When Souls Had Wings - 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 When Souls Had Wings write by Terryl L. Givens. This book was released on 2012-06-07. When Souls Had Wings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The idea of the pre-existence of the soul has been extremely important, widespread, and persistent throughout Western history--from even before the philosophy of Plato to the poetry of Robert Frost. This book offers the first systematic history of this little explored feature of Western culture. Terryl Givens underscores how durable (and controversial) this idea has been throughout history, highlighting the theological dangers it has represented, and revealing how prominently it has featured in poetry, literature, and art.
Before Women Had Wings
Before Women Had Wings - 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 Before Women Had Wings write by Connie May Fowler. This book was released on 1999. Before Women Had Wings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."
Cosmic Cradle
Cosmic Cradle - 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 Cosmic Cradle write by Elizabeth Carman. This book was released on 1999. Cosmic Cradle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cosmic Cradle is filled with wisdom gathered from interviews with gifted individuals as well as classical and traditional sources - philosophy, cultural anthropology, history, biographies, religion, poetry, and mythology. This knowledge has never been synthesized and compiled before into a single volume.
People of Paradox
People of Paradox - 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 People of Paradox write by Terryl L. Givens. This book was released on 2007-08-29. People of Paradox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe. Throughout the last century and a half, Givens notes, distinctive traditions have emerged among the Latter-Day Saints, shaped by dynamic tensions--or paradoxes--that give Mormon cultural expression much of its vitality. Here is a religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a yearning for integration and acceptance by the larger world. Givens divides Mormon history into two periods, separated by the renunciation of polygamy in 1890. In each, he explores the life of the mind, the emphasis on education, the importance of architecture and urban planning (so apparent in Salt Lake City and Mormon temples around the world), and Mormon accomplishments in music and dance, theater, film, literature, and the visual arts. He situates such cultural practices in the context of the society of the larger nation and, in more recent years, the world. Today, he observes, only fourteen percent of Mormon believers live in the United States. Mormonism has never been more prominent in public life. But there is a rich inner life beneath the public surface, one deftly captured in this sympathetic, nuanced account by a leading authority on Mormon history and thought.
The Crucible of Doubt
The Crucible of Doubt - 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 Crucible of Doubt write by Terryl Givens. This book was released on 2014-09-08. The Crucible of Doubt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful book offers a careful, intelligent look at doubt--at some of its common sources, the challenges it presents, and the opportunities it may open up in a person's quest for faith.
