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Author: Phillip D. Skitt Jr. Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524572349 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
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Follow Sawyer Cobb and his family as he recounts the terrifying events that took place during the summer of 2012. Fear is grasped and nerves are tested when someone or something begins to terrorize the Cobb family in their home located in Simpsonville, South Carolina. With the help of his lifelong friend, pastor, and an expert in the paranormal, Sawyer begins to hypothesize what is tormenting his family. I urge you to read this book with an open mind. The events that took place could possibly lead to a revelation that leaves even the top skeptics skeptical.
Author: Phillip D. Skitt Jr. Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524572349 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
Follow Sawyer Cobb and his family as he recounts the terrifying events that took place during the summer of 2012. Fear is grasped and nerves are tested when someone or something begins to terrorize the Cobb family in their home located in Simpsonville, South Carolina. With the help of his lifelong friend, pastor, and an expert in the paranormal, Sawyer begins to hypothesize what is tormenting his family. I urge you to read this book with an open mind. The events that took place could possibly lead to a revelation that leaves even the top skeptics skeptical.
Author: Joel Elliot Slotkin Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319527975 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 295
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This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.
Author: Gareth Medway Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 081475645X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 475
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A frequent writer on comparative religion and the history of occultism, Medway begins by exploring what a Satanist is and why people worship Satan, then looks at such topics as the history of Satan and the Pact, Satanic crime, hell on earth, sex slaves of Lucifer, and the relationship between paranoia and conspiracy. He explains that as a Pagan he does not believe in Satan, but neither does he believe in Christianity but knows Christians are real. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Richard von Glahn Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520928776 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 401
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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion—as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.
Author: Lawrence Wright Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385350279 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 359
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes “an utterly necessary story” (The Wall Street Journal) that pulls back the curtain on the church of Scientology: one of the most secretive organizations at work today. • The Basis for the HBO Documentary. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright—armed with his investigative talents, years of archival research, and more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—uncovers the inner workings of the church. We meet founder L. Ron Hubbard, the highly imaginative but mentally troubled science-fiction writer, and his tough, driven successor, David Miscavige. We go inside their specialized cosmology and language. We learn about the church’s legal attacks on the IRS, its vindictive treatment of critics, and its phenomenal wealth. We see the church court celebrities such as Tom Cruise while consigning its clergy to hard labor under billion-year contracts. Through it all, Wright asks what fundamentally comprises a religion, and if Scientology in fact merits this Constitutionally-protected label.
Author: M. Devaney Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230375790 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 251
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'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the history of ideas and the history of literature.
Author: Richard von Glahn Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520234081 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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Annotation A survey of Chinese religion from 1000 BC to the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a study of the ambiguitues of divine power in Chinese religion.
Author: David J. Collins, S. J. Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271084391 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 301
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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
Author: Phillip D. Skitt Jr.
Author: Phillip D. Skitt Jr.
Author: Joel Elliot Slotkin
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