Author: Clinton ColegrovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The European Sphynx: Or, Satan's Masterpiece. Louis Napoleon the Personal Anti-Christ and the Man of Sin. The Coming of the Lord at Hand
Author: Clinton ColegroveDemons in the USA
Author: Michael E. HeyesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040135226
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination. The book begins by tracing the conservative Christian encounter with Spiritualism in the nineteenth century and the mode of thinking about the demonic which developed. As Spiritualism’s core principles reappeared in the New Age, Christian interlocutors once more drew on this "anti-Spiritualist" paradigm to condemn the movement. This condemnation is absorbed by and amplified through the film The Exorcist. The author considers how the success of the film disseminates the anti-Spiritualist paradigm in surprising ways, entangling it with entertainment, science, and politics such that it influences psychology, the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and the contemporary QAnon movement. This entanglement points to the broader argument of the work: While we may wish to think of a film as "entertainment" (and thus, having no bearing on "reality") or demonic material as "religious" (and thus exempt from categories like "politics" or "science"), the truth is that categories are not so easily separated. The author contends that the need to enforce the boundaries of such categories (and the failure to do so) is a hallmark of the intellectual construct of modernity, and that those who believe in demons in the contemporary United States are surprisingly modern in their views. The book grounds the importance of media to the twentieth-and twenty-first- century religious experience, arguing that the United States of today would not be possible without The Exorcist and its products. Demons in the USA will be of particular interest to scholars dealing with religion in America, those with a focus on religion and film, or those involved with contemporary demonology.
Miscellaneous Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Little History of the World
Author: E. H. GombrichPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Black Man
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible
Author: Benjamin Breckinridge WarfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258937836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson