Author: Douglas J. ElwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Churches and Sects in the Philippines
Author: Douglas J. ElwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Churches and Sects in the Philippines
Author: Douglas J. ElwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Studies in Philippine Church History
Author: Gerald H. AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
January 1977
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Author: Fenella CannellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646222
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
What kind of reciprocity exists between unequal partners? How can a 'culture' which makes no attempt to defend unchanging traditions be understood as such? In the Christian Philippines, inequalities - global and local - are negotiated through idioms of persuasion, reluctance and pity. Fenella Cannell's study suggests that these are the idioms of a culture which does not need to represent itself as immutable. Her account of Philippine spirit-mediumship, Catholicism, transvestite beauty contests, and marriage in Bicol calls for a reassessment of our understanding of South-East Asian modernity. Combining a strong theoretical interest in the anthropology of religion with a broader comparative attention to recent developments in South-East Asian studies, she offers a powerful alternative to existing interpretations of the relationship between culture and tradition in the region and beyond. This book addresses not only South-East Asianists, but all those with an interest in the anthropology of religion and post-colonial cultures. Power and Intimacy in the Christian Phillipines has won the Harry J. Benda prize for 2001.
Practicing Safe Sects
Author: F. LeRon ShultsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004360956
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?
Economic Origins of Roman Christianity
Author: Robert Burton EkelundPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226200027
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Using basic concepts of economic theory, the authors explain the origin and subsequent spread of Roman Christianity, showing first how the standard concepts of risk, cost and benefit can account for the demand for religion.
A Short History of the Philippines
Author: Teodoro A. AgoncilloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A People Adrift
Author: Peter SteinfelsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743261449
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In this national bestseller, the most influential layman in the United States reports that the Roman Catholic Church in America must either profoundly reform or lapse into permanent irrelevance.
Creatures of Philippine Lower Mythology
Author: Maximo D. RamosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Exorcisms
Author: Joseph P. LaycockPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries and around the world, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth-century South Africa A Penguin Classic Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. The signs of spirit possession have been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50 countries for a weeklong seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set upon by demons in the form of a lion, a bull, and a panther, who are no match for his devotion and prayer; the Prophet Muhammad casting an enemy of God out of a young boy; fox spirits in medieval China and Japan; a headless bear assaulting a woman in sixteenth-century England; the possession in the French town of Loudun of an entire convent of Ursuline nuns; a Zulu woman who floated to a height of five feet almost daily; a previously unpublished account of an exorcism in Earling, Iowa, in 1928--an important inspiration for the movie The Exorcist; poltergeist activity at a home in Maryland in 1949--the basis for William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist; a Filipina girl "bitten by devils"; and a rare example of a priest's letter requesting permission of a bishop to perform an exorcism--after witnessing a boy walk backward up a wall. Fifty-seven percent of Americans profess to believe in demonic possession; after reading this book, you may too. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.