Author: Gervée BarontePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The history of the soul
Author: Gervée BaronteThe Secret History of the Soul
Author: Richard SuggPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865931
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
What would Christianity be like without the soul? While most people would expect the Christian bible to reveal a highly traditional opposition of matter and spirit, the spirit forces of the Old and New Testaments are often surprisingly physical, dynamic, and practical, a matter of energy as much as ethics. The Secret History of the Soul examines the forgotten or suppressed models of body, soul, and human consciousness found in the literature, philosophy and scripture of the ancient and classical worlds. It shows how the spirit forces of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, and the Old and New Testaments tended to be quantities not entities, and to be closely bound up with the dynamic physical flux of the human body, rather than cleanly abstracted in some absolute immaterial realm. Forces such as menos and thymos, nephesh, pneuma and dynamis not only blurred the line between body and soul, but were potent and transferable, being used, in New Testament culture, to effect magical cures or bestow magical power. Related to this surprising lack of body-soul dualism is a lack of dualistic afterlife in either Homer or Hebrew scripture, where Hades and Sheol are the sole post-mortem destinations. The Secret History of the Soul restores the living strangeness of a spirit world filled with potent energy and practical magic, in cultures which had not yet glimpsed the abstracted soul of later Christianity.
A Cultural History of the Soul
Author: Kocku von StuckradPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553579
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines a fascination spanning philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the study of religion, as well as occultism and spiritualism, against the backdrop of the emergence of experimental psychology. He then explores how and why the United States witnessed a flowering of ideas about the soul in popular culture and spirituality in the latter half of the century. Von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements—ranging from Ernest Renan, Martin Buber, and Carl Gustav Jung to the Esalen Institute, deep ecology, and revivals of shamanism, animism, and paganism to Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Harry Potter franchise. Revealing how the soul remains central to a culture that is only seemingly secular, this book casts new light on the place of spirituality, religion, and metaphysics in Europe and North America today.
A Brief History of the Soul
Author: Stewart GoetzPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444395920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the brain sciences for the soul's existence Includes coverage of theories from key figures, such as Plato, Aquinas, Locke, Hume, and Descartes Unique in combining the history of ideas and the development of a powerful case for a non-reductionist, non-materialist account of the soul
A brief history of the soul, 6 sermons
Author: John HambletonA Brief History of the Soul: Being a Course of Six Sermons
Author: John Hambleton (M.A., Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Islington.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The History of the Soul, as Figured in Carové's Story Without an End
Author: Lucy Ann BushbyThe History of R & B and Soul Music
Author: Stuart A. KallenPublisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1420511335
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Rhythm and Blues, along with soul music has historically been written and produced by black Americans to reflect the African American experience in the United States. This book covers a range of styles within RandB, including boogie-woogie, Doo-Wop, jump blues, and 12-bar blues, Motown soul, 70s funk, urban contemporary, and hip hop soul.
World Soul
Author: James WilberdingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190913444
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and binds it together. This suggestion, once so wide-spread, may strike many of us today as strange and antiquated--in fact, there are few other concepts that, on their face, so capture the sheer distance between us and our philosophical inheritance. But the idea of a world soul has held so strong a grip upon philosophers' imaginations for over 2,000 years, that it continues to underpin and even structure how we conceive of time and space. The concept of the world soul is difficult to understand in large part because over the course of history it has been invoked to very different ends and within the frameworks of very different ontologies and philosophical systems, with varying concepts of the world soul emerging as a result. This volume brings together eleven chapters by leading philosophers in their respective fields that collectively explore the various ways in which this concept has been understood and employed, covering the following philosophical areas: Platonism, Stoicism, Medieval, Indian or Vedântic, Kabbalah, Renaissance, Early Modern, German Romanticism, German Idealism, American Transcendentalism, and contemporary quantum mechanics and panpsychism theories. In addition, short reflections illuminate the impact the concept of the world soul has had on a small selection of areas outside of philosophy, such as harmony, the biological concept of spontaneous generation, Henry Purcell, psychoanalysis, and Gaia theories.
The History of the Soul
Author: Gervee BarontePublisher:
ISBN: 9781585093243
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The author was a gifted psychic medium from England who was widely known for her skills. Her main talent was reading peoples' past lives and she developed a strong reputation for doing this accurately. This once rare book answers such questions as: How do we know that reincarnation is a fact? Exactly why do we reincarnate? What happens when the soul passes from this life into the next? Under normal circumstances, how long does it take before we come back in another life? Why do most of us not remember our past lives? These questions are answered clearly and straight to the point. Includes a section of letters from people who remember their past lives, and concludes with testimonials bearing witness to the skills of the author. These amazing stories will leave little doubt as to the reality of past lives.