Is Nothing Sacred?
| Author | : Salman Rushdie |
| Publisher | : Penguin Group |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Conversion A Spiritual Novel About The Sacred The Profane
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The Sacred and the Profane
| Author | : Mircea Eliade |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1959 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780156792011 |
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
Strange Gods
| Author | : Susan Jacoby |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1400096391 |
In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. Covering the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, American plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—along with individual converts including Augustine of Hippo, John Donne, Edith Stein, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush and Mike Pence—Strange Gods makes a powerful case that nothing has been more important in struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.
Amorous Initiation
| Author | : O. V. de L. Milosz |
| Publisher | : Inner Traditions |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1993-11-01 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780892814183 |
Count Pinamonte tells the narrator, a Danish nobleman, how a failed love affair led him to search for the spiritual meaning of love
Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images
| Author | : Gabriele Paleotti |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 160606116X |
In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Paleotti's 'Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images' argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators.
Take This Bread
| Author | : Sarah Miles |
| Publisher | : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1848252145 |
The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread is not only a spiritual memoir but a call to action. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer. Then one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. She ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed, embracing a faith she’d scorned and which would lead to feeding others in a way that she’d never imagined. Sara started a food pantry giving away literally tons of food from around the same altar where she’d first received the body of Christ, and providing hundreds of hungry families with free groceries each week. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and gangsters – all blown into Miles’ life by the relentless force of her new-found calling. Here, in this beautiful, passionate book, is Christ’s living communion.
Creation of the Sacred
| Author | : Walter Burkert |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 1998-01-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780674175709 |
Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.
The First Great Awakening
| Author | : John Howard Smith |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2014-12-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1611477158 |
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture. Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London
The Saints of Santa Ana
| Author | : Jonathan E. Calvillo |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190097795 |
This book takes readers into the Mexican-majority neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California, a city once dubbed the hardest place to live in the U.S. Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the challenges faced by Mexican immigrants in this working-class city, highlighting how faith practices are central to social interactions and community building. How does faith shape residents' sense of ethnic identity? Drawing on five years of participant observation and in-depthinterviews, The Saints of Santa Ana offers a rich portrait of a fascinating American community.
The Structure of Religious Knowing
| Author | : John D. Dadosky |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-03-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780791460610 |
Provides a critical exploration of Mircea Eliade's notion of the sacred by referencing the work of Bernard Lonergan.
