Gods Behaving Badly

Author	: Marie Phillips
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-05-05
ISBN 10	: 9781407091488
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Gods Behaving Badly written by Marie Phillips and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out... Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart.

Gods Behaving Badly

Author	: Pete Ward
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN 10	: IND:30000127725368
Pages	: 180 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Gods Behaving Badly written by Pete Ward and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods Behaving Badly examines the blurred boundary between popular culture and religionùone that has given way to an often confounding fusion of the sacred and the profane. Flipping through pages of tabloid media and looking underneath the veil of Hollywood's glamour, Pete Ward exposes how, in its consumer life, Western society elevates celebrity to the theological and, in so doing, creates a new para-religion. Inevitably, whether despised or extolled, individual celebrities evoke public moral judgment, creating fertile ground for theological innovation. --

Christianity and Roman Society

Author	: Gillian Clark
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2004-12-13
ISBN 10	: 0521633869
Pages	: 156 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (338 users)

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Download or read book Christianity and Roman Society written by Gillian Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews and heretics can be challenged and the degree to which Christian groups offered support to their members and to those in need. The work examines how non-Christians reacted to the spectacle of martyrdom and to Christian reverence for relics. Questions are also raised about why some Christians encouraged others to abandon wealth, status and gender-roles for extreme ascetic lifestyles and about whether Christian preachers trained in classical culture offered moral education to all or only to the social elite. The interdisciplinary and thematic approach offers the student of early Christianity a comprehensive treatment of its role and influence in Roman society.

Sharing Friendship

Author	: John B. Thomson
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-03-03
ISBN 10	: 9781317055600
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book Sharing Friendship written by John B. Thomson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing Friendship represents a post-liberal approach to ecclesiology and theology generated out of the history, practices and traditions of the Anglican Church. Drawing on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, this book explores the way friendship for the stranger emerges from contextually grounded reflection and conversations with contemporary Anglican theologians within the English tradition, including John Milbank, Oliver O’Donovan, Rowan Williams, Daniel Hardy and Anthony Thiselton. Avoiding abstract definitions of character, mission or friendship, John Thomson explores how the history of the English Church reflects a theology of friendship and how discipleship in the New Testament, the performance of worship, and the shape of Anglican ecclesiology are congruent with such a theology. The book concludes by rooting the theme of sharing friendship within the self-emptying kenotic performance of Jesus’ mission, and looks at challenges to the character of contemporary Anglican ecclesiology represented by secularization and globalization as well as by arguments over appropriate new initiatives such as Fresh Expressions.

A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola

Author	: Naaman Wood
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2022-08-31
ISBN 10	: 9781793636805
Pages	: 303 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (936 users)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola written by Naaman Wood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.

Siren Call Gods Behaving Badly 1

Author	: Jana Downs
Publisher	: Siren-BookStrand
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9781622429356
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (224 users)

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Download or read book Siren Call Gods Behaving Badly 1 written by Jana Downs and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Romance, M/M, gods, HEA] In a world where gods and men live and work side by side, Rorik, son of Loki, is a man without equal. A very successful trader, he sails the globe with his crew seeking profit and adventure. However, this time he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Capturing a male siren might’ve seemed fun at first but having him may prove dangerous to Rorik keeping his heart. Terren never expected to find freedom in the arms of a barbarian. Promised to a man he’s never met, he yearns for escape. When Rorik comes ashore, he thinks perhaps his luck has turned for the better. A life with the barbarian promises adventure and freedom within the year if he serves on Rorik’s crew. However, other gods will go to any lengths to get him back where he belongs. Can they find the strength to forge their own destiny or will the pressure separate them before they have a chance? ** A Siren Erotic Romance

A Million and One Gods

Author	: Page duBois
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Release Date	: 2014-06-16
ISBN 10	: 9780674728837
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (747 users)

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Download or read book A Million and One Gods written by Page duBois and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.

Telling God s Story

Author	: Preben Vang
Publisher	: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2021-02-01
ISBN 10	: 9781535991599
Pages	: 544 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (359 users)

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Download or read book Telling God s Story written by Preben Vang and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling God’s Story looks closely at the Bible from its beginning in Genesis to its conclusion in Revelation. By approaching Scripture as one purposefully flowing narrative, emphasizing the inter-connectedness of the text, veteran college professors Preben Vang and Terry G. Carter reinforce the Bible’s greatest teachings and help readers in their own ability to share God’s story effectively with others. Updated to include more interaction with biblical theology and a new section on the intertestamental period, this third edition of Telling God's Story is ideal for Christians seeking to grow in their understanding of God’s Word.

For the Love of the Gods

Author	: Brandy Williams
Publisher	: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date	: 2016-09-08
ISBN 10	: 9780738749778
Pages	: 291 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (387 users)

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Download or read book For the Love of the Gods written by Brandy Williams and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the Footsteps of History and Discover the Path to the Gods For the Love of the Gods tells the epic story of theurgy, from its roots in ancient Egypt to its modern day practice. The lives and passions of the early Pagan philosophers come alive in these pages, immersing you in the bustling cities and diverse cultures that spawned theurgy as we know it today. Theurgy is best understood when it is deeply experienced. The stories presented here re-create the experience of these ancient practices and show how they were passed down through generations of teachers and students of differing ethnicities, genders, and ages. It's commonly believed that ancient Pagan theurgy traditions were erased from the earth and replaced by monotheistic religions—but this is a myth. The way to the gods was never lost. For the Love of the Gods shares step-by-step instructions for theurgic rituals, so that you can create relationships with the gods and love them as the ancients did. Discover how to offer devotionals, create living statues, invoke into yourself and others, and achieve personal communion so that you, too, may dwell in the happy presence of the divine.

Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy

Author	: Brett M. Rogers
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2017
ISBN 10	: 9780190610067
Pages	: 385 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (96 users)

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Download or read book Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy written by Brett M. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy presents fifteen all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice.

God

Author	: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher	: Pan Macmillan
Release Date	: 2021-09-16
ISBN 10	: 9781509867349
Pages	: 458 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (98 users)

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Download or read book God written by Francesca Stavrakopoulou and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2022 'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' – Sunday Times 'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators working today' – Dan Snow Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great monotheistic religions. But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou reveals, God’s cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences about human existence and experience; our concept of life and death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God’s body, from his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and societies of the biblical world. And in doing so she analyses not only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions, but also the origins of Western culture. Beautifully written, passionately argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural history on a grand scale.

Neil Gaiman and Philosophy

Author	: Tracy Lyn Bealer
Publisher	: Open Court Publishing
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9780812697650
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (126 users)

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Download or read book Neil Gaiman and Philosophy written by Tracy Lyn Bealer and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight philosophers discuss the works of the best-selling novelist and reveal their thoughts on the intersection of fantasy and reality and whether the unknown is as real as the known.

Memory and the Wars on Terror

Author	: Jessica Gildersleeve
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2017-10-24
ISBN 10	: 9783319569765
Pages	: 283 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (195 users)

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Download or read book Memory and the Wars on Terror written by Jessica Gildersleeve and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside of the US framework. Existing critical coverage ignores the meaning of these events for people, nations and cultures apparently peripheral to them but which have - as shown in this collection - been extraordinarily affected by the social, political and cultural changes these wars have wrought. Adopting a literary and cultural history approach, the book asks how these events resonate and continue to show effects in the rest of the world, with a particular focus on Australia and Britain. It argues that such reflections on the impact of the Wars on Terror help us to understand what global conflict means in a contemporary context, as well as what its representative motifs might tell us about how nations like Australia and Britain perceive and construct their remembered identities on the world stage in the twenty-first century. In its close examination of films, novels, memoir, visual artworks, media, and minority communities in the years since 2001, this collection looks at the global impacts of these events, and the ways they have shaped, and continue to shape, Britain and Australia’s relation to the rest of the world.

Luka and the Fire of Life

Author	: Salman Rushdie
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-09-30
ISBN 10	: 9781407092461
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Luka and the Fire of Life written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task. With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables, and it proved to be one of his most popular books with readers of all ages. While Haroun was written as a gift for his first son, Luka and the Fire of Life, the story of Haroun's younger brother, is a gift for his second son on his twelfth birthday. Lyrical, rich with word-play, and with the narrative tension of the classic quest stories, this is Salman Rushdie at his very best.

Restless

Author	: David J. Gillard
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date	: 2022-01-06
ISBN 10	: 9781666711899
Pages	: 249 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (667 users)

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Download or read book Restless written by David J. Gillard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do many popular songs positively reference God if our culture is widely viewed as secular? Why is it a challenge to tell the Christian story when many say they are spiritual and believe in God? Why do we draw so much meaning from the popular songs we listen to? And might a deeper understanding of popular-music culture help us to explore the bigger stories we listen to throughout our lives, such as the Christian story? Primarily using Zygmunt Bauman’s understanding of “liquid modernity” we look at the social forces that shape Western society and consider why, while many are looking for “authentic,” ontologically based stories to understand their life experiences, historic providers of the big stories that shape our lives, such as the church, favor a different, epistemological way of telling them. How do these different approaches to storytelling affect their reception and what insight might we draw from that? Whilst this book is written primarily with those in Christian ministry in mind, it will be of interest, too, to those who use music to explore life experiences through their work, who are interested in the social forces that shape society, or who simply enjoy listening to popular music.

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

Author	: Robert Fowler
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2004-10-14
ISBN 10	: 0521012465
Pages	: 448 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (124 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Homer written by Robert Fowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus of the poems, the formulae, the characters and the archaeological background, there are detailed discussions of similes, speeches, the poet as story-teller and the genre of epic both within Greece and worldwide. The reception chapters include assessments of ancient Greek and Roman readings as well as selected modern interpretations from the eighteenth century to the present day. Chapters on Homer in English translation and 'Homer' in the history of ideas round out the collection.

Seven Revolutions

Author	: Mike Aquilina
Publisher	: Image
Release Date	: 2015-02-24
ISBN 10	: 9780804138970
Pages	: 233 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book Seven Revolutions written by Mike Aquilina and published by Image. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining history, politics, and religion, Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea provide practical lessons to be learned from the struggles of the Early Church, lessons that can be applied to the day-to-day lives of Christian readers. Prolonged, multiple wars in the Middle East. Waves of immigrants crossing the borders. Ongoing economic recession. Increasing political polarization, often with religious overtones. Conflicts over ideologies that pit the progressive against the traditional. Sound familiar? These conditions not only describe the United States, but the situation of the Roman Empire in the third century. That situation led to religious persecution and the eventual collapse of the empire. In the middle of the third century, the Roman Empire was roughly the same age as the United States is now. In this book, authors Mike Aquilina and Jim Papandrea examine the practices of the Early Church—a body of Christians living in Rome—and show how the lessons learned from these ancient Christians can apply to Christians living in the United States today. The book moves from the Christian individual, to the family, the church and the world, explaining how the situation of the Early Church is not only familiar to modern Christian readers, but that its values are still relevant