Religion Of A Different Color

Książki Obcojęzyczne>Angielskie>Humanities>Religion & beliefs>Christianity>Christian Churches & denominations>Protestantism & Protes...

0x00179cad00000000

Sklep: Gigant.pl

Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

Książki

Sklep: KrainaKsiazek.pl

A Gospel Of A Different Color

Książki Obcojęzyczne>Angielskie>Humanities>Religion & beliefs>Christianity>Biblical studies & exegesis

0x00cad83000000000

Sklep: Gigant.pl

Ancient Greek Religion John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Provides undergraduate students with a vibrant account of the religious world of ancient Greece, now in its third editionAncient Greek Religion offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to the beliefs, myths, rituals, and deities of Greek religion. Author Jon D. Mikalson provides a vivid depiction of Greek religious practice in Athens, Delphi, and Olympia during the Classical period and in select other cities during the Hellenistic period. This reader-friendly textbook explains basic concepts of Greek polytheism, describes major deities and cults, and discusses various aspects of Greek religious life in the context of the city-state, the village, the family, and the individual.The revised third edition features new contributions by Andrej and Ivana Petrovic. It has two new chapters: one highlighting Roman, Christian, and modern scholars' approaches to Greek religion and one identifying the types of sources used to understand and reconstruct ancient Greek religion. This edition also expands discussion of magic and personal practices and includes an updated and expanded bibliography for each chapter. This popular textbook:* Offers thorough coverage of major Greek gods, heroes, myths, and cults* Presents translations of ancient texts to promote reflection and discussion* Features a glossary of recurring Greek terms and a wealth of high-quality color maps, images, figures, and illustrations* Describes Greek religious practice from the perspectives of different worshippers, such as priests, slaves, family members, and public officials* Discusses various interpretations of the gods and the afterlife, the nature of piety and impiety, and the larger social and political context of ancient GreeceAncient Greek Religion, Third Edition, remains the ideal introductory textbook for undergraduate courses including Greek Civilization, Greek Religion, Greek and Roman Religion, Ancient Religions, and Greek History. It is also an excellent source of reference for graduate students, instructors, and scholars studying religious life in Classical Greece.

Sklep: Libristo.pl

Early History of God William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

In this remarkable history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains for the first time how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined religion with Yahweh as sole god.Repudiating the traditional view that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, this provocative book argues that Israelite religion developed, at least in part, from the religion of Canaan. Looking at a wide range of sources, Smith cogently demonstrates that Israelite religion was not an outright rejection of foreign, pagan gods but, rather, was the result of the establishment of a distinctly separate Israelite identity that included the recognition of a singular, universal deity.

Sklep: Libristo.pl

Where the Conflict Really Lies Oxford University Press Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates - the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. Plantinga, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. His theme in this short book is that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord. Plantinga examines where this conflict is supposed to exist - evolution, evolutionary psychology, analysis of scripture, scientific study of religion - as well as claims by Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Philip Kitcher that evolution and theistic belief cannot co-exist. Plantinga makes a case that their arguments are not only inconclusive but that the supposed conflicts themselves are superficial, due to the methodological naturalism used by science.On the other hand, science can actually offer support to theistic doctrines, and Plantinga uses the notion of biological and cosmological "fine-tuning" in support of this idea. Plantinga argues that we might think about arguments in science and religion in a new way - as different forms of discourse that try to persuade people to look at questions from a perspective such that they can see that something is true. In this way, there is a deep and massive consonance between theism and the scientific enterprise.

Sklep: Libristo.pl

Black Sands - Bonobo (Płyta CD)

Książki & Multimedia > Muzyka

Nazwa - Black Sands Autor - Bonobo Wydawca - Universal Music Kod EAN - 5903111340995 Rok wydania - 2016 Nośnik - Płyta CD Ilość elementów - 1 Podatek VAT - 23% Premiera - 2016-04-22

Sklep: InBook.pl

Czwarty dzwonek - Henryk Gała

Książki & Multimedia > Książki

Opis - To już drugi tom dramatów autorstwa Henryka Gały (ur. 1938 r. w Zalesiu k. Gostynina w Wielkopolsce). Poeta, powieściopisarz, krytyk literacki, ale także organizator kultury, od początków swojej twórczości wiele uwagi poświęcał teatrowi, był przecież m.in. aktywnym świadkiem tej epoki, której szlak w sztuce teatralnej wytyczali Grotowski, Jarocki, Szajna czy Axer. Debiutował jednoaktówką "Nadmiar" wystawioną w 1960 r. Następnie w założonym wspólnie z Jerzym Jankowskim (poetą i pisarzem historycznym) Teatrze CzłoWiek XX inscenizował dramaty (Saroyan, Gruszczyński) oraz prozę (Kafka, Różewicz, Durrenmatt), ale przede wszystkim poezję (Rilke, Brecht, Neruda), eksperymentując także z własnym teatrem wiersza. W 1972 r. objął kierownictwo literackie w Operze Wrocławskiej, dla której napisał libretto opery "Tamango" z muzyką Tadeusza Natansona, zrealizowanej w sezonie 1974/75, a także polski tekst "Czarodzieja Szmaragdowego Grodu" (wg. "Czarodzieja Oza" Bauma). W połowie lat 70. po wyjeździe z Wrocławia osiedlił się w Drozdowie nad Narwią koło Łomży. Tam powstają m.in. kolejne tomy wierszy i dwie powieści dla młodzieży. Tam także organizuje Łomżyńską Orkiestrę Kameralną im. Witolda Lutosławskiego (obecnie Filharmonia Kameralna im. Witolda Lutosławskiego), Teatr Lalek i festiwal Teatru w Walizce, którymi kieruje przez pierwszych pięć lat do roku 1992. Pisarz nie przestaje zajmować się dramaturgią i teatrem, czego dowodem nowy wybór dramatów zatytułowania "Czwarty dzwonek". Nazwa - Czwarty dzwonek Autor - Henryk Gała Oprawa - Miękka Wydawca - Aspra Kod ISBN - 9788375453751 Kod EAN - 9788375453751 Rok wydania - 2012 Język - polski Format - 13.0x19.0cm Ilość stron - 232 Podatek VAT - 5%

Sklep: InBook.pl

Mencken Oxford University Press

Inne 1

People whose opinions I respect have told me, usually with a certain amount of resignation, that culture war is the default state of American politics. The decades of New Deal liberalism, they explain, were not the epochal realignment they appeared to be at the time but merely a temporary armistice in the apparently endless and virtually pointless struggle over manners and morals. What's more, the resumption of cultural hostilities in recent years is just the country's inevitable return to doing what comes naturally. We have simply picked up where we left off in 1929, the theory goes, when other matters distracted us from our habitual preoccupation with the theory of evolution and the scandalous habits of the young. Perhaps this is what explains the publication of the third comprehensive biography of H.L. Mencken in 11 years. If we are truly doomed to fight and refight the culture wars on into the future, then Mencken -- that scoffing, pugnacious enemy of the sacred -- is exactly the critic whose life and views we ought to be remembering. An unbelievably prolific journalist and magazine editor who lived in Baltimore his entire life, Mencken so mocked and punctured the genteel mentality of the Victorians during his heyday (roughly, 1919-30) that it might be said he single-handedly ushered American letters into the 20th century. In the American Mercury, the magazine he co-founded in 1924, Mencken blasted the hyper-patriots, he laughed at the evangelicals, he shamed the racists, he baited the Babbittry, and he did all of it in a swaggering, sarcastic and yet elegant prose style that remains -- or ought to remain, anyway -- the model for every columnist, critic and blog-militant in this famously polarized age. The great man's contemporary relevance, however, is not a point raised by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, the author of this new Mencken biography (she also edited a 1991 collection of his newspaper stories). In fact, the only one of the recent biographers really to press the notion that Mencken is a figure whose time has come (or, more accurately, returned) is Terry Teachout, author of The Skeptic (2002), which asserted that Mencken was politically conservative and that conservatives are in the ascendancy today. The particular species of conservatism that now holds the nation in its grasp, however, owes few debts to Mencken. The man was no fan of what we now call the "red states." On the contrary: He savagely derided the same backwoods civilization that so many conservative writers now embrace in order to establish their regular-guy bona fides. Mencken revered science and lambasted religion; his favorite put-downs, usually applied to the inhabitants of deepest Arkansas or Tennessee, were words like "moron," "idiot" and "yokel." His conservatism was that of Nietzsche, not George Wallace, and one can only speculate wistfully about the kind of destruction he would have visited on such excreta as the Left Behind novels or "The O'Reilly Factor." The immediate problem facing the biographer of Mencken is, ironically, the same quality that makes Mencken such a worthwhile subject: his peerless prose. Any study of the author is bound to disappoint when his own words are cited and the reader suddenly feels the galvanic force of the great man's writing -- and, by comparison, the weakness of the biographer's own abilities. Biographies that focus on the development of Mencken's ideas suffer from this problem even when they are well-written. (They suffer also from the inevitable realization that Mencken's ideas, as opposed to his verbal style, simply do not stand up after 70 years.) Rodgers circumvents this difficulty altogether by giving us Mencken the man, in impressive and often fantastic detail, while keeping the author's writing and ideas largely in the background. Every lead is chased down: The reader learns about what Mencken drank while in Germany during World War I, the testimony he gave in a censorship case in the 1940s, how much affection this person or that felt for him, and, over and over again, the intimate details of his love life. It is a solid and well-researched work, built on dozens of interviews in addition to heroic feats of archival digging. Mencken emerges here as a very different figure from the one we thought we knew from his cranky "Prejudices" books or the sarcastic items he wrote for the American Mercury in its golden age. Rodgers's Mencken is a decent fellow: lovable and almost always in the right. The author's thoroughgoing identification with her subject allows her to create a vivid portrait, but it also makes it difficult for her to show us how shattering Mencken's commentary could be in the early 1920s -- how alien and perverse it seemed to the "100 percent Americans" of those days -- and how monotonous, unfunny and irrelevant it became in the '30s. Any biography of Mencken, though, is ultimately no more than a supplement to the man's own works. Let us hope that this comprehensive study of Mencken's life introduces a new generation of readers to this enemy of falsehood and destroyer of pretense, this man whose response to the absurdity of the culture wars was laughter.

Sklep: Albertus.pl

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals treats the human species as first and foremost an animal, but one with special traits and a strong influence on Earthâ

Sklep: Libristo.pl