Place Memory And Healing

Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, this book develops an archaeology of place as a theory of cultural landscapes and as an engaged methodology of fieldwork in order to excavate the genealogies of places. Advocating that archaeology can contribute substantively to the study of places in many fields of research and engagement within the humanities and the social sciences, this book seeks to move beyond the oft-conceived notion of places as fixed and unchanging, and argues that places are always unfinished, emergent, and hybrid. Rock cut monuments of Anatolian antiquity are discussed in the historical and micro-regional context of their making at the time of the Hittite Empire and its aftermath, while the book also investigates how such rock-cut places, springs, and caves are associated with new forms of storytelling, holy figures, miracles, and healing in their post-antique life. Anybody wishing to understand places of cultural significance both archaeologically as well as through current theoretical lenses such as heritage studies, ethnography of landscapes, social memory, embodied and sensory experience of the world, post-colonialism, political ecology, cultural geography, sustainability, and globalization will find the case studies and research within this book a doorway to exploring places in new and rewarding ways.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative historical methodology she calls “curandera history,” this work analyzes the literary work of authors, including Aurora Levins Morales, Nicholasa Mohr, Esmeralda Santiago, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the ways they create medicinal histories that not only document the experiences of migrant women but also heal the trauma of their erasure from mainstream national history. Each analytical chapter focuses on the various methods used by each author including using the literary space as an archive, reclaiming memory, and (re)writing cultural history, all through a feminist lens that centers the voices and experiences of Puerto Rican women.

The Healing Journey helps you build a deeper relationship with your heavenly Father that will carry you victoriously through this life and into the next. Re-discover proven ways to experience God all the time. You will find out how to: • Develop a scriptural “safe place” in your mind and spirit where you can meditate on His Word. • Hear from God and journal what you hear. • Receive a Holy Spirit download of the Father’s heart. • Experience a personal prophetic revelation full of God’s comfort and love. • Increase intimacy with Christ through simple but sound Scripture meditation. • Recover from wounds from satan’s lies. Scriptures are listed in a topical way that focuses on various healing truths so you can learn to “see” Scripture in its deeper context that reveals the very heart of the Father. This scene sets the stage as you hone the spiritual skill of interactive journaling using the Holy Scriptures. My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on Your promises (Psalm 119:148). The Healing Journey guides you in developing greater security in your identity in Christ. Designed as a companion to Healing the Wounded Heart, although it may be used independently, the interactive process includes Scripture meditation, personal prayer and listening to God, journaling, and summarizing what God is saying to you.

Matthew and Dennis consult with surgeons and pro-fessors of scripture and psychiatry in order to com-bine the best insights from medicine, spirituality, and psychiatry for their books.

This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.

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This heartfelt manual is an indispensable and easily referenced resource for grieving grandparents, offering them a way forward after the death of a grandchild. Whether they were close to their grandchild and keenly feeling his or her absence, or even if they were not close to the child and are mourning the loss of a relationship they'll never have, this book offers grandparents compassionate comfort and practical ideas for their journey through grief, addressing as well the unique pain of watching their children mourn the loss of their child. The ideas offered in the book clarify the basic principles of grief and mourning and offer immediate suggestions for things grandparents can do to embrace their grief, honor and remember their grandchild, and begin to heal.