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Gods and Demons
Author | : Deborah Cassrels |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781460709139 |
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Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoir In 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian island of Bali. She was quickly enchanted by everything that most tourists find - its beauty, easy lifestyle, exotic culture, stunning beaches and striking landscapes. Three years later she moved there and became The Australian newspaper's first Bali-based correspondent, covering events throughout Indonesia. Peeling back the tourist veneer, Cassrels soon found herself caught up in a tapestry of beauty, mystery, power, corruption and violence. From the newly jailed, reeling Bali Nine drug gang and the gruesome executions of their condemned bosses, to stories of shackled people, infamous terrorists, powerful tycoons and lavish royal celebrations, Cassrels reveals a hidden side to the mystical Hindu paradise and vast Indonesian archipelago in which all is not as it seems.
God s Demon
Author | : Wayne Barlowe |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765348659 |
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Lord Sargatanas, Brigadier-general in Beelzebub's host, is restless. He has never forgotten what he lost in the Fall. He is sickened by what he has done and what he has become. Now, after a confrontation with a damned soul, he makes a decision that will reverberate through every being in Hell.
God and His Demons
Author | : Michael Parenti |
Publsiher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781616143053 |
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A noted author and activist brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear in this polemic against the dark side of religion. Unlike some popular works by stridently outspoken atheists, this is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. Rather the author's focus is the heartless exploitation of faithful followers by those in power, as well as sectarian intolerance, the violence against heretics and nonbelievers, and the reactionary political and economic collusion that has often prevailed between the upper echelons of church and state. Parenti notes the deleterious effects of past theocracies and the threat to our freedoms posed by present-day fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries. He discusses how socially conscious and egalitarian minded liberal religionists have often been isolated and marginalized by their more conservative (and better financed) coreligionists. Finally, he documents the growing strength of secular freethinkers who are doing battle against the intolerant theocratic usurpers in public life. Historically anchored yet sharply focused on the contemporary scene, this eloquent indictment of religion’s dangers will be welcomed by committed secular laypersons and progressive religionists alike.
Gods and Demons Priests and Scholars
Author | : Bruce Lincoln |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-07-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226035161 |
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Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude. The book begins with Lincoln’s “Theses on Method” and ends with “The (Un)discipline of Religious Studies,” in which he unsparingly considers the failings of uncritical and nonhistorical approaches to the study of religions. In between, Lincoln presents new examinations of problems in ancient religions and relates these cases to larger comparative themes. While bringing to light important features of the formation of pantheons and the constructions of demons, chaos, and the dead, Lincoln demonstrates that historians of religions should take religious things—inspired scriptures, sacred centers, salvific rites, communities graced by divine favor—as the theories of interested humans that shape perception, community, and experiences. As he shows, it is for their terrestrial influence, and not their sacred origins, that religious phenomena merit consideration by the historian. Tackling many questions central to religious study, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars will be a touchstone for the history of religions in the twenty-first century.
A Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons
Author | : Manfred Lurker |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2015-04-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781136106200 |
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Containing around 1,800 entries this Dictionary covers, in one volume, all the important deities and demons from around the world. The gods of ancient mythology appear alongside the gods of contemporary religion, and `lesser' mythologies and religions are also fully covered. The author provides an extensive network of cross-references, allowing the reader to draw cross-cultural comparisons. The Dictionary will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in comparative religion or the diversity of religious views throughout the world.
Gods Demons and Others
Author | : R. K. Narayan |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1993-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226568256 |
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Following in the footsteps of the storytellers of his native India, R. K. Narayan has produced his own versions of tales taken from the Ramayana and the Mahabarata. Carefully selecting those stories which include the strongest characters, and omitting the theological or social commentary that would have drawn out the telling, Narayan informs these fascinating myths with his urbane humor and graceful style. "Mr. Narayan gives vitality and an original viewpoint to the most ancient of legends, lacing them with his own blend of satire, pertinent explanation and thoughtful commentary."—Santha Rama Rau, New York Times "Narayan's narrative style is swift, firm, graceful, and lucid . . . thoroughly knowledgeable, skillful, entertaining. One could hardly hope for more."—Rosanne Klass, Times Literary Supplement
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
Author | : Karel van der Toorn,Bob Becking,Pieter Willem van der Horst |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1006 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802824919 |
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The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is the single major reference work on the gods, angels, demons, spirits, and semidivine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. Book jacket.
The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons
Author | : Manfred Lurker |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Demonology |
ISBN | : 9780415340182 |
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Containing around 1,800 entries this dictionary covers, in one volume, all the important deities and demons from around the world. This will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in comparative religion.