Описание: Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, breakthrough these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince "hopepunk." They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Автор: Reid-Bowen, Paul Название: Goddess as Nature ISBN: 0754656276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754656272 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Peter Bloom Название: Identity, Institutions and Governance in an AI World ISBN: 3030361802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030361808 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on insights from organisational studies, critical theory, psychology and futurism - it will chart for readers the coming changes to identity, institutions and governance in a world populated by intelligent human and non-human actors alike.
Описание: This updated, second edition textbook provides a thorough and accessible treatment of semiconductor lasers from a design and engineering perspective. It includes both the physics of devices as well as the engineering, designing and testing of practical lasers. The material is presented clearly with many examples provided. Readers of the book will come to understand the finer aspects of the theory, design, fabrication and test of these devices and have an excellent background for further study of optoelectronics.
Автор: Robert Frodeman Название: Transhumanism and Nature: A Critique of Technoscience ISBN: 0367189399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367189396 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is an interdisciplinary account of the role of science and technology in contemporary culture, culminating in a social-political and philosophical critique of transhumanism. The author probes the assumptions of transhumanist thinkers and prominent critics as he develops his own distinctive take on transhumanism.
Is Wicca a way of life that most resembles your own ideas of how we should live?
Is it something that you have a limited knowledge of, that you are eager to expand?
The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is the answer you've been looking for
Wicca is a fairly new concept as far as religions are concerned and has only become popular in the latter half of the 20th century. With some of its roots in paganism, Wicca has no central authority and continues to grow and evolve with new strands being added regularly.
For anyone who wants to enter this fascinating world and understand the practices that Wicca follows, The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is a book bundle of three great titles that will provide the platform you need.
Including Wicca For Beginners and Wicca Spells, this bundle offers an insight like no other and includes chapters on:
The history of Wicca, including its origins, founders and traditions
How to celebrate the Wiccan Holidays and seasonal changes alongside the ancestors and fellow witches
How to perform Wiccan rituals (including an overview of ritual tools, like candle magic)
Wiccan theology, beliefs, witchcraft and ethics
An introduction to Green Witchcraft
The adventurous magic world of incorporating herbal magic into cooking and eating
Learning how to meditate with Herbs
Growing, harvesting and preserving magical herbs
A glossary of various magical and Wiccan terms
A Book of Shadows with many spells that you can cast
Chapters on chakras, crystal magic and candle magic
And much more...
Witchcraft is defined as, "The practice of manifesting energy into the universe in order to manipulate it for events to happen in line with your desires".
The only commandment in this religion is to do what feels right for you. The purpose is to help you on your spiritual journey.
You can incorporate as much or as little witchcraft into your faith as you want. The most important thing is to live a spiritual life that is meaningful to you.
Perfect for anyone who is a newcomer to this fascinating and mystical subject, The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is a book that will take you on a journey into Wicca like no other. And with three books in one, it presents you with outstanding value for money too.
Описание: Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, breakthrough these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince "hopepunk." They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.
Is Wicca a way of life that most resembles your own ideas of how we should live?
Is it something that you have a limited knowledge of, that you are eager to expand?
The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is the answer you've been looking for
Wicca is a fairly new concept as far as religions are concerned and has only become popular in the latter half of the 20th century. With some of its roots in paganism, Wicca has no central authority and continues to grow and evolve with new strands being added regularly.
For anyone who wants to enter this fascinating world and understand the practices that Wicca follows, The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is a book bundle of three great titles that will provide the platform you need.
Including Wicca For Beginners and Wicca Spells, this bundle offers an insight like no other and includes chapters on:
The history of Wicca, including its origins, founders and traditions
How to celebrate the Wiccan Holidays and seasonal changes alongside the ancestors and fellow witches
How to perform Wiccan rituals (including an overview of ritual tools, like candle magic)
Wiccan theology, beliefs, witchcraft and ethics
An introduction to Green Witchcraft
The adventurous magic world of incorporating herbal magic into cooking and eating
Learning how to meditate with Herbs
Growing, harvesting and preserving magical herbs
A glossary of various magical and Wiccan terms
A Book of Shadows with many spells that you can cast
Chapters on chakras, crystal magic and candle magic
And much more...
Witchcraft is defined as, "The practice of manifesting energy into the universe in order to manipulate it for events to happen in line with your desires".
The only commandment in this religion is to do what feels right for you. The purpose is to help you on your spiritual journey.
You can incorporate as much or as little witchcraft into your faith as you want. The most important thing is to live a spiritual life that is meaningful to you.
Perfect for anyone who is a newcomer to this fascinating and mystical subject, The Complete Guide to Witchcraft is a book that will take you on a journey into Wicca like no other. And with three books in one, it presents you with outstanding value for money too.
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Автор: Beavis Название: Christian Goddess Spirituality ISBN: 113893688X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138936881 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis's study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived religious experience of CGS practitioners, drawing on interviews of over 100 women who self-identify as combining Christianity and Goddess spirituality. Although CGS also has implications for Goddess Spirituality and related traditions (e.g., Neopaganism, Wicca), here, CGS is considered primarily as a phenomenon within Christianity. However, the study also shows that the fusion of Christian and Goddess spiritualties has had an impact on non-Christian feminist spirituality, since Goddess-worshippers have often constructed Christianity as the diametrical opposite and enemy of the Goddess, to the point that some refuse to admit the possibility that CGS is a valid spiritual path, or that it is even possible. In addition, biblical, Jewish and Christian images of the divine such as Sophia, Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and even Mary Magdalene, have found their way into the "Pagan" Goddess pantheon.
The main themes of the study include: overlaps and differences between Christian feminist theology and CGS; the routes to CGS for individual practitioners, and their beliefs, practices and experiences; proto-denominational classifications ("spiritual paths") within CGS; CGS thealogy (Christian discourse about the female divine); and the future of CGS in social scientific and ecclesiological context. Christian Goddess Spirituality will be of interest to scholars of religion, especially those with interests in women and religion, feminist spiritualities, feminist theology/thealogy, alternative spiritualities, New Religious Movements, and emergent Christianities.
Описание: It has been over twenty years since the full manuscript of my book was edited for publication in 1998. I had begun writing it in the previous decade, the 1980's... a period of flourishing women's liberation movements against the patriarchal status quo. Books about women's sexuality and spirituality were flooding the bookstores, and many writers were producing profound studies of the untold heroism of women throughout history. I was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of Sex therapy and education at the University of Minnesota Medical School's "Program in Human Sexuality." In addition, I conducted women's self-enrichment groups and workshops in my private practice... "Woman's Discovery Institute" ... where I also gave professional Astrology readings and classes. This rich mix of psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and a knowledge of the cyclic patterns of life shown by astrology created within me an avid interest in researching women's unsung heroism throughout history. It brewed in me a heady fascination to stitch it all together in a circle montage that connects all women and all aspects of our multi-layered lives. I based my theory on the lunar cycle, which is eternally linked to women's menstrual, emotional, and psychic cycles. With a friend, I created a series of workshops for women to celebrate their many-faceted selves and gain confidence to pursue their goals. Yet for various reasons my book manuscript remained in my own bookshelf, never getting published. Until now... the times again call for women to claim their autonomy and gain equality in an overly male-dominated and viciously callous world. I am blessed to find in Xlibris a publisher ready to take on the project with me. I am thrilled to finally see my "Life's Masterwork" in print. You will find many divergent ideas in these two volumes. No single woman encompasses all that are described, but as you read and recognize these characters in yourselves and your friends, I hope it will help you gain a full appreciation of your own awesome erotic spirit and sacred sexual powers.
Автор: Spina Nanette R. Название: Women`s Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition ISBN: 1349954713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349954711 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book investigates women`s ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity. The Toronto Adhiparasakthi society illustrates how Goddess theology, women`s ritual authority, and "inclusivity" ethics have dynamically shaped the identity of this prominent movement overseas.
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