Say What Your Longing Heart Desires - 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 Say What Your Longing Heart Desires write by Niloofar Haeri. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned questions of what it means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public debate, taken up widely outside the exclusive realm of male clerics and intellectuals. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires offers an elegant ethnography of these debates among a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, Haeri illuminates the ways in which believers draw on prayer and ritual acts as the emotional and intellectual material through which they think, deliberate, and debate.
The Land of Heart's Desire
The Land of Heart's Desire - 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 Land of Heart's Desire write by William Butler Yeats. This book was released on 1908. The Land of Heart's Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Yours Always
Yours Always - 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 Yours Always write by Eleanor Bass. This book was released on 2017-01-05. Yours Always available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Love letters are potent. They breathe. They speak. They can arouse, comfort, captivate. They can also cut deep. The powerful, deeply personal letters collected here reveal the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'growl with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference' and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a 'terrible' passion. Through the letters of literary icons Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and statesmen Henry VIII and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of such illustrious figures. Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love. Includes letter to and from: Charlotte Brontë, Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Henry VIII, Ted Hughes, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Marilyn Monroe, Iris Murdoch, Edith Piaf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats
Fill These Hearts
Fill These Hearts - 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 Fill These Hearts write by Christopher West. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Fill These Hearts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling author, speaker, and teacher of John Paul II's Theology of the Body explores the yearning we all have for God and each other. Fill These Hearts is a book about desire. Not trivial wants or superficial cravings, but the most vital powers of body and soul, sexuality and spirituality, that haunt us and compel us on our search for something. Weaving life-altering lessons together from classical and contemporary art, pop music, movies, and the Christian mystical tradition, popular theologian Christopher West explores the ancient but largely forgotten idea that the restless, erotic yearnings we feel in both our bodies and our spirits reveal the cry of our hearts for God. Along the way, West blows the lid off the idea of Christianity as a repressive, anti-sex religion by demonstrating that Christ came to stretch and inflame our desire for love and union to the point of infinity.
The Journey of Desire
The Journey of Desire - 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 Journey of Desire write by John Eldredge. This book was released on 2000. The Journey of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urges readers to explore the God-given passions within their hearts, thus living life more fully while honoring their faith.
