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Divine Enjoyment

A Theology of Passion and Exuberance

By: Elaine Padilla

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Divine Enjoyment

A Theology of Passion and Exuberance

By: Elaine Padilla

This book’s theological and philosophical construction of a God of enjoyment poetically remaps divine love. Posing a critique to the Aristotelian unmoved mover whose intellective enjoyment is self-enclosed, this book’s affective tones depict a passionate God who intermingles with the cosmos to suffer and yearn out of love— even improper love. Divine Enjoyment leads the reader to a path of excess, first in the form of an intellective appetite that for Aquinas places God beyond the divine self, then more erotically in the silhouette of a lover whose love is like the delectable pain of mystics. Culminating with banqueting, fiesta, and carnival, the book deterritorializes God’s affect, conceiving of an expansively hospitable enjoyment stemming from many life forms With a renewed welcome for pleasure, the book also upholds a disruptive ethic. Ultimately, an immoderate God of love whose passionate enjoyment stems from the sufferings as well as joys of the cosmos offers another paradigm of lovingly enjoying oneself in relationship with passionate becomings that belong to many others.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823263584

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9780823263585

A People's Guide to Orange County

By: Elaine Lewinnek,Gustavo Arellano,Thuy Vo Dang

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A People's Guide to Orange County

By: Elaine Lewinnek,Gustavo Arellano,Thuy Vo Dang

At first encounter, Orange County can resemble the incoherent sprawl that geographer James Howard Kunstler named The Geography of Nowhere: a car-dependent, seemingly bland space designed most of all for efficient capitalist consumption. But it is somewhere, too, and learning its stories helps it become more than its boosters' slogans. Writers Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich, residents of Orange County's remote Modjeska Canyon, describe this whole county as "a much-constructed and -contrived locale, a pestered and paved landscape built and borne upon stories of human development... of destruction as well as, happily, of enduring wild places." In a similar vein, essayist D. J. Waldie, chronicler of the bordering suburb of Lakewood, asserts that "becoming Californian ... means locating yourself" in "habitats of memory" that connect ordinary, local areas with broader themes. Moving beyond sentimentality, nostalgia, and so many sales pitches that omit far too much, Waldie echoes Michel de Certeau's call to "awaken the stories that sleep in the streets." That is the goal of this book. Inspired by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng's A People's Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012), as well as the People's Guides to Boston and San Francisco that have followed it, we offer this guidebook for locals, tourists, students, and everyone who wants to understand where they really are. This book is organized with regional chapters, sorted roughly north to south by community. Within each city, sites are listed alphabetically. After the group of entries for each city, we recommend nearby restaurants as well as other sites of interest for visitors. Readers may explore this book geographically or use the thematic tours in the appendix to consider environmental politics, Cold War legacies, the politics of housing, LGBTQ spaces, or Orange County's carceral state. The appendix also contains suggestions for teachers using this book, engaging students in cognitive mapping, close reading, popular-culture analysis, and creating additional entries of people's history. While many local histories tend to focus on a few white settlers, this book places attention on the people, especially the subaltern ones who are hierarchically under others, including workers, people of color, youth, and LGBTQ individuals. No single book can represent an entire county, so we have chosen to concentrate on the lesser-known power struggles that have happened here and influenced the landscape that we all share. We could not include everyone, of course. We are mindful that other groups are currently creating more people's history on this landscape that we hope our readers will continue to explore. In Orange County, excavating the diverse past can be frowned upon or actively repressed by those invested in selling Orange County in the style of its booster Anglo settlers from 150 years ago. This book tells the diverse political history beyond the bucolic imagery of orange-crate labels. We hope it will inspire readers to further explore Orange County and reflect on even more sites that could be included in the ordinary, extraordinary landscape here"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520299957

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9780520299955

Ambassadors of Reconciliation: Diverse Christian practices of restorative justice and peacemaking

By: Ched Myers,Elaine Enns

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Ambassadors of Reconciliation: Diverse Christian practices of restorative justice and peacemaking

By: Ched Myers,Elaine Enns

Restorative justice refers to a social movement that seeks to repair interpersonal, communal, and social injustices without recourse to violence or retribution. Volume two analyzes the contemporary terrain of restorative justice and peacemaking in North America and profiles the exemplary work of nine practitioners who incarnate the scriptural vision in real life contexts of profound violence and injustice.

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Orbis Books

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1608331369

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9781608331369

Intimate Lies and the Law

By: Jill Elaine Hasday

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Intimate Lies and the Law

By: Jill Elaine Hasday

Jill Elaine Hasday's Intimate Lies and the Law won the Scribes Book Award from the American Society of Legal Writers "for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year" and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Family and Relationships. Intimacy and deception are often entangled. People deceive to lure someone into a relationship or to keep her there, to drain an intimate's bank account or to use her to acquire government benefits, to control an intimate or to resist domination, or to capture myriad other advantages. No subject is immune from deception in dating, sex, marriage, and family life. Intimates can lie or otherwise intentionally mislead each other about anything and everything. Suppose you discover that an intimate has deceived you and inflicted severe-even life-altering-financial, physical, or emotional harm. After the initial shock and sadness, you might wonder whether the law will help you secure redress. But the legal system refuses to help most people deceived within an intimate relationship. Courts and legislatures have shielded this persistent and pervasive source of injury, routinely denying deceived intimates access to the remedies that are available for deceit in other contexts. Intimate Lies and the Law is the first book that systematically examines deception in intimate relationships and uncovers the hidden body of law governing this duplicity. Hasday argues that the law has placed too much emphasis on protecting intimate deceivers and too little importance on helping the people they deceive. The law can and should do more to recognize, prevent, and redress the injuries that intimate deception can inflict.

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Oxford University Press

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0190905964

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9780190905965

Compromised Positions

Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City

By: Katherine Elaine Bliss

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Compromised Positions

Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City

By: Katherine Elaine Bliss

To illuminate the complex cultural foundations of state formation in modern Mexico, Compromised Positions explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940. Focusing on the public debates over legalized sexual commerce and the spread of sexually transmitted disease in the first half of the twentieth century, Katherine Bliss argues that political change was compromised time and again by reformers' own antiquated ideas about gender and class, by prostitutes' outrage over official attempts to undermine their livelihood, and by clients' unwillingness to forgo visiting brothels despite revolutionary campaigns to promote monogamy, sexual education, and awareness of the health risks associated with sexual promiscuity. In the Mexican public's imagination, the prostitute symbolized the corruption of the old regime even as her redemption represented the new order's potential to dramatically alter gender relations through social policy. Using medical records, criminal case files, and letters from prostitutes and their patrons to public officials, Compromised Positions reveals how the contradictory revolutionary imperatives of individual freedom and public health clashed in the effort to eradicate prostitution and craft a model of morality suitable for leading Mexico into the modern era.

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Penn State Press

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0271041331

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The Mystic Way of Evangelism

A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach

By: Elaine A. Heath

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The Mystic Way of Evangelism

A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach

By: Elaine A. Heath

Elaine Heath brings a fresh perspective to the theory and practice of evangelism by approaching it through contemplative spirituality. This thoroughly revised edition includes a new study guide. Praise for the First Edition Outreach Resource of the Year Award Winner "[Heath's] biographies of the mystics are inspiring, and her emphases on suffering and spiritual depth as the antidote to a prepackaged, method-obsessed, consumer-oriented evangelistic approach are refreshing."--Outreach

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Baker Academic

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1493410326

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9781493410323

Return of Black Douglas

By: Elaine Coffman

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Return of Black Douglas

By: Elaine Coffman

Coffman's writing is deft, capable, and evocative." -Publishers Weekly He'll help a woman in need, no matter where she came from... Alysandir Mackinnon rules his clan with a fair but iron fist. He has no time for softness or, as he sees it, weakness. But when he encounters a bewitching young beauty who may or may not be a dangerous spy, but is surely in mortal danger, he's compelled to help... She's always wondered if she was born in the wrong time... Thrown back in time to the tumultuous, dangerous Scottish Highlands of the sixteenth century, Isobella Douglas has a lot to learn about her ancestors, herself, and her place in the world. Especially when she encounters a Highland laird who puts modern men to shame... Each one has secrets to keep, until they begin to strike a chord in each other's hearts that's never been touched before... "With an eloquent pen, Ms. Coffman weaves words into a tapestry." -RT Book Reviews "Elaine Coffman touches the heart while making her readers laugh and cry." -Atlanta Journal

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402250762

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9781402250767

Leading with Love

Spiritual Disciplines for Practical Leadership

By: Elaine A. Robinson

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Leading with Love

Spiritual Disciplines for Practical Leadership

By: Elaine A. Robinson

The first principle of ministry leadership is love: love that emerges from life rooted in God. Healthy leadership requires a spirituality that enlivens us to move beyond rigid, dualistic frameworks. Robinson provides practical tools for cultivating spiritual practices that lead ministers into the world as agents of faith, hope, love, and justice.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506488285

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9781506488288

Rethinking Culture in Health Communication

Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters

By: Elaine Hsieh,Eric M. Kramer

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Rethinking Culture in Health Communication

Social Interactions as Intercultural Encounters

By: Elaine Hsieh,Eric M. Kramer

Rethinking Culture in Health Communication An interdisciplinary overview of health communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health contexts Patients, health professionals, and policymakers embody cultural constructs that impact healthcare processes. Rethinking Culture in Health Communication explores the ways in which culture influences healthcare, introducing new approaches to understanding social relationships and health policies as a dynamic process involving cultural values, expectations, motivations, and behavioral patterns. This innovative textbook integrates theories and practices in health communication, public health, and medicine to help students relate fundamental concepts to their personal experiences and develop an awareness of how all individuals and groups are shaped by culture. The authors present a foundational framework explaining how cultures can be understood from four perspectives—Magic Consciousness, Mythic Connection, Perspectival Thinking, and Integral Fusion—to examine existing theories, social norms, and clinical practices in health-related contexts. Detailed yet accessible chapters discuss culture and health behaviors, interpersonal communication, minority health and healthcare delivery, cultural consciousness, social interactions, sociopolitical structure, and more. The text features examples of how culture can create challenges in access, process, and outcomes of healthcare services and includes scenarios in which individuals and institutions hold different or incompatible ethical views. The text also illustrates how cultural perspectives can shape the theoretical concepts emerged in caregiver-patient communication, provider-patient interactions, social policies, public health interventions, and other real-life settings. Written by two leading health communication scholars, this textbook: Highlights the sociocultural, interprofessional, clinical, and ethical aspects of health communication Explores the intersections of social relationships, cultural tendencies, and health theories and behaviors Examines the various forms, functions, and meanings of health, illness, and healthcare in a range of cultural contexts Discusses how cultural elements in social interactions are essential to successful health interventions Includes foundational overviews of health communication and of culture in health-related fields Discusses culture in health administration, moral values in social policies, and ethics in medical development Incorporates various aspects and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as a cultural phenomenon through the lens of health communication Rethinking Culture in Health Communication is an ideal textbook for courses in health communication, particularly those focused on interpersonal communication, as well as in cross-cultural communication, cultural phenomenology, medical sociology, social work, public health, and other health-related fields.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119496101

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9781119496106

How Stories Change Us

A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life

By: Elaine Reese

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How Stories Change Us

A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life

By: Elaine Reese

In recent years, gold-standard experimental evidence on the benefits of reading fiction has exploded. Why do we love stories from books, TV and movies, and videogames? What do fictional stories have to do with stories from real life? How do stories impact our own and our children's brain development, reading skills, social understanding, and well-being? In How Stories Change Us, Elaine Reese integrates the latest scientific research on stories from fiction (books, TV shows and movies, videogames) with stories from real life (our personal experiences, including on social media) across the lifespan. The book offers an authoritative yet accessible overview of the new interdisciplinary science of stories, told by a developmental psychologist and autobiographical memory expert with over thirty years of experience conducting research on stories. Throughout, Reese adopts a developmental perspective by tracing the impact of stories from pre-birth to old age. Drawing upon illustrative examples from her 20-year longitudinal study Origins of Memory as well as from her own life, Reese synthesizes cutting-edge research on the benefits and pitfalls of stories and offers practical tips for parents, teachers, librarians, and policymakers. Reese concludes that people have a preferred fictional story delivery system, whether it's reading, watching, or gaming, and she advocates for a more integrated science of stories to allow us to better choose the stories we consume and tell.

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Oxford University Press

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0197747922

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9780197747926

Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Poetry and Place

By: Elaine T. James

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs

Poetry and Place

By: Elaine T. James

In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and "culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

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Oxford University Press

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0190619031

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9780190619039

Basic Student Charges at Postsecondary Institutions

Academic Year 1990-91 : Tuition and Required Fees and Room and Board Charges at 4-year, 2-year, and Public Less-than-2-year Institutions

By: P. Elaine Kroe

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Basic Student Charges at Postsecondary Institutions

Academic Year 1990-91 : Tuition and Required Fees and Room and Board Charges at 4-year, 2-year, and Public Less-than-2-year Institutions

By: P. Elaine Kroe

This report contains a comprehensive listing of basic student charges for academic year 1990-91 at over 4,700 4-year, 2-year, and public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions. Typical tuition and required fees are provided for in-state and out-of-state students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, along with the costs for room and board, and the number of meals per week covered by the board charge. Tables give summary national statistics on tuition and required fees for the academic year 1990-91 at postsecondary institutions. Data are also presented on tuition and required fees and room and board charges at individual institutions. These listings are divided into three sections: (1) 4-year institutions (offering a bachelor's degree or higher); (2) 2-year institutions (offering a postsecondary award of at least 2 but less than 4 academic years; and (3) public less-than-2-year institutions (offering a postsecondary award of less than 2 academic years). Schools are listed alphabetically by state within each section. Listings for schools in outlying areas, such as Puerto Rico, follow the state listings. At the beginning of each state listing are state averages for the various charges. A glossary presents definitions for 15 key terms. (JB)

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016036129X

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Women Analyze Women

In France, England, and the United States

By: Elaine Baruch,Elaine Hoffman Baruch,Lucienne J. Serrano

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Women Analyze Women

In France, England, and the United States

By: Elaine Baruch,Elaine Hoffman Baruch,Lucienne J. Serrano

Presented here is a new form of psychoanalysis, one that is centered on women as seen by women. Women Analyze Women contains interviews with nineteen of the most prominent and innovative women analysts and writers. The authors have persuaded them to speak freely on topics such as feminism, sexuality, love, gender differences, and sometimes their lives as anlysts and analysands, political activists, wives, and mothers. Personal and intimate, these sessions cut across theoretical barriers and allow the analysts to speak directly and candidly, as the following excerpt from the interview with JOyce McDougall shows: "Men and women deal with tender and erotic feelings differnetly. If I speek in very simple terms, it seems to me that women are constatnly eager to stabilize their love relationships and within those, their sexual relationships. They are always terrified of abandonment, rejection, and loss. The men are terrified of getting caught. It is a wonder that the sexes ever get together at all. Men are frantic about getting trapped, and women are frantic about being left." The book offfers intriguing, provocative, and stimulating discussions of critical issues, revealng a number of startling differences and remarkable similarities among the more avant-garde French anlaysts and the more tarditional Anglo-American schools.

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NYU Press

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0814711707

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9780814711705

Naked Faith

The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer

By: Elaine A Heath

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Naked Faith

The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer

By: Elaine A Heath

Phoebe Palmer's honour was lost posthumously, for within a few decades after her death her name all but disappeared. Palmer's sanctification theology was separated from its apophatic spiritual moorings, even as her memory was lost. To this day the Motherof the Holiness Movement still awaits her place of recognition as a Christian mystic equal to Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, or Therese of Lisieux. This book locates Palmer's life and thought within the great Christian mystical traditions, identifying her importance within Methodism and the church universal. It also presents a Wesleyan theological framework for understanding and valuing Christian mysticism, while connecting it with the larger mystical traditions in Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox communions. While Palmer was a powerful revivalist in her own day, in many ways she could be the patron saint for contemporary Methodists who are drawn to the new monasticism and who long for the renewal of the church. Saint Phoebe is precisely the one who can help Methodists envision new forms of Christian community, mission, and witness in a postmodern world.

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James Clarke & Company

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0227903315

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9780227903315

These Three

The Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love

By: Elaine A. Robinson

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These Three

The Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love

By: Elaine A. Robinson

These Three reclaims the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love from a Protestant, scriptural perspective. Robinson surveys the current state of the church and the decline of morality and civility in American society; explores the history of the virtues from Greek thought through Aquinas and focuses on three virtues in order to concede that contemporary churches must reclaim and teach the interrelationship of the virtues as our lifelines to God and the good life.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608992330

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9781608992331

A Jury of Her Peers

Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

By: Elaine Showalter

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A Jury of Her Peers

Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

By: Elaine Showalter

An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.

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Vintage

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1400034426

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9781400034420

We Were the Least of These

Reading the Bible with Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By: Elaine A. Heath

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We Were the Least of These

Reading the Bible with Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By: Elaine A. Heath

Much of what is written about abuse and the Bible focuses on the ways Scripture is used to hurt rather than heal. This accessibly written book provides a much-needed perspective, illuminating the good news of healing and liberation that the Bible offers survivors of sexual abuse. As a theologian and survivor of abuse herself, Elaine Heath handles this sensitive topic with compassion and grace. She offers a close reading of several biblical passages that have proven to be profoundly healing for her and for other survivors. The book is illustrated with stories and insights from sexual abuse survivors who have experienced healing through the Bible in order to bring hope and encouragement to victims. It will be welcome reading for those who have suffered from abuse as well as for pastors, counselors, therapists, and others who minister to them. Each chapter ends with two sets of reflection questions and recommended activities--one set for survivors and another for those who journey with them.

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Brazos Press

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1441231994

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9781441231994

Global Inequalities and Higher Education

Whose interests are you serving?

By: Elaine Unterhalter,Vincent Carpentier

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Global Inequalities and Higher Education

Whose interests are you serving?

By: Elaine Unterhalter,Vincent Carpentier

Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350306266

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Beyond Belief

The Secret Gospel of Thomas

By: Elaine Pagels

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Beyond Belief

The Secret Gospel of Thomas

By: Elaine Pagels

In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group of researchers, Pagels returns to her investigation of the “secret” Gospel of Thomas, and breathes new life into writings once thought heretical. As she arrives at an ever-deeper conviction in her own faith, Pagels reveals how faith allows for a diversity of interpretations, and that the “rogue” voices of Christianity encourage and sustain “the recognition of the light within us all.”

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Vintage

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140007908X

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9781400079087

Dorothy Day

Champion of the Poor

By: Elaine Murray Stone

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Dorothy Day

Champion of the Poor

By: Elaine Murray Stone

A brief biography of Dorothy Day, from her wild and tempestuous youth, to her conversion, to her radical activism as she emerged as an advocate for the poor and marginalized. -- Back cover.

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Paulist Press

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0809167190

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Performing Piety

Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe

By: Elaine A. Pena

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Performing Piety

Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe

By: Elaine A. Pena

The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations—at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Peña demonstrates how devotees’ rituals—pilgrimage, prayers, and festivals—develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces. Interdisciplinary in scope, Performing Piety paints a nuanced picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions circulate within and between sacred spaces.

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Univ of California Press

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0520948807

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9780520948808

Longing for Spring

A New Vision for Wesleyan Community

By: Elaine A Heath,Scott T Kisker

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Longing for Spring

A New Vision for Wesleyan Community

By: Elaine A Heath,Scott T Kisker

Delving into the widespread, contemporary longing for a more serious and communal experience of Christianity, this book provides important theoretical underpinnings and casts a vision for a new monasticism within the Wesleyan tradition. Elaine Heathand Scott Kisker call for the planting of neo-monastic churches which embody the Wesleyan vision of holiness in postmodern contexts. This book also points toward some vital shifts that are necessary in theological education in order to equip pastorsto lead such communities. Longing for Spring helps Wesleyans of all stripes understand the theory and praxis necessary for planting neo-monastic communities as a new model of the church that is particularly important in the postmodern context. The authors write in an engaging, conversational style that is conversant with postmodern culture, yet thoroughly informed by critical research. Heath and Kisker boldly challenge the imagination of the church, both within and beyond Wesleyan traditions, to consider the possibility of revitalizing the church through the new monasticism.

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Lutterworth Press

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0718842979

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9780718842970

The Little Book of the Spirit

Thoughts to Inspire, Comfort, and Motivate Women

By: Elaine Partnow

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The Little Book of the Spirit

Thoughts to Inspire, Comfort, and Motivate Women

By: Elaine Partnow

In times of trouble, and even when things are going well, we can all benefit from an encouraging word or hopeful advice. Optimistic words of wisdom from people who have themselves risen to positions of prominence are often all it takes to remind us of life’s simple joys—and the possibility of triumphing over its challenges. In The Little Book of the Spirit, acclaimed author Elaine Bernstein Partnow presents hundreds of uplifting observations designed to inspire, motivate, and comfort readers. Drawn from the insights of humorists, politicians, Olympians, Nobel Prize winners, and other notables, this compilation culls the thoughts of an international array of incredible men and women noted for their positive contributions to the world. Featuring wise and witty sayings from notable men and women, The Little Book of the Spirit offers an uplifting and rejuvenating reading experience that is sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and always provocative.

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Union Square & Co.

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1435136942

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Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area

Introduction, Notes, and Classification

By: Elaine K. Miller

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Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area

Introduction, Notes, and Classification

By: Elaine K. Miller

Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United States. Since it is in the urban centers that most Mexican-Americans have lived, this collection represents an important contribution to the study of that tradition and to the study of the changes urban life effects on traditional folklore. The collection includes sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales. The legendary narratives deal with the virgins and saints as well as with such familiar characters as the vanishing hitchhiker, the headless horseman, and the llorona. Familiar characters appear in the traditional tales—Juan del Oso, Blancaflor, Pedro de Ordimalas, and others. Elaine Miller concludes that the traditional tales are dying out in the city because tale telling itself is not suited to the fast pace of modern urban life, and the situations and characters in the tales are not perceived by the people to be meaningfully related to the everyday challenges and concerns of that life. The legendary tales survive longer in an urban setting because, although containing fantastic elements, they are related to the beliefs and hopes of the narrator—even in the city one may be led to buried treasure on some dark night by a mysterious woman. The penchant of the informants for the fantastic in many of their tales often reflects their hopes and fears, such as their dreams of suddenly acquiring wealth or their fears of being haunted by the dead. Miller closely observes the teller's relation to the stories—to the duendes, the ánimas, Death, God, the devil—and she notes the tension on the part of the informant in his relation to their religion. The material is documented according to several standard tale and motif indices and is placed within the context of the larger body of Hispanic folk tradition by the citation of parallel versions throughout the Hispanic world. The tales, transcribed from taped interviews, are presented in colloquial Spanish accompanied by summaries in English.

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The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe

By: Elaine Fulton

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The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe

By: Elaine Fulton

The 'problem of authority' was not an invention of the Protestant Reformation, but, as the essays contained in this volume demonstrate, its discussion, in ever greater complexity, was one of the ramifications (if not causes) of the deepening divisions within the Christian church in the sixteenth century. Any optimism that the principle of sola scriptura might provide a vehicle for unity and concord in the post-Reformation church was soon to be dented by a growing uncertainty and division, evident even in early evangelical writing and preaching. Representing a new approach to an important subject this volume of essays widens the understanding and interpretation of authority in the debates of the Reformation. The fruits of original and recent research, each essay builds with careful scholarship on solid historiographical foundations, ensuring that the content and ultimate conclusions do much to challenge long-standing assumptions about perceptions of authority in the aftermath of the Reformation. Rather than dealing with individual sources of authority in isolation, the volume examines the juxtapositions of and negotiations between elements of the authoritative synthesis, and thereby throws new light on the nature of authority in early-modern Europe as a whole. This volume is thus an ideal vehicle with which to bring high quality, new, and significant research into the public domain for the first time, whilst adding substantially to the existing corpus of Reformation scholarship.

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The Pilgrim Traveller

By: Mary Elaine Friend

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The Pilgrim Traveller

By: Mary Elaine Friend

This book is a collection of inspirational travel stories that span seventeen years of travel by the author, including human interest stories of people she interviewed. In a special chapter of "Traveling Back in Time," it also includes stories of genealogy and legends. While tracing her multiracial ancestry, Mary Elaine uncovered legends and stories associated with her family tree and realized that although unique, the values and lessons are universal. Every family has a story waiting to be uncovered.

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Inventing Herself

Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

By: Elaine Showalter

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Inventing Herself

Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

By: Elaine Showalter

Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present. With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of women who possess a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. These women tried to work, travel, think, love, and even die in ways that were ahead of their time. In doing so, they forged an epic history that each generation of adventurous women has rediscovered. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of these women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more. Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom. This is not a history of perfect women, but rather of real women, whose mistakes and even tragedies are instructive and inspiring for women today who are still trying to invent themselves.

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Origins of Difference

The Gender Debate Revisited

By: Elaine Storkey

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Origins of Difference

The Gender Debate Revisited

By: Elaine Storkey

In what ways are women and men different? Where do these differences originate? In this book, Elaine Storkey uncovers the foundational assumptions and presuppositions that lie beneath gender issues and builds a cohesive model for a biblical view of men and women.

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1532680082

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What Brings You to Life?

Awakening Woman's Spiritual Essence

By: Beverly Elaine Eanes,Lee Joyce Richmond,Jean W. Link

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What Brings You to Life?

Awakening Woman's Spiritual Essence

By: Beverly Elaine Eanes,Lee Joyce Richmond,Jean W. Link

This hope-filled book helps women discover, for themselves, what prompts or releases their hope, healing, creativity, and joy. The authors combine insightful reflection with anecdotes from their own lives, stories from the many women interviewed for the book, and dozens of quotations from men and women throughout the ages.

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

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0520309936

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Hematopathology - E-Book

By: Elaine Sarkin Jaffe,Daniel A. Arber,Elias Campo,Leticia Quintanilla-Fend,Attilio Orazi,Lisa M. Rimsza,Steven H. Swerdlow

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Hematopathology - E-Book

By: Elaine Sarkin Jaffe,Daniel A. Arber,Elias Campo,Leticia Quintanilla-Fend,Attilio Orazi,Lisa M. Rimsza,Steven H. Swerdlow

Covering the broad range of benign and malignant disorders that affect the hematopoietic system, Hematopathology, 3rd Edition, remains your #1 source of authoritative information in this fast-changing field. Edited by Dr. Elaine Jaffe and a team of globally renowned, expert co-editors, it offers a wealth of up-to-date information in an easily accessible format, equipping you to deliver more accurate and actionable pathology reports. Comprehensive in scope, this highly illustrated, practical text is a must-have resource for residents and practicing pathologists alike. - Helps you navigate the latest changes in the classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms, providing guidance for use of both the International Consensus Classification (ICC) and 5th edition of the WHO classification. - Incorporates the latest molecular/cytogenetic information, regarding newly recognized entities and the latest diagnostic criteria. - Provides you with today's most effective guidance in evaluating specimens from the lymph nodes, bone marrow, peripheral blood, and more, with authoritative information on the pathogenesis, clinical and pathologic diagnosis, and treatment for each. - Details the latest insights on the molecular biology of benign and malignant hematologic disorders. - Features more than 1,100 high-quality color images that mirror the findings you encounter in practice. - Uses an easy-to-navigate, templated format with standard headings in each chapter. - Includes information on disease progression and prognosis, helping you better understand the clinical implications of diagnosis. - Shares the knowledge and expertise of new editors, Drs. Lisa Rimsza, Attilio Orazi, and Steven Swerdlow, providing expertise in molecular diagnostics, bone marrow and lymph node biopsies.

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