The Emancipation Of The Soul

This book analyzes the mythological content of five television franchises within the genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror: The X-Files & Millennium, Babylon 5 & Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel, Stargate and Star Trek. The central themes are errand into the wilderness, emancipation from larger powers, individual responsibility, prophecy, apocalyptic scenarios, fundamentalism, artificial intelligence, as well as hybridity, gender roles, psychotic narration, and others. The theoretical basis for this work are both a conventional cultural studies perspective as well as memetics, an evolutionary perspective of culture and literature that is utilized in this volume as an approach to studying genre at the example of the five case studies.

Let Your Heart Go Free is a book for those who love God and long to follow him well. Yet, in the quiet of their soul they wonder why they still wrestle with the same fears, sorrows, desires, shame, or behavior they had in the beginning of their faith. This book is a journey to becoming free through renewed thinking about the person of Jesus.

Making a new religious freedom -- Independent black church conventions, 1866-1868 -- Religion, race, and gender at the congregational level -- Theological education, race relations, and gender, 1875-1882 -- Politics of engagement.

Welcome to God s Love. As a Christian writer, I felt destined to write in a sequence that would manifest through the soul of its reader. Within my heritage, I discovered the inspiration I needed to stand for the influence of peace. Yet, due to the diversity of society and the uniformity of God s word, I did not narrow my perspective to an audience, knowing the Holy Spirit would revolutionize my words to revitalize hope.

Emancipate Yourself From a System Designed to Break You... Written to free individuals incarcerated Spiritually, Mentally, Financially, and Physically-Emancipation Freedom for the Incarcerated Soul is a book that goes beyond teaching you how to break free from the broken systems in society. It also shines a light on the social and economic injustices minorities face because of its brokenness. Loaded with tools and strategies specifically designed to free individuals incarcerated, Emancipation Freedom for the Incarcerated Soul will help you: Break free from the broken systems in society (Government, Banking, Healthcare, Education, etc.).Harness the power within yourself to become the solution to your own personal problems and the problems in society. Take back and regain control of your life. Obtain Spiritual, Mental, Financial, and Physical freedom. Full of thought-provoking exercises, Bible Scriptures, and prayers, Emancipation Freedom for the Incarcerated Soul will show you how to see negative circumstances in a whole new light.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies. Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical studies have been rare, often speculative and deterministic. Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran explores from a theoretical perspective the problem of democracy deficit—or, political decadence—in contemporary Iran and, by implication, in present-day Middle Eastern societies. This decadence, the book argues, is in part a religion-based decadence, and deliverance from it requires collective thoughtfulness about religion. Alireza Shomali conceptualizes the Iranian Reality in terms of a lack of not only good life but also thinking of good living. This thoughtlessness means dissolution of critical consciousness and, as such, it heralds escalating decadence. At this moment of rapid decay, the book argues, thought must become relevant to society: the communicative practice of thinking must emerge to examine the pathologies of a religiously administrated life. Opening a dialogue between Adorno, Strauss, Farabi and Razi, among others, Shomali underlines the critical points of similarity and difference between these thinkers and envisions a “local” emancipatory project that, noting the specifics of the Iranian case, takes lessons from the Western experience without blind imitation. Alireza Shomali is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College. He is the author of Politics and the Criteria of Truth.

"The Emancipation of Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1590-1670 argues that the application of tools, developed in the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, to the Bible was aimed at stabilizing the biblical text but had the unintentional effect that the text grew more and more unstable. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) capitalized on this tradition in his notorious Theological-political Treatise (1670). However, the foundations on which his radical biblical scholarship is built were laid by Reformed philologists who started from the hermeneutical assumption that philology was the servant of reformed dogma. On the basis of this principle, they pushed biblical scholarship to the center of historical studies during the first half of the seventeenth century. Dirk van Miert shows how Jacob Arminius, Franciscus Gomarus, the translators and revisers of the States' Translation, Daniel Heinsius, Hugo Grotius, Claude Saumaise, Isaac de La Peyráere, and Isaac Vossius all drew on techniques developed by classical scholars of Renaissance humanism, notably Joseph Scaliger, who devoted themselves to the study of manuscripts, (oriental) languages, and ancient history. Van Miert assesses and compares the accomplishments of these scholars in textual criticism, the analysis of languages, and the reconstruction of political and cultural historical contexts, highlighting that their methods were closely linked"--Publisher's description.