Prayers in Stone

Prayers in Stone
Author: Paul Eli Ivey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780252024450

The classical revival style of architecture made famous by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago left its mark on one of the most sustained classical building movements in American architectural history: the Christian Science church building movement. By 1920 every major American city and many smaller towns contained an example of this architecture, financed by the followers of Mary Baker Eddy, the church's founder. These buildings represented a new, burgeoning American institution that appealed to business people and to young men and women working to succeed. Characterized by middle-class congregations that in the early part of the century were over 75 percent women, Christian Science suggested radical civic reform solutions based on an idealistic and pragmatic individualism. It attracted criticism from traditional churches and from the medical establishment due to its rapid growth and to its reinstatement of primitive Christianity's lost elements of physical healing and moral regeneration. Prayers in Stone spins out the close connections between Christian Science church architecture and its social context. This architecture served as a focal point for debates over the possibilities for a new twentieth-century urban architecture that proponents believed would positively shape the behavior of citizens. Thus these buildings played a critical role in discussions concerning religious and secular architecture as major elements of religious and social reform. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, including material from the archives of the Mother Church in Boston, Paul Ivey uses Christian Science architecture to explore the social implications of architecturalstyles and new building technologies, to illuminate class-based notions of civic reform and beautification, and to investigate the use of architecture to bring about religious and social change. In addition, the book explores complex gender issues, including early attempts to define a professional space for women as Christian Science practitioners. Lavishly illustrated, Prayers in Stone focuses on four major city arenas of Christian Science building -- Boston, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay area -- to demonstrate the vital intersection of architecture and religion at the so-called margins of American society.

Stone Prayers

Stone Prayers
Author: Curtiss Hoffman
Publisher: America Through Time
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634990493

Scattered throughout the woodlands and fields of the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada are tens of thousands of stone monuments. These stone constructions have been the subject of debate among archaeologists and antiquarians for the past seventy-five years. Prominent among the competing hypotheses have been the allegations that all of these structures were built by colonial farmers removing rocks from their fields; or that they were built by pre-Columbian transatlantic voyagers; or that they are the result of natural deposition by glaciers or downslope erosion; or that they were constructed as sacred places by the indigenous peoples of the region. The latter hypothesis has gained significant attention over the past decade, as the result of strong and vocal support from the regional descendant indigenous communities for the preservation of these monuments, called by them "stone prayers," from encroachment and desecration by development interests. The purpose of this book is to provide quantitative support for the indigenous construction hypothesis, by providing a framework firmly and explicitly situated in the scientific method to test the four hypotheses above against a robust set of data - a total of 5,550 sites from the entire region.

Stone Bow Prayer

Stone Bow Prayer
Author: Amy Uyematsu
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1556592213

Uyematsu's poems articulate a distinct perspective--a life defined by poetry, mathematics and Asian identity.

Scriptural Prayers for the Praying Mother

Scriptural Prayers for the Praying Mother
Author: White Stone Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Mothers
ISBN: 9781593790004

The Word of God is the most valuable gift you can give yourself and those around you. Share the power of praying Scriptures with those who are closest to you. Learn how to pray in even the most difficult circumstances and see God do extraordinary things through the promises in His Word! This effectual compilation of faith-building prayers is a powerful tool designed to equip and inspire mothers to pray confidently according to God's Word. You and your loved ones will never be without the power of biblical prayer as you add this elegant keepsake to your family heritage. Book jacket.

Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones
Author: Dan Simmons
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2011-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307781879

From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind. A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her. . . . An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror. . . . During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror. . . . Includes the following stories: “The River Styx Runs Upstream” “Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams” “Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell” “Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle” “Remembering Siri” “Metastasis” “The Offering” “E-Ticket to 'Namland” “Iverson's Pits” “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites” “The Death of the Centaur” “Two Minutes and Forty-Five Seconds” “Carrion Comfort”

Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones
Author: Dan Simmons
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her.... An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror.... During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror.... From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind.

Prayers in Stone

Prayers in Stone
Author: Brunilde S. Ridgway
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1999-08-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0520215567

Classical Greek architectural sculpture has never before been fully studied as a single topic.

Eat, Pray, #FML

Eat, Pray, #FML
Author: Gabrielle Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Actresses
ISBN: 9781733963701

"What does a woman do when her life has fallen apart and her heart has been ripped out and stepped on twice in two months? She goes on a wild adventure, makes some bad decisions, and does a sh*t load of soul searching. But most importantly? She finds out how to love ... herself"--Back of book

Jesus: His Story in Stone

Jesus: His Story in Stone
Author: Mike Mason
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1525512218

Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.

Opening the Gates of Heaven

Opening the Gates of Heaven
Author: Perry Stone
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616386533

In Opening the Gates of Heaven, Perry Stone shows you how to release the flow of heaven's blessing through both God's revelation and the intervention of angelic messengers.