Existiert Gott? Gibt es einen Gott, so wie er in der Bibel und von christlichen Religionen dargestellt wird? Fragen sind eine ausgezeichnete Hilfe, um Anworten zu finden.

New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West argues that New Age culture is part of a family of ideas, including utopianism, which construct alternative futures and drive revolutionary change. Nicholas Campion traces New Age ideas back to ancient cosmology, and questions the concepts of the Enlightenment and the theory of progress. He considers the contributions of the key figures of the 18th century, the legacy of the astronomer Isaac Newton and the Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg, as well as the theosophist, H.P. Blavatsky, the psychologist, C.G. Jung, and the writer and artist, Jose Arguelles. He also pays particular attention to the beat writers of the 1950s, the counterculture of the 1960s, concepts of the Aquarian Age and prophecies of the end of the Maya Calendar in 2012. Lastly he examines neoconservatism as both a reaction against the 1960s and as a utopian phenomenon. The New Age in the Modern West is an important book for anyone interested in countercultural and revolutionary ideas in the modern West.

Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "Guerrillero Heroico" has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba. This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore how an image can take on cultural force in diverse parts of the globe and legitimate varying positions and mass action in unexpected global political contexts. Analytically, the book develops a comparative analysis of how images become attached to a range of meanings that are absolutely inseparable from their contexts of use. Addressing the need for a fluid and responsive approach to the study of visual meaning-making, this book relies on multiple methodologies such as semiotics, research-creation, multimodal discourse analysis, ethnography and phenomenology. Each method has something to offer toward the understanding of the social and cultural work of images in our global cultures.

Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the "Guerrillero Heroico" has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba. This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore how an image can take on cultural force in diverse parts of the globe and legitimate varying positions and mass action in unexpected global political contexts. Analytically, the book develops a comparative analysis of how images become attached to a range of meanings that are absolutely inseparable from their contexts of use. Addressing the need for a fluid and responsive approach to the study of visual meaning-making, this book relies on multiple methodologies such as semiotics, research-creation, multimodal discourse analysis, ethnography and phenomenology and shows how each method has something to offer toward the understanding of the social and cultural work of images in our globally oriented cultures.

Falsidade e composto por cartas - ou capitulos - supostamente enviadas a um amigo. Diversos temas sao abordados a cada capitulo, desde alguns dos pecados capitais ate uma critica a crenca em Deus. Descrenca total sobre a vida e a humanidade permeia Falsidade, um livro sobrio. E nao ha sequer uma sentenca que enalteca o ser humano. A cada paragrafo, ser canalha e vil e o conselho dado aos leitores. Com sentencas fortes e palavras morbidamente bem escolhidas, RSCalvino aventura-se a falar sobre verdades profundas e sombrias da alma humana. Talvez verdades ja ditas por cada leitor, mas sorrateiramente encobertas por uma hipocrisia social ou, pior, por uma inconsciencia do proprio existir. Este livro sera dito como um dos mais odiados livros escritos pela humanidade, justamente por espelhar de forma crua e clara, com todas as palavras, as deformidades do espirito humano. Alguns poucos de seus amigos por vezes temem em dizer que o trabalho e fruto da influencia da Sociedade a qual tivera contato atraves de um amigo. Sem duvidas o livro mais odioso de todos os tempos

Estos escritos, hallados en Nag Hammadi, Egipto, en 1945, ademas de contar la verdadera historia del Grial, hablan del ministerio de Cristo en terminos muy humanos. De acuerdo con estos textos, Jesus vino al mundo a senalar la senda para encontrar el camino del conocimiento (de ahi la palabra gnosis). Esta serie de evangelios nos muestra que las raices del gnosticismo se caracterizan por ser una mezcla de las creencias estrictamente cristianas con creencias judaicas y orientales, cuya pretension es alcanzar el conocimiento de lo divino por medio de la intuicion.