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Living without the Dead
Author | : Piers Vitebsky |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226407876 |
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Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion with ancestors is banned as sacred sites are demolished, female shamans are replaced by male priests, and debate with the dead gives way to prayer to gods. For some, this shift means liberation from jungle spirits through literacy, employment, and democratic politics; others despair for fear of being forgotten after death. How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and see the world in a totally different way? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of shamans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, seeking explanations from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the Dead lays bare today’s crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can bring new fulfillments—but also new torments and uncertainties. Vitebsky explores the loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing a diverse range of cultural and spiritual possibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this is a heartbreaking story of cultural change and the extinction of an irreplaceable world, even while new religious forms come into being to take its place.
Living Without the Dead
Author | : Piers Vitebsky |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226475622 |
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To the underworld with Ononti the shamaness -- Leopard power and police power, the jungle and the state -- What the living and the dead have to say to each other -- Memories without rememberers -- Young Monosi changes his world forever -- Doloso complicates the future of his mountaintop village -- Shocked by Baptists -- Christians die mute -- Redeemers human and divine -- Youth economics: life after sonums -- Dancing with alphabet worshippers: once and future hindus? -- Interlude: government kitsch and the old prophet's new message -- Six remarkable women and their destinies -- Epilogue: spiritual ecosystems and loss of theo-diversity
Living Dead Girl
Author | : Elizabeth Scott |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2009-09-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416960607 |
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"This is Alice. She was taken by Ray five years ago. She thought she knew how her story would end. She was wrong."-- [P.4] Cover.
If You Can t Live Without Me Why Aren t You Dead Yet
Author | : Cynthia Heimel |
Publsiher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-10-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0802139507 |
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Heimel has been described by the "Chicago Tribune" as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes." Her new book shows Heimel at her wicked best. Like a hip Erma Bombeck or a Dorothy Parker for today, she is an antidote to an absurd world for smart, sane women.
How the Dead Live
Author | : Will Self |
Publsiher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780802193377 |
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Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish. Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkie—buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated trip through the stages of a lifetime of lust and rage. A career girl in the 1940s, a sexed-up, tippling adulteress in the 1950s and ‘60s, a divorced PR flak in the 1970s and ‘80s, Lily presents us with a portrait of America and England over sixty years of riotous and unreal change. And then it’s over: Lily catches a cab with the aboriginal wizard Phar Lap Jones, her guide to the shockingly banal world of the dead. It’s a world that is surreal but familiar, where she again works in PR and rediscovers how great smoking is, where her cohabitants include Rude Boy, the son who died at age nine and now swears a blue streak, and three eyeless, murmuring wraiths, the Fats—composed of the pounds, literally the whole selves, she lost and gained over her lifetime. As Lily settles into her nonexistence, the most difficult challenge for this staunchly difficult woman is how to understand that she’s dead, and how to leave the rest behind. How the Dead Live is an unforgettable portrait of the human condition, the struggle with life and with death. It’s a novel that will disturb and provoke, the work, in the words of one British reviewer, “of a novelist writing at the height of his powers.”
American Book of the Dead
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Gateways Books & Tapes |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0895560518 |
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With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has died or who is preparing for the dying experience. This book has been and still remains an important tool for providing a spiritual service to a dying person as opposed to grieving, processing loss, or mourning for that person's passage. Front matter includes "Notes on the Labyrinth" (or the Bardo...) and other commentary by the author that provides insights for an American reader who wishes to provide this guiding service to a family member, spouse, friend, or anyone who is terminal. The reading instructions very clearly outline when and what to read, without any limitation of belief system--the practice is presented as non-denominational, not requiring Buddhist or Christian or Jewish prayers, but also not in conflict with any of these. A schedule of readings shows graphically how to carry out the full series of 49 days of readings, at approximately 10 to 20 minutes per reading. The book has been in use since 1974 in various editions, taught in university courses on Death & Dying and related subjects (it is referenced in a recent handbook of acting exercises, for example...), and used by hospice workers and nurses internationally. The American Book of the Dead is often referenced in discussions of the 1970's West Coast spiritual renaissance, and many of the baby boomer generation will recall it in circulation when they were in college or beginning their careers. Translated editions have appeared in Spanish and Greek languages, with editions in preparation in German, French, Italian, and Polish. There is a course available by correspondence and on the internet that gives additional training for readers who wish to pursue the practice of performing "Labyrinth Readings" or "Bardo guiding" as a service to others--beyond one's own family and personal network.
Can Man Live Without God
Author | : Ravi Zacharias |
Publsiher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004-08-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781418514716 |
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In this brilliant and compelling defense of the Christian faith, Ravi Zacharias shows how affirming the reality of God's existence matters urgently in our everyday lives. According to Zacharias, how you answer the questions of God's existence will impact your relationship with others, your commitment to integrity, your attitude toward morality, and your perception of truth.
Teaching the Dead Bird to Sing
Author | : Paul Jones |
Publsiher | : Paraclete Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 155725303X |
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W. Paul Jones was in the prime of a successful academic career when he felt the call to embrace solitude by becoming a hermit in the Ozark Hills. In this candid journal, Jones recounts his journey toward emotional healing and the joy of "being" rather than "doing."