Author: Daniel Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970651112
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book interweaves spiritual quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural analysis, and personal introspection"--Jacket.
In Search of Sacred Places
Author: Daniel Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970651112
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book interweaves spiritual quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural analysis, and personal introspection"--Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970651112
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book interweaves spiritual quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural analysis, and personal introspection"--Jacket.
Sacred Places
Author: Brad Olsen
Publisher: CCC Publishing
ISBN: 9781888729023
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
Publisher: CCC Publishing
ISBN: 9781888729023
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
Author: Victoria Smolkin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Sacred Places of a Lifetime
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203367
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203367
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
The Sacred Place
Author: Daniel Black
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 146681859X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns to depart. Miss Cuthbert, the store attendant, demands that he place the money in her hand, but he refuses, declaring, "I ain't no slave!" and exits with a sense of entitlement unknown to black people at the time. His behavior results in his brutal murder. This event sparks a war in Money, forcing the black community to galvanize its strength in pursuit of equality.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 146681859X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns to depart. Miss Cuthbert, the store attendant, demands that he place the money in her hand, but he refuses, declaring, "I ain't no slave!" and exits with a sense of entitlement unknown to black people at the time. His behavior results in his brutal murder. This event sparks a war in Money, forcing the black community to galvanize its strength in pursuit of equality.
Sacred Places
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152699536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A collection of poems about different places around the world that are considered sacred by various cultures, including Mecca, the Ganges River, and Christian cathedrals.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152699536
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A collection of poems about different places around the world that are considered sacred by various cultures, including Mecca, the Ganges River, and Christian cathedrals.
Sacred Places in North America
Author: Courtney Milne
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781556709579
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the dawn of the 1990 autumn equinox, Courtney Milne climbed into the bucket of a hydraulic lift and was hoisted forty feet into the air beside the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming. From that perspective, it seemed to him as though the Big Horn wheel linked the distant plains with the heavens. And so, the wheel became the starting point of his photographic journey as he followed each spoke across the continent in search of sacred landscapes.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781556709579
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the dawn of the 1990 autumn equinox, Courtney Milne climbed into the bucket of a hydraulic lift and was hoisted forty feet into the air beside the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming. From that perspective, it seemed to him as though the Big Horn wheel linked the distant plains with the heavens. And so, the wheel became the starting point of his photographic journey as he followed each spoke across the continent in search of sacred landscapes.
Loci Sacri
Author: Thomas Coomans
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058678423
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058678423
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
Sacred Places
Author: James Swan
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780939680665
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780939680665
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
Sacred Places
Author: Philemon Sturges
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780399233173
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 9780399233173
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.