The Book Of The Heathen
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Heathen
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Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-17
Heathen written by Kathryn Gin Lum 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 2022-05-17 with Religion categories.
An innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. If an eighteenth-century parson told you that the difference between “civilization and heathenism is sky-high and star-far,” the words would hardly come as a shock. But that statement was written by an American missionary in 1971. In a sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Purported heathens have also contributed to the ongoing significance of the concept, promoting solidarity through their opposition to white American Christianity. Gin Lum looks to figures like Chinese American activist Wong Chin Foo and Ihanktonwan Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá, who proudly claimed the label of “heathen” for themselves. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
The Book Of The Heathen
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Author : Robert Edric
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-04-24
The Book Of The Heathen written by Robert Edric and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Fiction categories.
1897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman awaits trial for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift gaol, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's official investigator, while his friend, James Frasier, attempts to determine the circumstances which surround the charge. The world around them is rapidly changing: the horrors of the Belgian Congo are becoming known and the flow of its once-fabulous wealth is drying up. Unrest flares unstoppably into violence. Frere's coming trial will seek to determine considerably more than the killing of a child. But at the heart of this conflict lies a secret so dark, so unimaginable, that one man must be willingly destroyed by his possession of it, and the other must both sanction and participate in that destruction. 'More disturbing even than Conrad in his depiction of the heart of darkness . . . it will be surprising if this year sees a more disturbing or haunting novel' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'Relentless . . . an impressive and disturbing work of art' Robert Nye, Literary Review 'Edric describes a compelling plot in fine, spare prose' David Isaacson, Daily Telegraph
Book Of Heathen
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Author : Go_i RavenSkŸl VenŒs
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-03-07
Book Of Heathen written by Go_i RavenSkŸl VenŒs and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with categories.
The Book of Heathen is a guide to Heathenism, Norse Paganism and Survival, I am keeping the faith alive in the name of my family and my ancestors. Word of O?inn. Sk?l.
The Holy Wild
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Author : Danielle Dulsky
language : en
Publisher: New World Library
Release Date : 2018-08-10
The Holy Wild written by Danielle Dulsky and has been published by New World Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-10 with Religion categories.
Ode to Our Wild Feminine Souls This provocative book invites you to create your own spiritual path based on often-suppressed ancient principles and contemporary practices. Using the elements (earth, water, fire, air, ether) rather than traditional patriarchal hierarchies, this 'holy book' is designed to connect each individual to their universal — but often denied — powers. Wild woman Danielle Dulsky takes you deep as she explores and embraces sacred feminine archetypes such as the Mother Goddess, the Crone, and the Maiden. Join her as she guides you to envision and explore a world that enriches and supports your spirit, body, and mind as well as our global community and the Earth.
The Gods Own County
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-14
The Gods Own County written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with categories.
A book of prayers, invocations, songs and rituals to the heathen Gods, Goddesses, wights and ancestors, written by members of Heathens of Yorkshire, and beautifully illustrated with original artwork. A useful resource for solitary practitioners, as well as groups looking for inspiration in putting together their own rituals.
Damned Nation
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Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Damned Nation written by Kathryn Gin Lum and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world. Kathryn Gin Lum poses a number of vital questions: Why did the fear of hell survive Enlightenment critiques in America, after largely subsiding in Europe and elsewhere? What were the consequences for early and antebellum Americans of living with the fear of seeing themselves and many people they knew eternally damned? How did they live under the weighty obligation to save as many souls as possible? What about those who rejected this sense of obligation and fear? Gin Lum shows that beneath early Americans' vaunted millennial optimism lurked a pervasive anxiety: that rather than being favored by God, they and their nation might be the object of divine wrath.
The Heathen World And The Duty Of The Church Classic Reprint
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Author : Alexander Robb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-07
The Heathen World And The Duty Of The Church Classic Reprint written by Alexander Robb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Heathen World and the Duty of the Church The following thoughts and appeals are meant for the consciences and hearts of Christians. If any of them be led to pray, to work, and to give more, that the gospel of the kingdom of heaven may soon be preached to every man, the Author's end will begained. He deems it unnecessary to apologize for thus urging his fellow-christians to attempt vastly greater tilings, that Jesus may possess all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. Were excuse needful, he would offer only this one, that, being on the eve of returning to the Coast of Guinea - spiritually one of the darkest, and to health one of the most unkindly, regions in the world - to labour with others in preaching Christ, he does not urge fallow-believers to make greater sacrifices for the glory of our Lord, than he himself is willing to make. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Heathen In His Blindness
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Author : S.N. Balagangadhara
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-14
The Heathen In His Blindness written by S.N. Balagangadhara and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Religion categories.
Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b) members from different cultures experience many aspects of the world differently; (c) the empirical and theoretical study of both culture and religion emerged within the West. The present study argues that these truisms have implications for the conceptualization of religion and culture. More specifically, the thesis is that non-western cultures and religions differ from the descriptions prevalent in the West, and it is also explained why this has been the case. The author proposes novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India, and the nature of cultural differences. Religion is important to the West because the constitution and the identity of western culture is tied to the dynamic of Christianity as a religion.
The Heathen School
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Author : John Demos
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-03-18
The Heathen School written by John Demos and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with History categories.
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and “civilization.” Its core element was a special school for “heathen youth” drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women, public resolve—and fundamental ideals—were put to a severe test. The Heathen School follows the progress, and the demise, of this first true melting pot through the lives of individual students: among them, Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian who ran away from home and worked as a seaman in the China Trade before ending up in New England; John Ridge, son of a powerful Cherokee chief and subsequently a leader in the process of Indian “removal”; and Elias Boudinot, editor of the first newspaper published by and for Native Americans. From its birth as a beacon of hope for universal “salvation,” the heathen school descends into bitter controversy, as American racial attitudes harden and intensify. Instead of encouraging reconciliation, the school exposes the limits of tolerance and sets off a chain of events that will culminate tragically in the Trail of Tears. In The Heathen School, John Demos marshals his deep empathy and feel for the textures of history to tell a moving story of families and communities—and to probe the very roots of American identity.
The Heathen World And The Duty Of The Church
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Author : Alexander Robb
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-10
The Heathen World And The Duty Of The Church written by Alexander Robb and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with categories.
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