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This fascinating book explores how traumatic experience interacts
with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural and
the occult. Drawing upon trauma research, case study vignettes, and
psychoanalytic theory, it explains how therapists can use
literature, the arts, and philosophy to work with clients who feel
cursed and manifest self-sabotaging states. The book examines the
challenges that can arise when working with this client population
and illustrates how to work through them while navigating potent
transferences and projective identifications. It's an important
read for students, psychotherapists, and counselors in the mental
health field.
This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of
Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (3rd to 7th c. C.E.), providing
cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and
research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for
future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish, literary and
material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach
involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic
literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and
Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are
viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and
socio-economic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is
given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on
Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of
view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with
Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions and
organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of
local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious
spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western
Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but
also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia
Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and
life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The
Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a
critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current
scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish
Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and
Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art and Archaeology. It is
a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish
history.
The Africa Study Bible (ASB) is the most ethnically diverse,
singlevolume, biblical resource to date. Written by 350
contributors from 50 countries, it includes the Holy Bible: New
Living Translation, Anglicized, and more than 2,600 features that
illuminate the truth of Scripture with a unique, African
perspective. The Africa Study Bible is a totally new kind of Bible,
built from the ground up by scholars and pastors in Africa who see
the critical need to make Scripture relevant to our everyday lives.
Its an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history,
and culture.
• Continues to be an indispensable text for mental health
professionals and pastoral counsellors. • Updated according to
the latest empirical research and DSM-V. • Revised chapters
significantly cover issues regarding diversity and culture which
clergy may struggle with, as well as diagnostic interviewing and
cultural humility. • Written in a consistent, easy-to-follow
structure in each chapter includes case example, introduction, key
indicators, and recommendations • Updated citations and
references to psychological disorders throughout, with special
emphasis on the family. • helps pastors understand some of the
most widely used and evidence based treatments and what to look for
when referring to professionals (e.g., licensure, board
certification, specialty training and certification, etc.). •
highlights the limited role of medication for most mental health
difficulties and when its use is indicated. • Members of the
clergy are frequently the first person a parishioner seeks out for
support, guidance, and assistance when grappling with many of
life’s challenges and problems. Ensuring that members of the
clergy are appropriately trained to serve in this role is of vital
importance
Do you feel frazzled? Frantic? Fearful you haven't got enough? In a
world obsessed with more, where potential is maximised, and
busyness is glorified, another reality also exists: we all have
limits - and many of us are living at the edge of them. Why Less
Means More shows you how saying no to one thing might mean saying
yes to something far better. What would it look like to pursue less
success and more significance? To live with less complexity and
more clarity? To chase less of the 'extraordinary' and celebrate
more of the 'ordinary' moments that make up an extraordinary life?
Cathy Madavan, accomplished author and speaker, invites you to
leave your fear and franticness behind and discover more space,
simplicity and the truth that less really can lead to more.
Christianity Today 2018 Book Award Winner Respected New Testament
scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of
gender, which includes fresh perspectives on the most controverted
texts. Westfall interprets passages on women and men together and
places those passages in the context of the Pauline corpus as a
whole. She offers viable alternatives for some notorious
interpretive problems in certain Pauline passages, reframing gender
issues in a way that stimulates thinking, promotes discussion, and
moves the conversation forward. As Westfall explores the
significance of Paul's teaching on both genders, she seeks to
support and equip males and females to serve in their area of
gifting.
Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav
Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking
warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse
goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries wrought
terror and destruction from the Baltic to Galicia in the early
eleventh century. Thousands were put to the sword, enslaved or
ransomed. In England, Canterbury was sacked, its archbishop
murdered and London Bridge pulled down. The loot amassed from years
of plunder helped Olav win the throne of Norway, and a century
after his death he was proclaimed 'Eternal King' and has been a
national hero there ever since. Despite his bloodthirsty
beginnings, Olav converted to Christianity and, in a personal
vendetta against the old Norse gods, made Norway Christian too,
thereby changing irrevocably the Viking world he was born into.
Told with reference to Norse sagas, early chronicles and the work
of modern scholars, Desmond Seward paints an intensely vivid and
colourful portrait of the life and times of arguably the greatest
Viking of them all.
The first full, philosophical introduction to Descartes for many
years – competitors are either out of date or considerably higher
in level Descartes is the most important Western philosopher after
Plato and studied by virtually all philosophy students at some
point Explains and assesses Descartes’ most important ideas,
arguments and texts, particularly his Meditations Concerning First
Philosophy Ideal for anyone coming to Descartes for the first time
Additional features include a chronology, a glossary and annotated
further reading
The first time she opens her eyes, Eve gazes on One whose beauty
nearly blinds her, whose breath is in her lungs. Her Creator takes
her hand and gives her to one like her and yet different. Together,
she and Adam experience pure joy as they explore Eden. But her
favorite moments are when the Creator comes to walk with them, day
after day. Until everything changes. With one act of disobedience,
Eve finds that her world is no longer a friendly place. With
remorse in her heart, she must face the unknown future--the births,
the deaths, the sacrifices, the loss of the one home she has ever
known. Perhaps worst of all is the loss of trust, not only with her
Creator but with the man who shares her life. How will they ever
survive out of Eden? Bestselling biblical fiction author Jill
Eileen Smith imagines the life of the first woman to ever live,
unspooling a story of love, loss, and the promise of redemption.
An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the
first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature
Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis
and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples from the
Philippines, Mexico, North America and Europe Helps connect the
anthropology of drugs to issues highly relevant to professional
working in drug treatment, health, social work and mental health
• Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean in the Early
Middle Ages had a great influence on Italy. Without minimizing the
extent of the destruction that occurred in those centuries, this
book presents the annotated sources translated into English for
postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students about the way
Muslims and Christians perceived each other. • Providing students
with primary sources about the circulation of news about them, and
their knowledge of their opponents, this book clarifies the
relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval
Italy. • This book allows students provides students with a
fuller picture, not currently offered on the market. It enables
them to see the dynamic between Muslims and Christians in early
medieval Italy in a time of invasion and peace to better understand
the relationship between the two religions.
A richly written guide which can be used by individuals or groups,
alone or in tandem with The Twelve Steps--A Spiritual Journey. The
authors include approximately ten reflections on each step, each
with a Bible verse, a revealing lesson from their personal
experiences, and a short prayer to affirm the lesson.
'I'd always known that I was Brown. Black was different though; it
came announced. Black came with expectations, of rhythm and other
things that might trip me up.' Imani is a foundling. Rescued as a
baby and raised by nuns on a remote Northumbrian island, she grows
up with an ever-increasing feeling of displacement. Full of
questions, Imani turns to her shadow, Amarie, and her friend,
Harold. When Harold can't find the answers, she puts it down to
what the nuns call her "greater purpose". At nineteen, Imani
answers a phone call that will change her life: she is being called
to Accra after the sudden death of her biological mother. Past,
present, faith and reality are spun together in this enthralling
debut. Following her transition from innocence to understanding,
Imani's experience illuminates the stories we all tell to make
ourselves whole.
Street Smarts by Gregory Koukl helps Christians better engage in
productive conversations with those who challenge their convictions
on a variety of issues. A follow-up to Koukl's best-selling
Tactics, this book focuses on revealing the fundamental flaws in
common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then
provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by
offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide
believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations. Koukl begins by
explaining the important difference in evangelism between a harvest
approach (reaping) and a gardening approach (sowing). He then
provides an overview of the tactical game plan he uses to have
fruitful "gardening" conversations with those who are not yet
Christians. Subsequent chapters tackle specific areas of challenge
that Christians frequently face in discussions "on the street," as
it were--in those conversations with friends, family, or critics
that believers often avoid because they feel out of their element,
vulnerable, or exposed. With the specific challenges he addresses,
Koukl shows precisely how and why each falters. instructing the
reader in a lucid, well-organized, and easy-to-follow fashion. He
then provides a specific set of questions--the same questions Koukl
uses in his own encounters--that are embedded in sample
mini-dialogues the Christian can use to exploit those flaws in an
amicable, yet incisive, way. Some questions are used to get the
discussion moving forward in a disarming fashion. Others are aimed
more directly at the flaws or liabilities of the typical challenges
people raise. Questions encourage challengers to think more
carefully about their objections or consider problems with their
own views that they may not have considered or even have been aware
of. Street Smarts equips Christians to handle tough challenges in a
straightforward and user-friendly way. It provides the practical
tools they need to keep them in the driver's seat of otherwise
difficult and discomfiting conversations. It enables them to stand
up for Christ in a safe, genial, yet effective way.
The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul
Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's
first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical
letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and
rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the
Corinthian recipients. In a set of connected essays, he draws the
reader's attention to the letter's rootedness in the Hebrew
prophetic tradition, the intentional theological structure of
Paul's epistolary organization and the Near Eastern cultural
practices that inflect Paul's rhetorical performance. All of this
is brought to bear in teasing out the nature of Paul's response to
the critical situations facing the Corinthian community: racial,
ethnic and theological divisions, sexual misconduct, intimate
interaction with pagan practices and disputes about church
practices.
Do Quakers Pray is a short book for the Quaker Quicks series
that considers questions such as “What is prayer?” and explores
whether, when and how Quakers might pray. Do we pray together? Do
we pray alone?
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche; Introduction by Michael Tanner
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One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche
dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God.
Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in
false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and
subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose
their own 'will to power' upon the world.
The first textbook to focus on the history of lived Shi'ism in
South Asia Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia is an introduction to the
everyday life and cultural memory of Shi'i women and men, focusing
on the religious worlds of both individuals and communities at
particular historical moments and places in the Indian
subcontinent. Author Karen Ruffle draws upon an array primary
sources, images, and ethnographic data to present topical case
studies offering broad snapshots Shi'i life as well as microscopic
analyses of ritual practices, material objects, architectural and
artistic forms, and more. Focusing exclusively on South Asian
Shi'ism, an area mostly ignored by contemporary scholars who focus
on the Arab lands of Iran and Iraq, the author shifts readers'
analytical focus from the center of Islam to its periphery. Ruffle
provides new perspectives on the diverse ways that the Shi'a
intersect with not only South Asian religious culture and history,
but also the wider Islamic humanistic tradition. Written for an
academic audience, yet accessible to general readers, this unique
resource: Explores Shi'i religious practice and the relationship
between religious normativity and everyday religious life and
material culture Contextualizes Muharram rituals, public
performances, festivals, vow-making, and material objects and
practices of South Asian Shi'a Draws from author's studies and
fieldwork throughout India and Pakistan, featuring numerous color
photographs Places Shi'i religious symbols, cultural values, and
social systems in historical context Includes an extended survey of
scholarship on South Asian Shi'ism from the seventeenth century to
the present Everyday Shi'ism in South Asia is an important resource
for scholars and students in disciplines including Islamic studies,
South Asian studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history,
material culture studies, history, and gender studies, and for
English-speaking members of South Asian Shi'i communities.
God made you to be your truest, most authentic self. He's already
given you permission to live your life unapologetically--what are
you waiting for? Join pastor, Bible teacher, and women's ministry
leader Dr. Jackie Greene as she helps you cast off counterfeit
living and finally live freely in God. After years of struggling
with people-pleasing and living unauthentically, Dr. Jackie had a
revelation that God had designed her precisely the way he wanted
her--quirks and all. That message has changed her life, and in
Permission to Live Free she wants to use it to change yours, too.
Through her popular Permission Conferences, Permission World
Facebook group, newly launched podcast, Permission Talk, and Dig
Deep Bible studies, Dr. Jackie has already changed the lives of
thousands of women who were ready to start living the life they
were called to live. Permission to Live Free will give you the
tools and encouragement you need to: Not change who you are Not
settle Start right where you are Show up as the bold woman you were
created to be It's time to let go of what's holding you back from
living in the fullness of who God uniquely designed you to be. No
more counterfeit living--you were made for more! Let Dr. Jackie
show you the way. Praise for Permission to Live Free: "In a
world that celebrates sameness, Jackie Greene's ministry and
mission untether us from fear and give us permission to be the
unique individuals that God intended. Each chapter of this book
will shake you awake from the doldrums of comparison and
complacency and challenge you to live out your God-given design
freely and fully. Instead of melding seamlessly into the mold,
you'll discover the power of accepting your unique identity and
then surrendering it fully to Jesus Christ. More than ever before,
we need these words. And we need this work. Write on, Jackie. Write
on." --Priscilla Shirer, Bible teacher and New York Times
bestselling author
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