Encountering Eve's Afterlives

Encountering Eve's Afterlives
Author: Holly Morse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-02-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198842570

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Encountering Eve's Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 aims to destabilize the persistently pessimistic framing of Eve as a highly negative symbol of femininity within Western culture by engaging with marginal, and even heretical, interpretations that focus on more positive aspects of her character. In doing so, this book questions the myth that orthodox, popular readings represent the 'true' meaning of the first woman's story, and explores the possibility that previously ignored or muted rewritings of Eve are in fact equally 'valid' interpretations of the biblical text. By staging encounters between the biblical Eve and re-writings of her story, particularly those that help to challenge the interpretative status quo, this book re-frames the first woman using three key themes from her story: sin, knowledge, and life. Thus, it considers how and why the image of Eve as a dangerous temptress has gained considerably more cultural currency than the equally viable pictures of her as a subversive wise woman or as a mourning mother. The book offers a re-evaluation of the meanings and the myths of Eve, deconstructing the dominance of her cultural incarnation as a predominantly flawed female, and reconstructing a more nuanced presentation of the first woman's role in the Bible and beyond.

Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity

Constructions of Gender in Religious Traditions of Late Antiquity
Author: Shayna Sheinfeld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978714564

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This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.

Interfaith Afterlives of Jesus

Interfaith Afterlives of Jesus
Author: Gregory C. Jenks
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2023-05-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666752460

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This collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social justice, and world religion during the past two thousand years and especially in the present global context. This second volume focuses on the diverse interfaith afterlives of Jesus. Moving beyond the explicitly Christian afterlives traced in volume one, this set of essays explores how Jesus has significant afterlives in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Ruism and Mormonism, as well as selected secular afterlives in progressive Christianity. The contributors include religion scholars from the respective traditions, as well as faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their own religious context. While the essays are all grounded in critical scholarship, reflective practice, or both, they are expressed in nontechnical language that is accessible to interested nonspecialists.

Cultural Afterlives of Jesus

Cultural Afterlives of Jesus
Author: Gregory C. Jenks
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666752495

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This collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social just and world religions during the past two thousand years and especially in the present global context. This third volume focuses on the diverse afterlives of Jesus within contemporary culture and the arts. Moving beyond the explicitly religious afterlives traced in the first two volumes, this set of essay traces selected afterlives of Jesus within Indigenous cultures around the Pacific, as well as in the arts and in the contested fields of gender and sexuality. The contributors include religion scholars from diverse cultural contexts, as well as faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their own particular context. While the essays are all grounded in critical scholarship, reflective practice, or both, they are expressed in nontechnical language that is accessible to interested nonspecialists.

Historical Afterlives of Jesus

Historical Afterlives of Jesus
Author: Gregory C. Jenks
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666746797

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This collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social justice and world religions during the past two thousand years and especially in the present global context. This first volume focuses on selected historical afterlives of Jesus, including the Pantokrator of Byzantium and the Aryan Jesus of Nazi Germany. This collection is not an exercise in Christian apologetics, nor is it an interfaith project—except in the sense that many of the contributors are from a Christian context of some kind, while others are from other contexts. The contributors include scholars in relevant fields, as well as religious practitioners reflecting on Jesus in their own cultural and religious settings. While the essays are original work that is grounded in critical scholarship, reflective practice, or both, they are expressed in nontechnical language so the information is accessible to intelligent nonspecialists.

Afterlife Encounters

Afterlife Encounters
Author: Dianne Arcangel
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2005-09-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1612830862

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Never-before-released research proves the dead communicate with us As a former hospice worker and director of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Center, Dianne Arcangel was certain that visitations from beyond death provided comfort and hope for loved ones still grappling with their loss. As a researcher, however, she was unable to find specific data to measure that comfort and hope. To remedy this lack of information, she created the Afterlife Encounters Survey, a five-year, international survival study. Afterlife Encounters reveals the results of this landmark study and, for the first-time, offers a systematic categorization of such encounters, explaining when these encounters are most likely to occur and what type of apparition is likely to appear. Afterlife Encounters presents not only the data, but also the stories beyond the numbers, as friends and family members relate their visitation experiences in their own words. Included are amazing stories of the dead returning to tell loved ones that they had been murdered and who it was that killed them; apparitions revealing where family treasure was buried; even one spirit who provided a remarkable account of the tragedies of 9/11—weeks before those events occurred. The stats and stories that Arcangel shares are certain to stay with you for a long time, as will her eye-opening conclusion: afterlife encounters provide real, lasting comfort and hope to an astounding 97 percent of those loved ones who experience them.

Answers from Heaven

Answers from Heaven
Author: Theresa Cheung
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Future life
ISBN: 9780349413020

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Through true life stories of ordinary people who have had paranormal experiences, author Theresa Cheung and medium Claire Broad will show the various different ways that heaven is trying to answer our prayers, offer us comfort and provide proof of survival. As well as examining the ways in which messages can come to us, this book outlines the latest scientific research on the afterlife and mediumship, and helps shed light on one of the most important questions about human experience -- what happens after we die?

Afterlife Encounters

Afterlife Encounters
Author: Bret Oldham
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989103176

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Real life accounts of people who have had a near death experience, a message from a loved one who has passed or a face to face encounter with a ghost.

The Departed Among the Living

The Departed Among the Living
Author: Erlendur Haraldsson Ph. D.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781908733290

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From earliest times, people have speculated about what happens when they and their loved ones die. Their views vary from certainty about life after death to utter disbelief. Scientist, Erlendur Haraldsson, a native of Iceland, sought an answer to his question, Have you ever been aware of the presence of a deceased person?

Founding Sins

Founding Sins
Author: Joseph Solomon Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190269243

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In Founding Sins, Joseph Moore examines the forgotten history of the Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists. He explores how they profoundly shaped American's understandings of the separation of church and state and set the acceptable limits for religion in politics for generations to come.