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Author | : June McDaniel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226557235 |
Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that support it.
Author | : Jeff VanderMeer |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374721157 |
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
Author | : Gary DeMar |
Publisher | : American Vision |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780915815104 |
Author | : R. Shorto |
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Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Mike Aquilina |
Publisher | : Scepter Publishers |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 159417394X |
“A TREMENDOUS BREAKTHROUGH” in the study of St. Joseph... ...There are few subjects so challenging” to authors as St. Joseph. So says scholar Scott Hahn in his foreword to this book. Yet the pages that follow give not merely glimpses, but vistas, of St. Joseph’s world. Hahn continues: “You’ll learn about Nazareth — and how it was created almost ex nihilo shortly before Joseph’s birth. You’ll learn about religious practice and education in that place and time. You’ll travel to Egypt and encounter the fascinating settlements of Jews in that land. You’ll also find out how a carpenter worked in those days: what tools he used, what items he crafted, where he got his training, and how he got to and from his job sites.” This book provides an imaginative entry into one of the most important lives in all of history — a life too often obscured by later legends. "
Author | : Valeen Tippetts Avery |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252067013 |
Avery draws on a large body of correspondence for details of David's life and on his poetry to reveal his personality and emotional struggles. She tells of his mental deterioration, starting with a probable breakdown early in 1870 and ending with his death in 1904 in the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Elgin, where he had been confined for twenty-seven years.
Author | : Robert Atwell |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1848258828 |
For every major feast, saint’s day and commemoration in the calendars of the Anglican churches of the UK, this liturgical resource and spiritual companion offers a feast of readings that reflects the richness, depth and variety of the Christian tradition from the earliest years of the church to the present day. Writings from across the centuries represent the Eastern, Western, Roman and Celtic traditions and constitute a vibrant history of Christianity manifested in the lives of hundreds of holy men and women as diverse as first century martyrs, or twentieth century social reformers. A complementary volume to Exciting Holiness which provides scripture readings and prayers for the calendar, this is now updated to include the additional commemorations in the Church of England’s calendar of saints.
Author | : Robert Ellsberg |
Publisher | : Crossroad |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824516796 |
Daily reflections on Saints, Prophets, and witnesses for our time.
Author | : Francine Prose |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480445061 |
This tale of a family in Little Italy is “a minor miracle . . . documenting the madness and the grace of God in everyday life” (Newsweek). On a 1950s September night so hot that the devout Catholics of Little Italy wonder if New York City has slipped into hell, the butcher Joseph Santangelo invites his friends to play pinochle. At the end of a long, sweaty, boozy evening, his friend Lino Falconetti, addled by wine and heat, bets the hand of his daughter, Catherine—and Santangelo wins. Santangelo’s modern new wife clashes immediately with his superstitious, fiercely protective mother. But years later, it is Catherine who is horrified when the daughter they raise turns out to have more in common with the old world than the new. From a New York Times–bestselling author, this story of two generations of an Italian-American family is imaginative, evocative, funny, and warm—and was made into an acclaimed film directed by Nancy Savoca, starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Lili Taylor.
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1998-07-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226106748 |
"(Cioran's) statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning".--WASHINGTON POST. In TEARS AND SAINTS, Cioran touches on nearly all the themes that would preoccupy the writer over the course of his career. Self-consciously perverse, this collection will fascinate anyone interested in saints, mysticism, philosophy, the history of Christianity, or the ultimate strangeness of the sacred.