Into the Mountains - 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 Into the Mountains write by Maggie Stier. This book was released on 1995. Into the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The armchair dreamer's companion -- a graceful and fascinating history of New England's fifteen most celebrated mountains, with information on people, places legends, and lore.
Woman Running in the Mountains
Woman Running in the Mountains - 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 Woman Running in the Mountains write by Yuko Tsushima. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Woman Running in the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.
A Path into the Mountains
A Path into the Mountains - 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 Path into the Mountains write by Caleb Swift Carter. This book was released on 2022-05-31. A Path into the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
Look to the Mountains
Look to the Mountains - 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 Look to the Mountains write by Suzanne Hensel. This book was released on 2006. Look to the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth look into the lives and times of the people who shaped the history of the Catalina Mountains. This revised edition includes a section on the 2003 Aspen fires.
Minarets in the Mountains
Minarets in the Mountains - 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 Minarets in the Mountains write by Tharik Hussain. This book was released on 2021-07-15. Minarets in the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel writing about Muslim Europe. A journey around Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, home to the largest indigenous Muslim population in Europe, following the footsteps of Evliya Celebi through Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro. A book that begins to decolonise European history.
