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Was That You Boss
(Hardcover)
J Stephen Rhodes; Foreword by J Michael a Wright
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From the beginning of time, God has spoken to people in their
dreams. Through them he has reached out to both men of God?Isaiah,
Daniel, Jeremiah, Jacob, and his dream interpreter son, Joseph?and
ungodly men and women, like Pharaoh or Pontius Pilate's wife. Even
today, God has not stopped speaking to us in our dreams. We simply
stopped listening or being aware of Him.
More than twenty years ago, after God woke him up one night with
an incredible dream, author Manny Fernandez set off on a lifelong
journey to explore what could be learned from dreams. He made it
his mission to teach others how to remember their dreams and, with
God's help, interpret their meaning. In his guidebook, Fernandez
includes his own diary of dreams, associated Scriptures and
explanations, ways to remember and understand God's special
messages, an examination of parables, and his ideas for connecting
with God through dreams and prayer.
"Wake Up?God's Talking to You" is an innovative teaching tool
that guides spiritual seekers through all the ways God speaks to us
through dreams and brings us closer to Him.
In this groundbreaking book, based on in-depth ethnographic
research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli brings
to light the little known, and often marginalized, lives of female
Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Her
book offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in
India today, exploring a phenomenon she terms vernacular
asceticism. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices
of primarily "unlettered" female sadhus who come from a variety of
castes, Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that the female sadhus
whom DeNapoli knew experience asceticism in relational and
celebratory ways and construct their lives as paths of singing to
God. While the sadhus have combined ritual initiation with
institutionalized and orthodox orders of asceticism, they also draw
on the non-orthodox traditions of the medieval devotional
poet-saints of North India to create a form of asceticism that
synthesizes multiple and competing world views. DeNapoli suggests
that in the vernacular asceticism of the sadhus, singing to God
serves as the female way of being an ascetic. As women who have
escaped the dominant societal expectations of marriage and
housework, female sadhus are unusual because they devote themselves
to a way of life traditionally reserved for men in Indian society.
Female sadhus are simultaneously respected and distrusted for
transgressing normative gender roles in order to dedicate
themselves to a life of singing to the divine. Real Sadhus Sing to
God is the first book-length study to explore the ways in which
female sadhus perform and, thus, create gendered views of
asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text
practices, which DeNapoli characterizes as the sadhus' "rhetoric of
renunciation." The book also examines the relationship between
asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary
contexts. It brings together two disparate fields of study in
religious scholarship-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-through use of the
orienting metaphor of singing bhajans (devotional songs) to
understand vernacular asceticism in contemporary India.
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