Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority

Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority
Author: Seth M. Limmer
Publisher: CCAR Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2019
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0881233196

This foundational new book reminds us of our ancient obligation to bring justice to the world. The essays in this collection explore the spiritual underpinnings of our Jewish commitment to justice, using Jewish text and tradition, as well as contemporary sources and models. Among the topics covered are women's health, LGBTQ rights, healthcare, racial justice, speaking truth to power, and community organizing.

To Live with Hope, to Die with Dignity

To Live with Hope, to Die with Dignity
Author: Joseph Rudavsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

Surveys the phenomenon of Jewish spiritual survival during the Holocaust in the framework of the Jewish urge to sanctify God through the affirmation of life ("Kiddush ha-hayyim") rather than through martyrdom ("Kiddush Hashem"). Describes the historical development of the concept of "Kiddush ha-hayyim." Ch. 2 (pp. 29-42), "The Ghetto as a Tool for Extermination, " summarizes the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews, and its implementation in the Kovno, Lodz, Vilna, and Warsaw ghettos. Discusses cultural, religious, literary, artistic, and political activities in these ghettos, designed to raise morale and help Jews to survive and live a meaningful existence.

Spirit of Resistance

Spirit of Resistance
Author: Nigel Perrin
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1844684547

A biography of a British World War II secret agent who escaped the Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the most determined and courageous secret agents of the Second World War, Harry Peulevé joined the BEF in 1940 before volunteering for F Section of the Special Operations Executive. On his first mission to occupied France to set up the SCIENTIST circuit, he broke his leg on landing and, after numerous close calls, made a heroic crossing of the Pyrenees on sticks in December, 1942. Imprisoned, he escaped and eventually returned to England in May, 1943. He formed a close friendship with Violette Szabo before setting out to train a Maquis group in central France. Despite the Gestapo’s repeated attempts to catch him, he built a secret army of several thousand resistance fighters. Eventually betrayed and captured, he was tortured at Avenue Foch but never broken. By coincidence, he and Violette met while in captivity before Harry was sent to Buchenwald where he not only avoided execution but also managed to escape, reaching American lines in April, 1945. Sadly, Peulevé never fully recovered from his wartime traumas, but nothing can detract from his outstanding courage and contribution.

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance

Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
Author: Jean Comaroff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022616098X

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.

A Spirituality of Resistance

A Spirituality of Resistance
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN: 9780742532830

A Spirituality of Resistance addresses the challenges of creating a spiritual life in the midst of unprecedented environmental crisis. In the end, Gottlieb finds that only through striving to protect the earth and all its inhabitants can one find authentic personal and spiritual peace.

Rescue and Resistance

Rescue and Resistance
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Macmillan Profiles series is a collection of volumes featuring profiles of famous people, places and historical events. This text profiles heroes and activists of the Holocaust, including Elie Wiesel, Oskar Schindler, Simon Wiesenthal, Primo Levi, Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg, as well as soldiers, Partisans, ghetto leaders, diplomats and ordinary citizens who fought German aggression and risked their lives to save Jews.

The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape

The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape
Author: Lindsay Michie
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1498576214

From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.

Awakening from Anxiety

Awakening from Anxiety
Author: Connie L. Habash
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 164250081X

Use this spiritual guide to equip yourself with the tools needed to tear down anxiety and build inner peace. Spiritual people often find that their own expectations of living a life dedicated to a higher power makes them more susceptible to high-functioning anxiety. Sometimes, traditional relaxation techniques either do not work, don’t last, or, in some cases, actually increase their anxiety. Psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and interfaith minister Rev. Connie L. Habash has helped hundreds of spiritual people overcome fear and anxiety, regain happiness, and feel calmer. In over twenty-five years as a counselor helping spiritual people overcome anxiety, Rev. Connie has taught that it takes more than chanting mantras, stretching, or relaxation techniques to calm anxiety. It requires a transformation in perception, moment-to-moment body awareness, and a conscious response to thoughts and emotions. Awakening from Anxiety provides valuable psycho-spiritual tools to deepen spiritual awakening and calm fears:Learn what anxiety is and when it becomes a problemUnderstand the six mistakes spiritual people make that increase anxietyDiscover the seven keys to a more calm, confident, courageous lifeKnow how to break through the old patterns of stress, worry, and fear into a new perception of your true selfExplore spiritual principles and yoga philosophy to cultivate inner peace If you enjoyed Stop Anxiety from Stopping You and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Awakening from Anxiety will take your healing and renewal from anxiety to the next level. “A book I will recommend to many for both practical advice and spiritual insights for handling stress, worry, and anxiety.”?Becca Anderson, author of Prayers for Calm

Resistance

Resistance
Author: Havi Ben-Sasson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2004
Genre: Anti-Nazi movement
ISBN:

A textbook for grades 9 and 10 on Jewish spiritual and physical resistance during the Holocaust. Includes excerpts from memoirs and questions intended to stimulate class discussion on various issues, e.g. the historical context of Jewish powerlessness versus the Nazis, survival as resistance, and types of heroism. Discusses motivations of resisters who, for example, destroyed murder facilities but left evidence for later generations. Considers such loci of resistance as family, youth movement, and community, and the roles of Jewish culture and religion. Includes information on the "final revolt", in the death camps. The publication was timed to mark the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Spirit and Resistance

Spirit and Resistance
Author: George E. Tinker
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

After five hundred years of conquest and social destruction, he says, any useful reflection must come to terms with the political state of Indian affairs and the political hopes and visions for recovering the health and well-being of Indian communities. Does Christian theology have a positive role to play?