Religious Studies
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:John G. Turner

Jedediah Grant, late-nineteenth-century engraving of earlier photograph (courtesy of Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) In Young’s mind, one sign of lukewarm commitment was the ...
( Category: Americas July 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Ian Buruma

Mao unified China and imposed a harsh new order, in the manner of the First Emperor. For this he is still venerated by many Chinese. Some traditionalists even worship him ...
( Category: Asia July 15,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Penguin Classics [Classics, Penguin]

CHAPTER 2 AWARENESS The Pali word translated here as ‘awareness’ is appamāda, the opposite of pamāda, ‘intoxication’, ‘carelessness’, ‘unawareness’. As often in Pali, the negative suffix has a stronger force ...
( Category: Buddhism July 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-11-30 | Author:Charles Panati [Panati, Charles]

MONOTHEISM CATCHES THE GREEK FANCY: GREECE, FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E. The Jews really practiced what’s called ethnic monotheism—there is One God, and that God belongs only to his Chosen People. The ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 9,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-11 | Author:Thomas L. Thompson [Thompson, Thomas L.]

Yahweh empties the earth, makes it a wasteland, turning it upside down. . . . A curse has devoured the earth and its inhabitants . . . because they have ...
( Category: History July 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Jessica Frazier [Frazier, Jessica]

It is this person who knows and ‘enters’ the whole world, both identifying with it and transcending its particularities. Again, there is a striking difference from the self-as-consciousness conceived in ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 9,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Harding, Douglas [Harding, Douglas]

(5) Practising Headlessness Now the “hard” part begins, which is the repetition of this headless seeing-into-Nothingness till the seeing becomes quite natural and nothing special at all; till, whatever one ...
( Category: Buddhism July 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:Marilynne Robinson [Robinson, Marilynne]

THREE The Freudian Self Toward the end of his life, Carl Jung, remembering his association and his differences with Sigmund Freud, says, “Above all, Freud’s attitude toward the spirit seemed ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Institute For Creation Research [Institute For Creation Research]

( Category: Religious Studies July 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Nehamas, Alexander, Kaufmann, Walter

( Category: Philosophy June 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:W Y Evans

[The Sidpa Bardo] This is known as the good head-part of that called 'The Profound Essence of the Liberation by Hearing', -- the reminder, the clear setting- face-to-face in the ...
( Category: Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts June 29,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Michael Puett

Strength Lies in Weakness Weakness overcomes strength, Softness overcomes hardness. When we persist in perceiving the world as a collection of completely disparate things (this room, that dog, my cup, ...
( Category: Philosophy June 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Sumption, Jonathan [Sumption, Jonathan]

( Category: History June 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Christine Leigh Heyrman

THOSE SECOND thoughts and bruised feelings made it easy for preachers to empathize with the many other white southern men for whom godly women threatened self-regard. Not least among them ...
( Category: World June 29,2017 )