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This clear and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as
Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a
natural place in Western society. Examining Taoist sacred texts
together with current scholarship, it surveys Taoism's ancient
roots, contemporary heritage and role in daily life.
From Taoism's spiritual philosophy to its practical perspectives on
life and death, self-cultivation, morality, society, leadership and
gender, Russell Kirkland's essential guide reveals the real
contexts behind concepts such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi.
The Reverend Howard Finster (1916 2001) was called the backwoods
William Blake" and the Andy Warhol of the South," and he is
considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and
visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the
intertwined artistic and religious significance of Finster's work
within the context of the American outsider art" tradition. Finster
began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was
not until he received a revelation from God at the age of sixty
that he began to make sacred art. A modern-day Noah who saw his art
as a religious crusade to save the world before it was too late,
Finster worked around the clock, often subsisting on a diet of
peanut butter and instant coffee. He spent the last years of his
life feverishly creating his environmental artwork called Paradise
Garden and what would ultimately number almost fifty thousand works
of bad and nasty art." This was visionary work that obsessively
combined images and text and featured apocalyptic biblical imagery,
flying saucers from outer space, and popular cultural icons such as
Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Henry Ford, Mona Lisa, and George
Washington. In the 1980s and 90s, he developed cult celebrity
status, and he appeared in the Venice Biennale and on the Tonight
Show. His work graced the album covers of bands such as R.E.M. and
Talking Heads. This book explores the life and religious-artistic
significance of Finster and his work from the personal perspective
of religion scholar Norman Girardot, friend to Finster and his
family during the later years of the artist's life.
This clear and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as
Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a
natural place in Western society. Examining Taoist sacred texts
together with current scholarship, it surveys Taoism's ancient
roots, contemporary heritage and role in daily life.
From Taoism's spiritual philosophy to its practical perspectives on
life and death, self-cultivation, morality, society, leadership and
gender, Russell Kirkland's essential guide reveals the real
contexts behind concepts such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi.
Bogota en la obra de Jose Antonio Osorio Lizarazo sintetiza el
procedimiento de analisis de la configuracion literaria de una
realidad empirica: la cuidad de Bogota que describe en su obra
narrativa Osorio Lizarazo no es una ciudad imaginada con retazos de
los aspectos sociales, sino una ciudad en un momento determinado de
su desarrollo que registra la investigacion sociologico-urbana.
Este procedimiento corrobora la certeza del tema de la obra de
Osorio Lizarazo, esto es, el hecho de que la ciudad latinoamericana
en general y Bogota en particular era una realidad que hasta
entonces se habia ignorado o pasado por alto. Con ello, Edison
Neira Palacio pone de presente el valor renovador de la obra de
Osorio Lizarazo: descubrio una realidad inmediata. La revaloracion
desprevenida y a la vez critica de la obra de Osorio Lizarazo da a
este trabajo el caracter de suscitacion seminal que, por lo tanto,
propone mas amplios y transparentes caminos para que la
historiografia literaria colombiana constituya a la vez una
contribucion a la tarea de desatar el complicado nudo con el que se
ha estrangulado la promesa bolivariana de la vida colombiana.
(Rafael Gutierrez Girardot) Contenido: La gran ciudad
latinoamericana - Bogota - Osorio Lizarazo.
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The Taoist Body (Paperback)
Kristofer Schipper; Translated by Karen C. Duval; Foreword by Norman Girardot
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The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the
least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most
inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part
because Western thought clings to the notion of the separation of
matter and spirit, body and soul. Taoism refuses this dualism and
considers the body's perfection as essential as the soul's
redemption is to Christianity.
Kristofer Schipper's elegant and lucid introduction to the
traditions of Taoism and the masters who transmit them will reward
all those interested in China and in religions. The result of over
twenty-five years of research, including eight years of fieldwork
in China, Schipper's book retraces, step by step, the way that
leads from Chinese shamanism and traditional village life to the
physical Tending Life techniques, which in turn lead to the
mysticism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Schipper shows the fundamental
unity underlying all aspects of Taoism as Taoism considers itself
to be. The social body--the community, the village, the
land--corresponds in all aspects to the physical body in Taoism. In
both of them the survival of humanity is decided here and now. "My
destiny is within me, not in Heaven!"
Title: L'Ordre americain de Cincinnatus en France: reglements et
correspondances de Washington.Author: Girardot, Auguste Theodore,
baron dePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on
Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01350700CollectionID:
CTRG94-B4380PublicationDate: 18000101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Title from caption.Collation: 50 p
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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