.
Winner, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles’ eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginality—for a Latino immigrant population struggling with poverty and social integration, gangs offer a close-knit community. Yet, as Edward Orozco Flores argues in God’s Gangs, gang members can be successfully redirected out of gangs through efforts that change the context in which they find themselves, as well as their notions of what it means to be a man. Flores here illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Homeboy Industries, a Jesuit-founded non-profit that is one of the largest gang intervention programs in the country, and with Victory Outreach, a Pentecostal ministry with over 600 chapters, Flores demonstrates that organizations such as these facilitate recovery from gang life by enabling gang members to reinvent themselves as family men and as members of their community. The book offers a window into the process of redefining masculinity. As Flores convincingly shows, gang members are not trapped in a cycle of poverty and marginality. With the help of urban ministries, such men construct a reformed barrio masculinity to distance themselves from gang life.