Women of faith and the quest for spiritual authenticity, Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara (bournemouth University, Uk)

Автор: Sally Robinson
Название: Authenticity Guaranteed: Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-Consumerism in American Culture
ISBN: 1625343523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625343529
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Описание: Americans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the ""real"" things in life, including self-determination and individualism. In Authenticity Guaranteed, Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century. American anti-consumerism, despite its apparent complexity, takes a remarkably consistent and predictable narrative form. From the mid-century Organization Man to the millennial No Logo, anti-consumerist critique reinforces the gender order by insisting that authenticity is threatened, and masculine agency curtailed, by the feminizing forces of consumer culture.Robinson identifies a tradition of masculine protest and rebellion against feminization in iconic texts such as The Catcher in the Rye and Fight Club, as well as in critiques of postmodernism, academic denunciations of shopping, and a variety of other discourses that aim to diagnose what ails American consumer culture. This fresh and timely argument enters into conversation with a wide range of existing scholarship and opens up new questions for scholarly and political discussion.

Автор: Van Heerden Juliet
Название: As I Walked: One Man`s Quest for Sexual and Spiritual Identity
ISBN: 1942923465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942923466
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My boyish innocence was stolen by a sexual predator, and I kept the soul-gnawing secret for decades. That experience changed me. Growing up in 1950's England, I couldn't discuss my sexual identity issues with anyone. Feeling isolated and confused, I turned my back on the father who misunderstood me, and the religion that failed me. Later, as I lost friends to AIDS and suicide, I became more determined than ever to live by faith and not by feeling.

Christians often believe God simply wants to change our behavior, but ultimately, He longs to heal our wounded hearts. What shaped me as a lad does not define me. My true identity emerged as I walked out my quest for who I really was, and sought to be the man I was created to be.

In this book, Geoff Pennock, affectionately called "Mr. P," tells his story to his wife, Susan, and stepdaughter, Juliet. Set in a pandemic and framed by Juliet's writing process, this unforgettable memoir gently cushions tragedy and heartache with humor and the quirky daily life and loving banter of "Mr. and Mrs. P."

Автор: Robinson Sally
Название: Authenticity Guaranteed: Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-Consumerism in American Culture
ISBN: 1625343531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625343536
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Описание: Americans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the "real" things in life. In Authenticity Guaranteed, Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century.

Автор: M. Sydney Park
Название: A Biblical Theology of Women
ISBN: 0567423786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567423788
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: M. Sydney Park examines the key female figures in both the Old and the New Testaments, providing a key contribution to our understanding of the role of women in salvation history. This book functions not only as a major contribution to the scholarly debate, but also as a reference resource for Christian theologians and biblical scholars. By laying out out her theology of women, Park exegetically and theologically explores the importance of women in Scripture within the framework of evangelical theology. Park uses the Pauline writings as her starting point, examining them within the context of the rest of the canon. Park shows that Paul's perspective on women cannot be given exclusive authority over nor excluded from productive dialogue with further canonical writings, showing that the biblical chronicle of women discloses a critical theological role, distinct from but not incoherent to their male counterparts in salvation history.

Автор: Claudie Massicotte
Название: Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Seances, 1850-1930
ISBN: 0773549927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773549920
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Описание: Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual seances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada - and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from seances - Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women`s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.

Автор: Michaels Kim
Название: The Spiritual Liberation of Women
ISBN: 8793297769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788793297760
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A cascade of profound spiritual insights on women's situation and how women have a historical opportunity to turn society in a new direction. Learn why certain manipulative beings chose that women should be the inferior sex on earth and how this has impacted civilization. Learn how women can free themselves from the consequences of this manipulation and thereby also free society from the male-dominated bias that is still affecting the world, even in modern democracies.

Beyond mere insights, this book also contains a series of practical tools whereby women can call into physical manifestation the changes that already exist in the spiritual realm and the higher levels of the collective consciousness. Some of the topics covered:

• Why women need to question infallible truth
• The unknown forces behind the suppression of women
• We are spiritual beings and not created as men or women
• The potential for solidarity between women on a world scale
• Why certain religions blame women for the "fall of man"
• Jesus never wanted Christianity to suppress women
• How to overcome control games between men and women
• How to overcome violence against women
• How to free women (and men) from sexual exploitation
• How to free women from control from the power elite
• How to help all women have a better life

Автор: Snodgrass Jill L.
Название: Women Leaving Prison: Justice-Seeking Spiritual Support for Female Returning Citizens
ISBN: 1498544029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498544023
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Women Leaving Prison uses qualitative research methods to uncover the spiritual and religious experiences of female returning citizens. The findings ground the call for a revised prison ministry praxis that details how people of faith and concerned citizens can facilitate returning sisters` successful reentry and work to remove current injustices.

Автор: Duncan Carol B.
Название: This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto
ISBN: 1554588456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554588459
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Описание: This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a significant portion of which comprises Caribbean migrants and their descendants. This book shows how the development of the Spiritual Baptist religion in Canada has been shaped by the immigration experiences of church members, the large majority of whom are women, and it examines the ways in which religious experiences have mediated the members experiences of migration and everyday life in Canada. This Spot of Ground is based on a critical ethnography, with in-depth interviews and participant observations of church services and other ritual activities, including baptism and pilgrimage and field research in Trinidad that explores the transnational linkages with Spiritual Baptists there. The book addresses theoretical and methodological issues also, including the development of perspectives suitable for examining diasporic African religious and cultural expressions characterized by transnational migration, an emphasis on oral tradition as the repository of cultural history, and linguistic and cultural hybridity. This Spot of Ground contributes new information to the study of Caribbean religion and culture in the diaspora, providing a detailed examination of the significance of religion in the immigration process and identity and community formations of Caribbean people in Canada.

Автор: Venema Kathleen
Название: Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces
ISBN: 1771122900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771122900
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Описание: Chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations.

Автор: Divinatrix
Название: My Spiritual Quest
ISBN: 1291757465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291757460
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Автор: Rosetree Rose
Название: Bigger Than All the Night Sky: The Start of Spiritual Awakening. a Memoir.
ISBN: 193521442X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935214427
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Описание: You are in good company. For decades, Energy Spirituality pioneer Rose Rosetree shared the same yearning to understand herself and her greater purpose. She shares that unforgettable story in this book -- a multi-layered, coming-of-age memoir designed to help you see your own sacred search through the lens of hers. Spanning her life from birth to age 23, you will follow every step of Roses halting, stumbling journey of spiritual awakening-a journey replete with ever more colourful characters and vignettes, including... Rose discovering her purpose at age five in the operating room, and promptly forgetting in for decades. her teenage bedroom featuring the "pin-up" image of... Picassos eyes. Her one-on-one encounters with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass. Becoming a highly insecure (yet inspired) TM initiator. Moving Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to tears. As Rose describes, you and everyone on the planet had a "Planning Meeting" before you were born, where Divine input shared your life purpose. Uncovering that purpose is not easy, but all authentic spiritual awakening can help, and Roses discoveries leave you plenty of clues. The book employs a "gradually-maturing-voice" style of writing as Rosetree herself evolves into her first job as a spiritual teacher. With its myriad teaching tales and universal truths -- this one-of-a-kind life chronicle will resonate on many levels, while serving as a potent touchstone for your own spiritual journey.

Автор: Jaini Padmanabh S.
Название: Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women
ISBN: 0520302966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520302969
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 35910.00 T
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Описание: Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining spiritual liberation? In Gender and Salvation, Padmanabh S. Jaini brings to light previously untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects, the Digambaras and the Svetambaras. At the core of the debate is the question of whether gender-based differences of biology and life experience shape or limit an individual's ability to accomplish the ultimate religious goal.

For the Digambaras, the example of total nudity set by Mahavira (599-527 B.C.), the central spiritual figure of Jainism, mandates an identical practice for all who aspire to the highest levels of religious attainment. For the Svetambaras, the renunciation occurs purely on an internal level and is neither affected nor confirmed by the absence of clothes. Both sects agree, however, that nudity is not permitted for women under any circumstances. The Digambaras, therefore, believe that women cannot attain salvation, while the Svetambaras believe they can. Through their analysis of this dilemma, the Jaina thinkers whose texts are translated here demonstrate a level of insight into the material and spiritual constraints on women that transcends the particular question of salvation and relates directly to current debates on the effects of gender in our own society.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.