The Sex Lives Of Saints
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The Sex Lives Of Saints
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Author : Virginia Burrus
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03
The Sex Lives Of Saints written by Virginia Burrus and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with History categories.
Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula, The Sex Lives of Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference to the work of Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille, David Halperin and Geoffrey Harpham, Leo Bersani and Jean Baudrillard. Burrus subsequently proceeds through close, performative readings of the earliest Lives of Saints, mostly dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries—Jerome's Lives of Paul, Malchus, Hilarion, and Paula; Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina; Augustine's portrait of Monica; Sulpicius Severus's Life of Martin; and the slightly later Lives of so-called harlot saints. Queer, s/m, and postcolonial theories are among the contemporary discourses that prove intriguingly resonant with an ancient art of "saintly" loving that remains, in Burrus's reading, promisingly mobile, diverse, and open-ended.
Sex Lives Of The Popes
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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
language : en
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Release Date : 1996
Sex Lives Of The Popes written by Nigel Cawthorne and has been published by Trafalgar Square Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
An irreverent expose of the Bishops of Rome from St. Peter to the present day.
Living With Saints
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Author : Mary O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2003
Living With Saints written by Mary O'Connell and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
Praised for her "gift for mordant wit, which at its best is reminiscent of Lorrie Moore" ("The New York Times Book Review"), O'Connell draws upon the lives of the saints to show the divine at work in even the most mundane lives. Readers of all faiths (or none) will be delighted by these savvy and highly original modern visitations.
Trouble The Saints
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Author : Alaya Dawn Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date : 2020-07-21
Trouble The Saints written by Alaya Dawn Johnson and has been published by Tor Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD “Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a word: awesome.” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II. Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything—not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it’s too late—is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel—a magical love story, a compelling exposure of racial fault lines—and an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
And It Was Very Good
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Author : Earthly Parents
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-31
And It Was Very Good written by Earthly Parents and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-31 with Self-Help categories.
And It Was Very Good is the marital intimacy book written specifically for Latter-day Saints. "A practical, forthright guide to marital sexuality. And It Was Very Good offers important sex education and relationship guidance that many Latter-day Saint couples need." --Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, PhD, LCPC, host of the "Ask a Mormon Sex Therapist" podcast. "And It Was Very Good is a valuable resource of clinically accurate and comprehensive sexual education that fits within the value structure of Latter-day Saints. Many problems I see as a sex therapist could be avoided if couples had this type of information prior to or at the beginning of their marital relationship." --Natasha Helfer Parker, LCMFT, CST, host of the "Mormon Sex Info" podcast. By reading And It Was Very Good, an engaged couple will prepare for the wedding night with confidence in the purity of the act. A newlywed couple will join in the marriage bed ready to make the act one of joy. A long-married couple will find new ways to share the act of marriage. And It Was Very Good is much more than the "facts of life." Subjects discussed in detail include the "thou shalt" of marriage, desire, anatomy, foreplay, female pleasure, male pleasure, the wedding night and much more. The frank but respectful advice in And It Was Very Good is presented in a tasteful manner along with framing in gospel principles. All married couples will find themselves drawing closer together by reading And It Was Very Good. And It Was Very Good is a perfect give for an engaged couple, newlyweds, or a spouse.
Sex Lives Of The Popes
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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Sex Lives Of The Popes written by Nigel Cawthorne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the last 2,000 years, the Holy See has seen lechers, pornographers, womanizers, adulterers, and more...A lively expose of papal promiscuity.
The Sex Of The Angels The Saints In Their Heaven
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Author : Raoul Schrott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Sex Of The Angels The Saints In Their Heaven written by Raoul Schrott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fiction categories.
Breviaries, books of standard religious readings for particular denominations, are a familiar genre with a long pedigree. But you've definitely never seen a breviary like this one. The Sex of the Angels is a playful, often ironic take on the breviary in the form of a collection of letters that begins by taking up early Christian cosmology and follows the Biblical mutations of the angel from Babylon to the present day. As it goes along, Raoul Schrott also weaves in a history which ranges from ancient Greek legends of the origin of light to the medieval darkness of the eclipse. But there is more going on here than meets the eye: the letters are addressed to an unnamed "other" and chart the course of an elusive affair. They are, we come to realize, a declaration of love--or, more accurately, of yearning--but also a far-reaching poetic essay which moves between etymological history, anthropological anecdote, philosophy, and disquisition on the nature of art. The text is supplemented by sumptuous illustrations by Arnold Mario Dall'O that chart the stories of the saints, and the result is a unique dialogue between literature and art: an extraordinary and rare book about love.
Gender And Genre In Medieval French Literature
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Author : Simon Gaunt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-11
Gender And Genre In Medieval French Literature written by Simon Gaunt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.
Medieval Saints And Modern Screens
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Author : Alicia Spencer-Hall
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Medieval Saints And Modern Screens written by Alicia Spencer-Hall and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with History categories.
This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.
The Little Book Of Saints
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Author : Christine Barrely
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2011-03-25
The Little Book Of Saints written by Christine Barrely and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with Religion categories.
Learn about the lives and works of over eighty saints in this collection, featuring ninety-two colorfully illustrated holy cards. How does Saint Christopher keep us safe when we travel? Why is Saint Patrick always depicted with a nest of snakes? How did Cecilia come to be the patron saint of music? These wonders and more are explained in this treasure of a book. The perfect book for the devout or any religious occasion, this captivating collection recounts the extra-ordinary legends, heartrending stories, joys, and sorrows of the most beloved saints, from the famous to the mysteriously obscure. Beautifully illustrated with historical pictures from prayer books and missals, this elegant keepsake is a joy to have.