Making The Gods Speak
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Making The Gods Speak
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Author : Vincent Goossaert
language : en
Publisher: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Making The Gods Speak written by Vincent Goossaert and has been published by Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with categories.
Making the Gods Speak presents a comprehensive accounting for the processes of divine revelations. Focusing the bulk of his analysis on spirit-writing, Vincent Goossaert offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.
The Ancient Oracles
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Author : Richard Stoneman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Ancient Oracles written by Richard Stoneman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Divination categories.
For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation. It also examines how Greek oracles' practices were distinctive compared to those of their neighbors, especially in Egypt, Babylon, and Israel. Richard Stoneman weaves a fascinating historical tapestry, taking into account the different kinds of oracles (healers, advisors, prophets, and others), their most important sanctuaries, debates about them among ancient thinkers, and Christian attacks on them. Delving into the reasons behind the oracles' enduring position at the heart of Greek culture, Stoneman offers fresh insights into pagan religious practice and the history of Greek intellectual and spiritual life.
Making The Gods Speak
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Author : Vincent Goossaert
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-20
Making The Gods Speak written by Vincent Goossaert and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with History categories.
For two millennia, Chinese society has been producing divine revelations on an unparalleled scale, in multifarious genres and formats. This book is the first comprehensive attempt at accounting for the processes of such production. It builds a typology of the various ritual techniques used to make gods present and allow them to speak or write, and it follows the historical development of these types and the revealed teachings they made possible. Within the large array of visionary, mediumistic, and mystical techniques, Vincent Goossaert devotes the bulk of his analysis to spirit-writing, a family of rites that appeared around the eleventh century and gradually came to account for the largest numbers of books and tracts ascribed to the gods. In doing so, he shows that the practice of spirit-writing must be placed within the framework of techniques used by ritual specialists to control human communications with gods and spirits for healing, divining, and self-divinization, among other purposes. Making the Gods Speak thus offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.
The Dumb Gods Speak
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Author : Edward Phillips Oppenheim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Dumb Gods Speak written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Making The Heavens Speak
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Author : Peter Sloterdijk
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-01-05
Making The Heavens Speak written by Peter Sloterdijk and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-05 with Philosophy categories.
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city. Sloterdijk argues that, as with the culture of the Ancient Greeks, all religions inscribe a kind of “theopoetry” at the heart of their cultural life and thought, even as they strenuously obscure these poetic origins through the cultivation and enforcement of orthodox norms. Sloterdijk also shows how, in conditions of religious pluralism, religions poetically reshape themselves to accommodate the demands of the religious marketplace. This highly original study of the poetic devices that inform accounts of the otherworldly offers a new interpretation of religious practice and its theological elaboration through history, as well as a fresh perspective on our contemporary age in which collective life, interwoven with imaginative fabrications, is fraying under critical stress.
The Dumb Gods Speak
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Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-11-22
The Dumb Gods Speak written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with Fiction categories.
This is a spy thriller novel that revolves around the marvelous invention Mark Humberstone bequeaths to a Council of Seven, an espionage organization run by Mark Humberstone and a man called Cheng. This invention is to be used in the service of peace. The organization plans to turn China and Russia into constitutional monarchies, thus making them strong and stable factors for peace. With that, and the demonstration of the full power of the Humberstone devices, war will be impossible. Much rumor swirls around the agency, and the person who calls himself Mr. Jonson has come to join the organization as a hitman. Will Mr. Jonson be loyal to the organization?
Communicating With The Gods
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Author : Matthias Schumann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-10-09
Communicating With The Gods written by Matthias Schumann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-09 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form an essential corpus, widely venerated and recited to this day, that is still largely untapped by research. Using historical and ethnographic approaches, this volume for the first time offers a comprehensive overview of the history of spirit-writing, examining its evolution over a millennium, the practices and technologies used, and the communities involved.
Machines For Making Gods
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Author : Jon Bialecki
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Machines For Making Gods written by Jon Bialecki and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with Religion categories.
The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside one another, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement. Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world. The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism’s promise of theosis through imminent technological advances. Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to reimagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and promise of undergoing theosis—of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism’s relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes. Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy. The book also reveals how the MTA’s speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West. A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth.
Hearing God
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Author : Dallas Willard
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Hearing God written by Dallas Willard and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Religion categories.
How do we hear God's voice? How can we be sure that what we hear is not our own subconscious? What if what God says to us is not clear? In this Signature Collection edition of a beloved classic, bestselling author Dallas Willard offers rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom.
The Spirit Of God Speaking In The Temple Of God Or Gods Spiritual Teachings In His People Puts Flesh To Silence That The Spirit Of Christ May Speak In The Church Etc
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Author : Richard Farnworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1663
The Spirit Of God Speaking In The Temple Of God Or Gods Spiritual Teachings In His People Puts Flesh To Silence That The Spirit Of Christ May Speak In The Church Etc written by Richard Farnworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1663 with categories.