Caodai, Brief Essential Notions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caodai, Brief Essential Notions write by Hong Bui. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Caodai, Brief Essential Notions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book CaoDai, Brief Essential Notions is a strong addition to the current literature based on:* its timely provision of clarity in a chaotic world filled with religious conflict, by finding similarities rather than differences, by affirming our common sublime origin.* its teaching at the esoteric level of emanation from and return to the Principle as CaoDai stated: "I, your Master, am you, My children; and children, you are Me."* its description of scientific basis of the sameness of humanity and the universe.* its guidance on how to attain this blissful state of discovery of our sublime nature for a peaceful, harmonious individual and community life with the practice of:- love, compassion, justice- the Triple Fold Path of selfless service to humanity, self-cultivation tocontrol the egoistic self and return to the inner-self with meditation.- a plant-based diet* its description of the principle and practice of meditation* its description of the beneficial individual and environmental effects of the plant-based diet, of the scientific nutritional values and its provision for tools on how to adopt the diet successfully. The book opens to a renewal of faith and hope with an affirmation of possible realization of individual and community harmony. To the reader whether faith or non-faithbased, the message is that we are all on the road toward a higher spiritual enfoldment, beyond this current supreme technological achievement.
The Divine Eye and the Diaspora
The Divine Eye and the Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Divine Eye and the Diaspora write by Janet Alison Hoskins. This book was released on 2015-02-28. The Divine Eye and the Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the relationship between syncretism and diaspora? Caodaism is a large but almost unknown new religion that provides answers to this question. Born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, it is now reshaping the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, its “outrageous syncretism” incorporates Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne d’Arc, Vladimir Lenin, and (in the USA) Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The book looks at the connections between “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) in French Indochina and the “age of diaspora” (1975-present) when many Caodai leaders and followers went into exile. Structured in paired biographies to trace relations between masters and disciples, now separated by oceans, it focuses on five members of the founding generation and their followers or descendants in California, showing the continuing obligation to honor those who forged the initial vision to “bring the gods of the East and West together.” Diasporic congregations in California have interacted with New Age ideas and stereotypes of a “Walt Disney fantasia of the East,” at the same time that temples in Vietnam have re-opened their doors after decades of severe restrictions. Caodaism forces us to reconsider how anthropologists study religious mixtures in postcolonial settings. Its dynamics challenge the unconscious Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and conceptualized.
Fire Road
Fire Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Road write by Kim Phuc Phan Thi. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Fire Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames—before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It’s a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived—but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country’s freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul? Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain. Fire Road is a story of horror and hope, a harrowing tale of a life changed in an instant—and the power and resilience that can only be found in the power of God’s mercy and love.
A Brief Introduction to Caodaism
A Brief Introduction to Caodaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief Introduction to Caodaism write by Tuy Ngoc Trinh. This book was released on 2014. A Brief Introduction to Caodaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quiet American write by Graham Greene. This book was released on 2018-03-13. The Quiet American available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
