Mapping My Way Home

• Author : Stephanie Urdang
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release : 22 November 2017

Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar Cabral, who would influence her return

• Author : Adyashanti
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 2013

• Author : Andrew Munochemeyi Manyevere
• Publisher : FriesenPress
• Release : 31 October 2022

The Passage onto the Way is a focused look backward to when a catastrophic future was born and founded on political greed, as well as an agenda of how to chart the pathway forward to peaceful development and stability. It is a look at a means though a gradual undermining of past rituals, whether traditional or Christian. It is a dialogue and education broadly initiated in historical errors—where it went wrong and is going wrong and offers options to

• Author : H. Melt
• Publisher : Haymarket Books
• Release : 16 November 2021

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt’s writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and

• Author : Octavio Paz
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 November 2011

Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy,

• Author : Ann Laforest
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 27 March 2023

Reading Thérèse of Lisieux according to the signs of the times, Sr. Ann Laforest offers a fresh and unparalleled look at the witness and teaching of one of the Church's favourite saints. Doing away with the false impression of Thérèse's sugary piety, Laforest reveals the profound nature of "The Little Way" as the Way to Love and liberation. When placed in dialogue with contemporary mystics such as Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero, it becomes ever clearer

• Author : Robert A. Wilson
• Publisher : Balboa Press
• Release : 05 September 2017

Dissolving Ancient Anger I am here to dissolve history, releasing my masculine illiteracy. I am liberated from everything. I admire the spree of me, and the light of liberation is my inspirational expression of personal expansiondissolving, releasing, and relieving me of all inner thievery.

• Author : Gail Omvedt
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 18 August 2003

This book is an historical survey of Buddhism in India and shows how over a period of 2500 years, Buddhism has been engaged in a struggle against caste-hierarchy. It has challenged Brahmanism, the main exploitative system of traditional Indian society, and instead endeavored to build religious egalitarianism.

• Author : Rudolf von Sinner
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 04 May 2012

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poor. After democratic transition in the mid-1980s, the context changed considerably. Democracy, growing religious pluralism and mobility, a vibrant civil society, the political

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 27 March 1969

• Author : Shantideva
• Publisher : Shambhala Publications
• Release : 06 November 2007

Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded upon in an unbroken tradition for centuries, first in India, and later in Tibet. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines the path of the Bodhisattvas—those who renounce the peace of individual enlightenment and

• Author : Arthur David Canales
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 25 May 2018

Models and Methods for Youth and Young Adult Ministry is a rare book on young adult and youth ministry in that it weaves sound theology and solid pastoral practice. It invites pastoral practitioners, scholars in the field, and university-ministry students to envision various models and methods for doing youth and young adult ministry in a collaborative and ecumenical way. Through rich, concrete examples and strategies, the reader will grasp the significance of each model and the various methods to integrate

• Author : Yung Suk Kim
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 21 January 2013

Yung Suk Kim asks important questions in Biblical Interpretation: Why do we care about the Bible and biblical interpretation? How do we know which interpretation is better? He expertly brings to the fore the essential elements of interpretation--the reader, the text, and the reading lens--and attempts to explore a set of criteria for solid interpretation. While celebrating the diversity of biblical interpretation, Kim warns that not all interpretations are valid, legitimate, or healthy because interpretation involves the complex process of

• Author : Andrew Woodhall,Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 28 August 2017

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face. The recent ‘political turn’ in interspecies ethics, from ethical to political approaches, has arisen due to the apparent lack of success of the nonhuman animal movement and dissatisfaction with traditional approaches. Current works largely present general positions rather than address specific issues and principally rely on mainstream approaches. This book offers alternative positions such as cosmopolitan, libertarian, and left humanist thought, as well as applying ethical and

• Author : Natalie Thomlinson
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 08 April 2016

This book is the first archive-based account of the charged debates around race in the women's movement in England during the 'second wave' period. Examining both the white and the Black women's movement through a source base that includes original oral histories and extensive research using feminist periodicals, this book seeks to unpack the historical roots of long-running tensions between Black and white feminists. It gives a broad overview of the activism that both Black and white women were involved