The Madness of the Saints

The Madness of the Saints
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.

City of Saints and Madmen

City of Saints and Madmen
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.

Last Days Madness

Last Days Madness
Author: Gary DeMar
Publisher: American Vision
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1993-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780915815104

Tears and Saints

Tears and Saints
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.

Celebrating the Saints

Celebrating the Saints
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.

Meet the Saints: Family Storybook

Meet the Saints: Family Storybook
Author: Lindsay Hardin Freeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Christian saints
ISBN: 9780880284219

Meet the Saints: Family Storybook provides twenty-four stories of saints for families to read together, colorful child-friendly illustrations, thoughtful questions for family conversations, prayers to pray together, and coloring pages for children to enjoy. Using this printed, full-color version of the Meet the Saints: Family Storybook families can together unveil how Christ's light has shone brightly in the lives of men and women through centuries. Join a journey with the saints and your family, learning more about the monks, missionaries, prophets, doctors, evangelists, and more who have led us on our way.

Holy People of the World [3 volumes]

Holy People of the World [3 volumes]
Author: Phyllis G. Jestice
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1044
Release: 2004-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1851096493

A cross-cultural encyclopedia of the most significant holy people in history, examining why people in a wide range of religious traditions throughout the world have been regarded as divinely inspired. The first reference on the subject to span all the world's major religions, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia examines the impact of individuals who, through personal charisma and inspirational deeds, served both as glorious examples of human potential and as envoys for the divine. Holy People of the World contains nearly 1,100 biographical sketches of venerated men and women. Written by religious studies experts and historians, each article focuses on the basic question: How did this person come to be regarded as holy? In addition, the encyclopedia features 20 survey articles on views of holy people in the major religious traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and African religions, as well as 64 comparative articles on aspects of holiness and veneration across cultures such as awakening and conversion experiences, heredity, gender, asceticism, and persecution. Whether exploring by religion, culture, or historic period, this extensively cross-referenced resource offers a wealth of insights into one of the most revealing—and least explored—common denominators of spiritual traditions.

From Mission to Madness

From Mission to Madness
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.

Lectures Vol. 2

Lectures Vol. 2
Author: Swami Vivekananda
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 162
Release:
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 3849695719

Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. This book includes the following of his brilliant lectures: Work And Its Secret The Powers Of The Mind Hints On Practical Spirituality Bhakti Or Devotion The Way To The Realisation Of A Universal Religion The Ideal Of A Universal Religion The Open Secret ... and many more ...