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Dancing in My Dreams

A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

By: Ralph H. Craig

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Dancing in My Dreams

A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

By: Ralph H. Craig

If you don’t know Tina Turner’s spirituality, you don’t know Tina. When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. Her spiritual transformation is often overshadowed by the rags-to-riches arc of her life story. But in this groundbreaking biography, Ralph H. Craig III traces Tina’s journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and situates her at the vanguard of large-scale movements in religion and pop culture. Paying special attention to the diverse metaphysical beliefs that shaped her spiritual life, Craig untangles Tina’s Soka Gakkai Buddhist foundation; her incorporation of New Age ideas popularized in ’60s counterculture; and her upbringing in a Black Baptist congregation, alongside the influences of her grandmothers’ disciplinary and mystical sensibilities. Through critical engagement with Tina’s personal life and public brand, Craig sheds light on how popular culture has been used as a vehicle for authentic religious teaching. Scholars and fans alike will find Dancing in My Dreams as enlightening as the iconic singer herself.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467467650

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The Bible, Rocks and Time

Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth

By: Davis A. Young,Ralph F. Stearley

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The Bible, Rocks and Time

Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth

By: Davis A. Young,Ralph F. Stearley

Davis A. Young and Ralph Stearley seek to convince readers of the vast antiquity of the Earth. They point out the flaws of young-Earth creationism and counter the impression by many scientists that all Christians are young-Earth creationists.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830828761

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9780830828760

Is Marriage for White People?

How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

By: Ralph Richard Banks

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Is Marriage for White People?

How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

By: Ralph Richard Banks

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women. This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other. This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.

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306

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Penguin

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0452297532

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9780452297531

The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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672

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Columbia University Press

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0231075162

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9780231075169

Dancing in My Dreams

A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

By: Ralph H. Craig

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A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

By: Ralph H. Craig

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Dancing in My Dreams

Dancing in My Dreams

The Bible, Rocks and Time

The Bible, Rocks and Time

Is Marriage for White People?

Is Marriage for White People?

The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dancing in My Dreams

Dancing in My Dreams

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