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Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

By: Lana Portolano

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Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

By: Lana Portolano

Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture offers readers a people’s history of deafness and sign language in the Catholic Church. Paying ample attention to the vocation stories of deaf priests and pastoral workers, Portolano traces the transformation of the Deaf Catholic community from passive recipients of mercy to an active language minority making contributions in today’s globally diverse church. Background chapters familiarize readers with early misunderstandings about deaf people in the church and in broader society, along with social and religious issues facing deaf people throughout history. A series of connected narratives demonstrate the strong Catholic foundations of deaf education in sign language, including sixteenth-century monastic schools for deaf children and nineteenth-century French education in sign language as a missionary endeavor. The author explains how nineteenth-century schools for deaf children, especially those founded by orders of religious sisters, established small communities of Deaf Catholics around the globe. A series of portraits illustrates the work of pioneering missionaries in several different countries—“apostles to the Deaf”—who helped to establish and develop deaf culture in these communities through adult religious education and the sacraments in sign language. In several chapters focused on the twentieth century, the author describes key events that sparked a modern transformation in Deaf Catholic culture. As linguists began to recognize sign languages as true human languages, deaf people borrowed the practices of Civil Rights activists to gain equality both as citizens and as members of the church. At the same time, deaf people drew inspiration and cultural validation from key documents of Vatican II, and leadership of the Deaf Catholic community began to come from the deaf community rather than to it through missionaries. Many challenges remain, but this book clearly presents Deaf Catholic culture as an important and highly visible embodiment of Catholic heritage.

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Catholic University of America Press

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0813233399

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Dark Wave

By: Lana Guineay

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Dark Wave

By: Lana Guineay

George hasn’t heard from his ex, Paloma, since she returned to her family home on Songbird Island in the Whitsundays. Now she’s asking for his help to uncover the mystery of who is stealing the family’s wealth, but what they discover is much worse than a case of fraud. With luscious prose and a sumptuous setting, Lana Guineay’s debut novella is a brilliant reworking of the classic crime novel. WINNER OF THE 2020 VIVA LA NOVELLA PRIZE

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Seizure

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1922267260

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Carnal Rhetoric

Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

By: Lana Cable

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Carnal Rhetoric

Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

By: Lana Cable

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton’s poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton’s works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language. Cable traces the development of Milton’s iconoclastic poetics from its roots in the antiprelatical tracts, through the divorce tracts and Areopagitica, to its fullest dramatic representation in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes. Arguing that, like every creative act, metaphor is by nature a radical and self-transgressing agent of change, she explores the site where metaphoric language and imaginative desire merge. Examining the demands Milton places on metaphor, particularly his emphasis on language as a vehicle for mortal redemption, Cable demonstrates the ways in which metaphor acts for him as that creative and radical agent of change. In the process, she reveals Milton’s engagement, at the deepest levels of linguistic creativity, with the early modern commitment to an imaginative and historic remaking of the world. An insightful and synthetic book, Carnal Rhetoric will appeal to scholars of English literature, Milton, and the Renaissance, as well as to those with an interest in the theory of affective stylistics as it pertains to reader-response criticism, semantics, epistemology, and the philosophy and psychology of language.

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248

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Duke University Press

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0822382407

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9780822382409

Education

By: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell,Lana Collet-Klingenberg

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Education

By: Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell,Lana Collet-Klingenberg

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores education issues for people with disabilities and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The concise, engaging presentational style emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.

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361

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SAGE Publications

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1483305740

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New Money

By: Lana Swartz

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New Money

By: Lana Swartz

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities "In an engaging and timely work, brimming with fascinating anecdotes and historical and literary references, Lana Swartz brilliantly illustrates how financial technologies are quietly transforming how we socialize and what it means to belong."--Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems--cash, card, app, or Bitcoin--are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrencies, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory--and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

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Yale University Press

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0300233221

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9780300233223

Single and Content

Experiencing Singleness in a Paired-off World

By: Dana Anders,Nathan Clement,Chris Conti,Lana Trent

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Experiencing Singleness in a Paired-off World

By: Dana Anders,Nathan Clement,Chris Conti,Lana Trent

Written by four young, single adults who lead a large singles ministry, this refreshing book includes in-depth discussions about self-esteem contentment, and devotion to Christ.

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260

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W Publishing Group

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0849937191

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Jon Teel

By: Lana Laws Downing

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Jon Teel

By: Lana Laws Downing

What could go wrong when the lives of an abused biracial mystery child and a wealthy widow happen to intersect? Jon Teel is the story of abuse and evil, love and salvation set in a small town in South Louisiana.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1642582166

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Experiencing Singleness in a Paired-off World

By: Dana Anders,Nathan Clement,Chris Conti,Lana Trent

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Experiencing Singleness in a Paired-off World

By: Dana Anders,Nathan Clement,Chris Conti,Lana Trent

Written by four young, single adults who lead a large singles ministry, this refreshing book includes in-depth discussions about self-esteem contentment, and devotion to Christ.

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Book's by Lana Trent

Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

Be Opened! The Catholic Church and Deaf Culture

Dark Wave

Dark Wave

Carnal Rhetoric

Carnal Rhetoric

Education

Education

New Money

New Money

Single and Content

Single and Content

Jon Teel

Jon Teel

Single and Content

Single and Content

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