The Sacred Executioner
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The Sacred Executioner
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Author : Hyam Maccoby
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 1982-01-01
The Sacred Executioner written by Hyam Maccoby and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with History categories.
Looks at the nature and history of human sacrifice, examines the stories of Cain, Noah, and Abraham, and discusses the causes of anti-Semitism
The Sacred Executioner
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Author : Hyam Maccoby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Sacred Executioner written by Hyam Maccoby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Human sacrifice categories.
Sovereignty And The Sacred
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Author : Robert A. Yelle
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Sovereignty And The Sacred written by Robert A. Yelle and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Religion categories.
Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the sacred and the sovereign as creating “states of exception”—that is, moments of rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order, are capable of re-founding or remaking it—Robert A. Yelle identifies our secular, capitalist system as an attempt to exclude such moments by subordinating them to the calculability of laws and markets. The second step marshals evidence from history and anthropology that helps us to recognize the contribution of such states of exception to ethical life, as a means of release from the legal or economic order. Yelle draws on evidence from the Hebrew Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism. Developing this close analogy between two elemental domains of society, Sovereignty and the Sacred offers a new theory of religion while suggesting alternative ways of organizing our political and economic life. By rethinking the transcendent foundations and liberating potential of both religion and politics, Yelle points to more hopeful and ethical modes of collective life based on egalitarianism and popular sovereignty. Deliberately countering the narrowness of currently dominant economic, political, and legal theories, he demonstrates the potential of a revived history of religions to contribute to a rethinking of the foundations of our political and social order.
The Bible Violence And The Sacred
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Author : James G. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2007-10-01
The Bible Violence And The Sacred written by James G. Williams and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Religion categories.
This book represents the first comprehensive application to the whole Bible of RenŽ Girard's theories on violence, civilization, and religion.
The Executioner Of God
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Author : C. David Belt
language : en
Publisher: V&e Enterprises
Release Date : 2022-02-09
The Executioner Of God written by C. David Belt and has been published by V&e Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-09 with Fiction categories.
Through the mists of time, the last Templar and an Irish nun hunt an ancient, immortal evil. Tormond MacDonald, the last of the Templar Knights, was commissioned as Carnifex Dei, the Executioner of God, at Acre in the 13th century. His sacred mission - family, love, even his brother Templars - to fulfill his sacred vow, and he has pursued the enemy, a trio of witches, through the centuries. But always they elude him. Maebh O Broin, a 15th century nun, fleeing a different, undying evil, encounters the fearsome Executioner. They are thrown together by fate - or perhaps by Providence - and together, they travel the centuries. Every time they appear, they find a wrong to right, an evil to combat. But every time, the witches escape them. They run afoul of a demon, dealing a crippling blow to her malevolent designs. The demon plans her fiendish revenge upon Tormond and Maebh, and though it takes centuries . . . she will have them.
The Sacred And The Feminine
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Author : Griselda Pollock
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11-28
The Sacred And The Feminine written by Griselda Pollock and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-28 with Social Science categories.
The notion of a special intimacy between 'the feminine and the sacred' has received significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Cathérine Clément's famous ecumenical 'conversation' of the same name which focussed on the relationship between meaning and the body at whose interface the feminine is positioned. Brought to the wider public as the 'sacred feminine', it has also made its mark on popular culture. Taking up the debate and moving beyond anthropology or theology, writers from varied ethnic, geo-cultural and religious perspectives here join with secular cultural analysts to explore the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. The book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', exploring the ways in which visual practices have explored this rich, contested and highly charged territory.
The Highest Altar
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Author : Patrick Tierney
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 1990
The Highest Altar written by Patrick Tierney and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Religion categories.
An engrossing mixture of adventure, treacherous travel, satanic ritual, and anthropology, The Highest Altar illuminates the significance of human sacrifice in man's past and present. Full-color illustrations and maps.
The Changes Of Cain
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Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Changes Of Cain written by Ricardo J. Quinones and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank "Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review "Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--Choice Ricardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Judaism On Trial
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Author : Hyam Maccoby
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1984-10-01
Judaism On Trial written by Hyam Maccoby and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-10-01 with Religion categories.
'A superb work of committed scholarship . . . a work full of interest to those already familiar with the material it contains, and compelling reading for those who are not. Maccoby has done a fine job in recapturing the intellectual and social drama of the confrontations.' Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Journal of Sociology Hyam Maccoby's now classic study focuses on the major Jewish—Christian disputations of medieval Europe: those of Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14).
Elysium
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Author : John W. Wohlfarth
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2001-09-29
Elysium written by John W. Wohlfarth and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-29 with Religion and politics categories.
This book contains many descriptions, data and suggestions for making your Rumba, Salsa and related dancing more knowledgeable, easier and more fun.
