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Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination
by Rachel RubinsteinIn Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination, author Rachel Rubinstein examines interventions by Jewish writers into an ongoing American fascination with the "imaginary Indian." Rubinstein argues that Jewish writers represented and identified with the figure of the American Indian differently than their white counterparts, as they found in this figure a mirror for their own anxieties about tribal and national belonging. Through a series of literary readings, Rubinstein traces a shifting and unstable dynamic of imagined Indian-Jewish kinship that can easily give way to opposition and, especially in the contemporary moment, competition. In the first chapter, "Playing Indian, Becoming American," Rubinstein explores the Jewish representations of Indians over the nineteenth century, through narratives of encounter and acts of theatricalization. In chapter 2, "Going Native, Becoming Modern," she examines literary modernism's fascination with the Indian-poet and a series of Yiddish translations of Indian chants that appeared in the modernist journal Shriftn in the 1920s. In the third chapter, "Red Jews," Rubinstein considers the work of Jewish writers from the left, including Tillie Olsen, Michael Gold, Nathanael West, John Sanford, and Howard Fast, and in chapter 4, "Henry Roth, Native Son," Rubinstein focuses on Henry Roth's complicated appeals to Indianness. The final chapter, "First Nations," addresses contemporary contestations between Jews and Indians over cultural and territorial sovereignty, in literary and political discourse as well as in museum spaces. As Rubinstein considers how Jews used the figure of the Indian to feel "at home" in the United States, she enriches ongoing discussions about the ways that Jews negotiated their identity in relation to other cultural groups. Students of Jewish studies and literature will enjoy the unique insights in Members of the Tribe.
Members Only
by Julie TibbottThroughout human history, people have banded together to pass on traditions, climb the social ladder, and often just have a good time. And sometimes, keeping other people out is part of the fun. (Every hot club needs a velvet rope, after all.) But some of these groups have proved so exclusive and secretive that we on the outside can't resist some speculation. Wouldn't you like to know what they're really up to? No need for secret handshakes or passwords-- Members Only is your all-access guide to the secret societies, clandestine cults, and exclusive associations that you've always wondered about. Profiling over fifty groups, from the centuries-old Freemasons to the snooty Skull and Bones Society to a club just for magicians, this book reveals the secrets of these mysterious organizations -- and even tells you how to join up. Get ready to go underground and explore secret worlds that are sometimes shocking, sometimes frightening, and always fascinating.
Membership Matters: Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and Assimilation
by Charles E. LawlessBased on a national study, this book shows how churches can move both new and old members into ministry by implementing effective new members' classes.
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art: Theologies of Lament and Hope (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)
by Taylor WorleyThis book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon’s works invite fresh readings of the New Testament’s narration of the betrayal of Christ, and Beuys’ works can be appreciated for the ways they evoke Resurrection to envision possible futures for Germany in the aftermath of war. Gober’s immaculate sculptures and installations serve to create alternative religious environments, and these places are both evocative of his Roman Catholic upbringing and virtually haunted by the ghosts of his excommunication from that past. Lastly and perhaps most problematically, Hirst has built his brand as an artist from making jokes about death. By opening fresh arenas of dialogue and meaning-making in our society and culture today, the rich humanity of these artworks promises both renewed depths of meaning regarding our exit from this world as well as how we might live well within it for the time that we have. As such, it will be a vital resource for all scholars in Theology, the Visual Arts, Material Religion and Religious Studies.
Memoir From Antproof Case: A Novel
by Mark HelprinAn old man recounts the raucous adventure of his life through war, obsession and the 20th century in this &“rapturous and melancholy new novel&” (The New York Times).An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs. Call him Oscar Progresso—or whatever else you like. He sits in a mountain garden in Niterói, overlooking the ocean. As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, an epic adventure unfolds. We learn that he was a World War II ace who was shot down twice, an investment banker who met with popes and presidents, and a man who was never not in love.But that doesn&’t begin to cover our narrator&’s immense and fascinating journey through the 20th century. He was also the thief of the century, a murderer, and a protector of the innocent. All his life he waged a valiant, losing, one-man battle against the world&’s most insidious enslaver: coffee. The acclaimed author of Winter&’s Tale and A soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin now offers &“a tour de force that combines adventure, romance and an overview of the 20th century into a bittersweet narrative&” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Memoir of an Imam: The Extraordinary Spiritual Journey of Moussa Kone
by Moussa Kone“One day I asked my father, a respected Imam, a question: ‘If, this evening, you or I died, would we go to heaven?’ He replied: ‘Son, I don’t know, and we cannot know before our deeds, good and evil, are weighed on the scale of deeds.’ Thus stirred by an ardent desire for certitude for the fate of my soul, I threw myself into a thorough study of both the Koran and the Bible, the results of which I recount in this book.” Follow Moussa as he relates the turbulent and supernatural events that led to his meeting with Almighty God. His inspiring journey testifies to the extraordinary manner in which the Creator reveals Himself to each and every person who searches for Him sincerely and with all their heart.
A Memoir of Mary Ann The Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home
by Dominican Nuns Flannery O'ConnorRecounts the surprisingly rich years a lively, wise child spent as a cancer patient in a home run by Dominican nuns.
Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century (Volume #1)
by Pauline Wengeroff Shulamit S. MagnusIn Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life. Translated by Shulamit S. Magnus.
Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
by Pauline Wengeroff translated by Shulamit S. MagnusPauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia. Wengeroff (1833– 1916), a perceptive, highly literate social observer, tells a gripping tale of cultural transformation, situating her narrative in the experience of women and families. In Volume Two, Wengeroff claims that Jewish women were capable and desirous of adopting the best of European modernity but were also wedded to tradition, while Jewish men recklessly abandoned tradition and forced their wives to do the same. The result was not only marital and intergenerational conflict but also catastrophic cultural loss, with women's inability to transmit tradition in the home leading to larger cultural drift. Two of Wengeroff's children converted when faced with anti-Jewish educational and professional discrimination, unwilling to sacrifice secular ambitions and visions for the sake of a traditional culture they did not know. Memoirs is a tale of loss but also of significant hope, which Wengeroff situates not in her children but in a new generation of Jewish youth reclaiming Jewish memory. To them, she addresses her Memoirs, giving an "orphaned youth"— orphaned of their past and culture— a "grandmother."
Memoirs of a Happy Failure
by Alice HildebrandAlice von Hildebrand is a household name to many who know her from her countless EWTN appearances, her books, and her extensive articles and essays. What is little known is the story of her life, notably the thirty-seven years she spent at Hunter College in New York City. <p><p> There, despite systematic opposition she left a mark on a generation of students through her defense of truth with reason, wit, and love. By showing her students how truth fulfills the deepest longings of the heart, she liberated countless students from the oppressive relativism of the day, enabling many of them to find their way to God. <p> Memoirs of a Happy Failure is a fascinating and essential glimpse into the life of one of contemporary Catholicism’s most compelling minds. It is the story of courage, faith, and the grace of God acting in the world.
Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist: A Life of Activism through Dialogue
by Debbie WeissmanFor many people, "observant Jew," "feminist," and "interfaith pioneer" are not necessarily words they would put together in the same sentence. And yet, in this book by Dr. Debbie Weissman, each is a vitally important aspect of a dynamic and passionate life. Between 2008 and 2014, Weissman broke new ground by serving two terms as the first Jewish woman president of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ). On her quest to do interfaith work, she tells about meeting people from other religions and the unique friendships that ensue. Weissman does not have a ringside seat to history; she is in the ring itself, having created institutions and movements in areas such as interfaith relations, women's education, Israeli peace initiatives, a new prayer community, and much more. Her engaging journey - related with humor, grace, and style - discovers meaning and hope in the life of a pessimist.
Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation
by Yossi Klein HaleviThe poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers—a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation that speaks to a new generation struggling to understand what it means to be Jewish in America.The child of a Holocaust survivor, Yossi Klein Halevi grew up in 1960s Brooklyn perceiving reality through the lens of his family’s brutal past. Increasingly identifying with their history of suffering, he regarded the non-Jewish world with fear and loathing. Determined to take action—and seek retribution—he became a disciple of the late rabbi Meir Kahane and a member of the radical fringe of the American Jewish community.In this wry and moving account, Halevi explores the deep-rooted anger of his adolescence and early adulthood that fueled his increasingly aggressive activism. He reveals how he started to question his beliefs—and his self-inflicted suffering as a hostage of history—and see the world from his own clear perspective.As a journalist and author, Halevi has dedicated himself to fostering interfaith reconciliation. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist explains how such a transformation can happen—giving hope that peaceful coexistence between faiths is possible.
Memoirs of a Positivist (Routledge Revivals)
by Malcolm QuinFirst published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It especially elaborates on the influence of the Positivist movement in the religious life of people and the manners in which scientific reasons were sought for religious beliefs. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy, religion and history.
Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider
by Suzanne Clores'Speaking practically, exploring six different spiritual paths is not the fastest nor the simplest route to the essence of one's inner being. But taking an assortment of back-roads provided me with a variety of experiences and put me in contact with many women pursuing the same end: individual connection with God. ... Most impressively, each woman I met was able to move beyond the first and perhaps the greatest obstacle, doubt, and approach the endlessly demanding feat of keeping her desire and passion alive and in focus." From the introduction: In Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider, Suzanne Clores leads us through her struggle to bring spirituality into her life. While hers is a personal quest, it also reflects that of a whole generation of young people who are cut off from spirituality yet long for it in some vague, unarticulated way. Out of college and in the workforce, Suzanne Clores identifies the longing she feels as a spiritual yearning, but like many of her peers she has a difficult time wholeheartedly embracing any religion. In this book, she presents a moving account of a pilgrimage across America that led her to a variety of religious traditions: Buddhism, Wicca, Yoga, Sufism, Shamanism, and Voodoo. Along the way, she encounters individuals who have embraced these "outsider" traditions, each of whom she follows, at least for a time, in hope of finding her own spiritual path. Cultivating a spiritual practice while living among hip, urbane Generation X-ers is "as unpopular as letter writing," she muses. Yet she perseveres, and her story, along with the stories of the people she meets, offers us a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of the next generation of seekers who are looking for meaning in a secular world.
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories
by Gregor Von RezzoriThe elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century's ugliest years. Central to each episode is what might be called the narrator's Jewish Question. He is no Nazi. To the contrary, he is apolitical, accommodating, cosmopolitan. He has Jewish friends and Jewish lovers, and their Jewishness is a matter of abiding fascination to him. His deepest and most defining relationship may even be the strange dance of attraction and repulsion that throughout his life he has conducted with this forbidden, desired, inescapable, imaginary Jewish other. And yet it is just this relationship that has blinded him to--and makes him complicit in--the terrible realities of his era.Lyrical, witty, satirical, and unblinking, Gregor von Rezzori's most controversial work is an intimate foray into the emotional underworld of modern European history.
Memoirs of an Exorcist
by Father Gabriele Amorth Marco TosattiFather Amorth was chief exorcist of the Vatican for twenty-five years, but few people know that before he became a priest, Amorth served in the pro-Allied Italian forces during World War II and earned a law degree. He discovered his true calling when he met the exorcist Father Candido. Ever since, he has been face-to-face with the devil every day, relieving thousands of believers of their suffering through religious rites and the power of prayer. Memoirs of an Exorcist recounts Amorth's many impressive stories of healing and faith, as gathered by famed journalist Marco Tosatti.
The Memoirs Of God: History, Memory, And The Experience Of The Divine In Ancient Israel
by Mark S. SmithThis insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine—Yahweh as well as other deities.
The Memoirs of Jin Luxian
by Jin Luxian William Hanbury-TenisonJin Luxian is considered by many to be one of China's most controversial religious figures. Educated by the Jesuits, he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained priest in 1945 before continuing his studies in Europe. In 1951 he made the dangerous decision to return to the newly established People's Republic of China. He became one of the many thousands of Roman Catholics who suffered persecution. Convicted of counter-revolutionary activities and treason, he was imprisoned for 27 years and only released in 1982. His subsequent decision to accept the government's invitation to resume his prior role as head of the Shanghai Seminary and then assume the title of Bishop of Shanghai without Vatican approval shocked many Catholics. Now, some thirty years later, still serving as Bishop and regarded as one of the leading figures in the Chinese Catholic Church, Jin recounts formative experiences that provide essential insight into the faith and morality that sustained him through the turbulent years of the late 20th Century. In this volume of memoirs Jin recalls his childhood and education, his entry into the Society of Jesus and formation as a priest, his return to China, imprisonment and, finally, his release and return to Shanghai.
The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer
by Louis Bouyer John Pepino Peter KwasniewskiLouis Bouyer was a major figure in the Church of the last century. These memoirs, which Bouyer wrote in a humble and humorous vein—though without withholding his notoriously sharp pen when needed—allow the reader to enter with him into the great events that shook the Church and the world during the era of upheavals and transformations through which he lived. They amount to an intelligent, sensitive, and pious man’s fascinating chronicle and deep reflection on Christianity’s life and travails in a world committed to modernity. <p><p>Bouyer here tells us the full and varied story of a life devoted to the discovery of the sources and Tradition of the Church in doctrine, spirituality, liturgy, and scripture.
The Memoirs of St. Peter
by Michael PakalukThis new translation of the Gospel of Mark reveals startling nuances and idiosyncracies in the original Greek text that have traditionally been camoflauged by English translations. Dr. Michael Pakaluk, who previously translated Artistotle's Nichomachean Ethics for Oxford, presents his new translation alongside a fascinating commentary that draws forth new meaning and context about the Gospel, which is long understood to be Mark's retelling of what St. Peter told him first-hand.
Memorable Stories and Parables by Boyd K. Packer
by Boyd K. PackerThis volume brings together 26 more of the most memorable stories and parables of President Boyd K Packer. Read and enjoy treasures such as The Mediator, Spiritual Crocodiles, Channeling Your Thoughts, Balm of Gilead, Of Cars and Dates, and more. President Packer follows the Lord's injunction to "Teach ye diligently" and does so in a manner that is clear and lasting. These short stories are great for daily inspiration and will be life lessons that are hard to forget.
La memoria de la sangre
by Gabriela RodríguezA través del relato de su propio recorrido espiritual y del estudio del tarot y la psicomagia, Gabriela Rodríguez -discípula de Alejandro Jodorowsky- nos muestra el camino a la sanación. La sanación de las personas está relacionada no solo con el cuerpo, sino también con el espíritu. Para acceder a él, Gabriela Rodríguez se ha preparado durante décadas con chamanes en distintas partes del mundo, que la han llevado a manejas conocimientos que no están al alcance de todos. A través del relato del encuentro con sus maestros, la autora nos muestra el camino que la llevó a trabajar en lo inconsciente usando el tarot, la psicomagia y la metagenealogía. Aquí explica como el arte y la creatividad se convierten en instrumentos para que las personas puedan sanar a través de actos simbólicos, y nos enseña que es posible cambiar la información que heredamos de vuestro árbol familiar para superar traumas y acercarnos a la plenitud. Gabriela Rodríguez -la única discípula chilena de Alejandro Jodorowsky- nos invita a entrar en el "mundo oculto, ese que está detrás de lo visible" y que significó para ella una mutación profunda que le reveló su oficio: "ser una curandera urbana y realizar actor para sanar".
Memorial del convento
by José SaramagoEn esta obra José Saramago realiza una incursión en la narrativa histórica. El volumen recorre un periodo de aproximadamente 30 años en la historia de Portugal durante la época de la Inquisición. El planteamiento registra no sólo el hecho histórico, sino que reconstruye la vida popular de la época, en un recorrido por los diferentes pueblos de los alrededores de Lisboa. El rey D. Joâo V necesitaba herederos y, como doña Maria Ana no los concebía, él promete levantar un convento en Mafra a cambio de tener herederos. Simultáneamente, asistimos a la vida cotidiana del pueblo a través de la visión de un soldado que perdió la mano izquierda en la guerra contra los españoles. En un auto de la Inquisición, Baltasar conoce a Blimunda, una mujer con poderes mágicos que ve dentro de las personas, y cuya madre fue desterrada a Angola por tener poderes semejantes. Desafiando los rigores de la religión, ambos se casan mediante un ritualde sangre. Baltasar se convierte en ayudante del padre Bartolomeu, que, bajo la protección del rey, trabajaba en inventar una máquina para volar. La máquina de volar simboliza dos ideales: los cultos, representados por el propio padre Bartolomeu, y los populares, personificados en Blimunda y Baltasar. Una narración directa, sin concesiones, vigorosa y rica. Saramago da al lenguaje de esta novela el tono de las narraciones históricas y realiza con él verdaderos malabarismos sintácticos.
Memorializing the Unsung: Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism (World Christianity)
by Elochukwu Uzukwu, C.S.Sp.By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; the Capuchins sought to establish the sacraments and a line to Rome in a lay-led church already suffused with an enduring, creative, and complex theological culture. In Memorializing the Unsung, Elochukwu Uzukwu uses the framework of this “ancient” Kongo Catholicism to explore European dependence on enslaved Kongo Catholics and the unconscionable Capuchin and Spiritan participation in the slave trade at large—a practice denounced by the lone voices of Capuchin Epifanio de Moirans and Spiritan Alexandre Monnet. Reconstructing the church that missionaries and Kongo Catholics built together on the foundations of local religion, Memorializing the Unsung contrasts the dignity denied the Kongo Catholics with the freedom they nonetheless performed. Uzukwu is particularly deft in tracing the agency of Kongo elites and laypeople from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth, carefully evaluating their deliberate engagements with southern Europeans, the role of the maestri (translator-catechists) in guiding the faithful, and the ultimate development of a unique theological vocabulary endorsed by the Kikongo catechism.Without the support and creativity of these unsung lay Catholics across west-central and eastern Africa, Uzukwu shows, the European missions in the region would have failed. Even while enslaved, the Kongo Slaves of the Church and the eastern African Slaves of the Mission served as mediators, co-creators, and reinventors of their world.
Memorias de dos hijos: La historia tras bastidores de un padre, dos hijos y un asesinato escandaloso
by John MacarthurEn Memorias de dos hijos, uno de los maestros de la Biblia más queridos de Estados Unidos le hace profundizar en Lucas 15 como nunca nadie lo ha hecho, revelando apreciaciones perspicaces de la cultura de la época de Jesús con un desenlace inolvidable.La parábola del hijo pródigo (Lucas 15.11-32) se ha predicado desde casi todos los púlpitos del mundo y es conocida por muchos que leen y aprecian la Biblia. La historia es muy poderosa porque representa, en términos claros e inspiradores, nuestra lucha con el pecado, la necesidad de arrepentimiento humilde y la inagotable misericordia y amor del Padre. Lamentablemente, muchos cristianos dirían que no tienen nada nuevo que aprender de esta joya de las Escrituras. Ha perdido su brillo. Pero en Memorias de dos hijos, John MacArthur restaura el resplandor de este pasaje, ofreciendo un fascinante trasfondo histórico y revelando un sorprendente final que los lectores nunca han oído antes.