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Author: Otto Von Busch Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350179922 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 217
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What is the relationship between the soul, or inner life, and what we wear in the making of identity and belief? What bearing do religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance have on the way in which we dress? Why have more traditional religious practices been so prescriptive about body adornment? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites. Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other. By moving beyond traditional, social scientific, and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment the book presents a variety of disciplinary approaches from across regional, social, and religious locations. Contentious and challenging, as well as academically rigorous, the book's diverse range of contributors - from fashion and religious studies scholars, to designers, activists, monastics, and journalists - explore the relationship between religion and fashion, extending the meanings and possibilities of both dress and spirituality. Combining interviews and personal stories with more traditional theoretical analysis, Silhouettes of the Soul offers new ways of looking at the relationship between religion, personal convictions, and self-expression - our sense of self and our sense of fashion.
Author: Otto Von Busch Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350179922 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
What is the relationship between the soul, or inner life, and what we wear in the making of identity and belief? What bearing do religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance have on the way in which we dress? Why have more traditional religious practices been so prescriptive about body adornment? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites. Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other. By moving beyond traditional, social scientific, and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment the book presents a variety of disciplinary approaches from across regional, social, and religious locations. Contentious and challenging, as well as academically rigorous, the book's diverse range of contributors - from fashion and religious studies scholars, to designers, activists, monastics, and journalists - explore the relationship between religion and fashion, extending the meanings and possibilities of both dress and spirituality. Combining interviews and personal stories with more traditional theoretical analysis, Silhouettes of the Soul offers new ways of looking at the relationship between religion, personal convictions, and self-expression - our sense of self and our sense of fashion.
Author: Debra McLain Publisher: Creative Talents Unleashed ISBN: 9780996829212 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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Silhouettes of My Soul, is like reading private love letters in the form of poetry. Silhouettes will resonate with all men and women in the pursuit of love and happiness. Striving for personal growth, Debra writes of relationships, nature, and the universe.
Author: Barry Sanders Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1582436657 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. From the Industrial Revolution, where the disappearance of care for human beings begins slowly, to our own age, where societal events require less person–to–person interaction, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with little but a continuous bombardment of "information," demands on our attention, that brings us out of our world and into one of inhumanity and abstraction. We are losing entirely any palpable attachment to our physical reality. And we've also lost the original sense of a collective consciousness. This loss has been fomenting for two centuries now, dating back to the rise of European powers and worldwide colonization. This has led to the notion that we need to define what is torture, an idea that not long ago would have seemed absurd, and need to pick our poisons among several forms of radical fundamentalisms, each one not only a threat to the other but a threat to humanity itself. From Edgar Allen Poe to Abu Ghraib, this is a fascinating and worrisome story, impeccably researched and compellingly written.
Author: D. Douglas Merrell Publisher: ISBN: 9781432776770 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 240
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"Poetry to Lift Your Soul" Day-to-day life can be challenging. Sometimes it can be good to leave reality behind, and find a way to connect with the eternal loving source, refreshing your soul and your mind. In Silhouette of a Soul, poet and mystic D. Douglas Merrell will take your hand and share with you a journey through time and nature - words bursting and blossoming from thirty years of adventures in the wild. You will see nature as a friend, and flow with the harmony of the elements. You will see beyond the physical, as Merrell's words help you to reach the heavens. If you'd like to see the birds dance, and feel the heartbeat of a thousand angels' wings, then pick up this book and there are songs you can sing. Descriptive Magick waits for you and lifts your spirit wherever your imagination flows. Laugh with the changes of seasons, and rejoice in the sun's healing light. Find your source of inner light and smile with delight. Merrell knows that we are all on a journey, and his poetry is a gift to raise your spirit to a higher place where love and light surround you and make you free. If you dream of soaring on wings over the mountains, or sitting by the edge of a pond, listening with open heart to all that comes, then this book is the treasure you have been seeking. About the Author D. Douglas Merrell lives in a small town in New Hampshire, where he was raised on a dairy farm. He has a deep love of nature and spirituality, and he writes about adventures both real and mystical, as well as about nature and the beauty in all things.
Author: Andrew Fagan Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9789042016415 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 244
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Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease, held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health, illness and disease to healing practices in contemporary society as well as patients' illness experiences.
Author: Michel Chaouli Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110688816 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 387
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Poetic critique – is that not an oxymoron? Do these two forms of behavior, the poetic and the critical, not pull in different, even opposite, directions? For many scholars working in the humanities today, they largely do, but that has not always been the case. Friedrich Schlegel, for one, believed that critique worthy of its name must itself be poetic. Only then would it stand a chance of responding adequately to the work of art. Taking Schlegel’s idea of poetische Kritik as a starting point, this volume reflects on the possibility of drawing these alleged opposites closer together. In light of current debates about the legacy of critique, it investigates whether a concept such as poetic critique (or poetic criticism) lends itself to enriching our intellectual practice by engaging with the poetic potential of criticism and the critical value of art and literature.
Author: Grace Butler Difalco Publisher: BalboaPress ISBN: 1452579938 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 94
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From my earliest memories, I have always felt God's presence in my life. Happy days or troubled ones, wherever I am on my journey, He is with me, and speaking to Him is as natural as breathing. We all come from God, and we return to Him. It is not the temple in which we worship or the colour of our skin, but the way we choose to live our lives. It's the colour of our hearts that matters, and there are only two colours - good choices and bad choices. My inspiration comes from life -the hopes, dreams, tragedies and triumphs of fellow humans and from my own spiritual journey. It comes from my feelings of being connected to the One who gave me life and to those who now walk silently among us. The ocean, a timeless opera, is always a source of inspiration for me and music that leaves me begging for more. Writing brings me closer to God, and if my words bring a little peace, joy or healing to others, then I am truly honoured.
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