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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship
For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil
ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu
and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the
global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of
Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once
fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and
worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality,
Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious
practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental,
and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of
Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious
movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the
mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility
therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple
religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners
as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a
world on the edge.
Simple Prayer, Dramatic Life-Change
It's a timeless prayer that produces timely results Bruce Wilkinson
takes readers to 1 Chronicles 4:10 to discover how they can release
God's miraculous power and experience the blessings God longs to
give each of us. The life of Jabez, one of the Bible's most
overlooked heroes of the faith, bursts from unbroken pages of
genealogies in an audacious, fourpart prayer that brings him an
extraordinary measure of divine favor, anointing, and protection.
Readers who commit to offering the same prayer on a regular basis
will find themselves extravagantly blessed by God, and agents of
His miraculous power, in everyday life.
Banner Across Corner:
17 million Jabez series books in print
Do you want to be extravagantly blessed by God?
Are you ready to reach for the extraordinary? To ask God for the
"abundant" blessings He longs to give you? Join Bruce Wilkinson to
discover how the remarkable prayer of a little-known Bible hero can
release God's favor, power, and protection. You'll see how one
daily prayer can help you leave the past behind--and break through
to the life you were meant to live.
Story Behind the Book
When "The Prayer of Jabez" first released in 2000 and sold nine
million copies in two years, Bruce Wilkinson's mailbox was flooded
with countless personal stories of answered prayer. God's mighty
hand was using the prayer to change lives in both small and
dramatic ways. Such undeniable testimonies make it impossible to
ignore God's presence, active and alive today This repack meets the
demand that continues to ask for the original bestseller--now with
a stunning new look
The essay The Afro-Cuban Festival 'Day of the Kings""' by Fernando
Ortiz, founder of Afro-Cuban studies, describes how, as in Brazil,
Catholic priests and the colonial government as early as 1573
allowed and encouraged the African slaves to celebrate Epiphany,
the Festival of the Three Kings...Free people joined in and the
dances, music and costumes paraded by the various eyewitnesses
demonstrate how early and how immense were the African
contributions to what was to become the carnival of the African
Diaspora. ""Bettelheim's second essay, The Tumba Francesa and
Tajona of Santiago de Cuba,' describes two...groups which descend
from the Creole-speaking Hatians called Franceses. In their long
history of race pride, revolt and rebellion, is a previously
unknown revelation of diasporic history. The intense interplay of
sub-rosa and African-connected groups is perhaps the most important
revelation made by these essays.
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