Author: Ben Knighton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: vitality, indigenous, religions, series, faith, tradition, karamojong, religion, dying, living
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754603830
ISBN-13: 9780754603832
How long can traditional religion survive the impact of world religions, state hegemony and globalization? The "Karamoja problem" is one that has perplexed colonial and independent governments alike. Now Karamojong notoriety for armed cattle raiding has attracted the attention of the UN as the proliferation of small arms from Sudan to Somalia is deemed a threat to world security. The consequences are ethnocidal, but what makes African people stand out against state and global governance? The traditional African religion of the Karamojong, despite multiple external influences of the 20th centur
Author: Chongho Kim
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: indigenous, religions, series, vitality, paradox, shamanism, cultural, korean
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2003-05
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0754631850
ISBN-13: 9780754631859
Why do Koreans use shamanic ritual even though prejudice against shamanism is universal? Why do so many Koreans employ a practice that is widely stigmatized and despised as superstition? Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system. This has led to the periodical suppression of shamanism and has also, paradoxically, ensured its survival throughout Korean history. This book examines the place of shamans within contemporary society, exploring shamanism as a cultural practice in which people make use of shamanic ritual, and disputing the prevalent view that shamanism i
Authors:Graham Harvey, Charles D., Jr. Thompson,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: indigenous, vitality, series, religions, dislocations, diasporas
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0754639061
ISBN-13: 9780754639060
Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. "Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations" engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding
Author: Omni Sanchez-Martinez
Publisher: RoseDog Books
Keywords: vitality
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-10-19
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 1434994279
ISBN-13: 9781434994271
Alien rivals Skesh and Scentile once lived on the lush and fertile planet of Indogeldron. At war for thousands of years, they destroyed the land over which they had so bitterly fought. In the year 2031, the last wormhole leads them directly into the Milky Way galaxy. Finding themselves on Earth, the aliens assure the humans that they come in peace, looking only for a helping hand. But the strangers are not to be trusted, and the humans must defend themselves in order to survive and keep Earth as their home.
Author: Michael Tse
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: vitality, amp, health, qigong
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0312141289
ISBN-13: 9780312141288
In Qigong for Health and Vitality, Michael Tse, a Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) master trained by some of China’s finest Qigong practitioners, explains the philosophy and practice of Qigong, a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine that combines breathing, posture, and movement to generate internal energy, restore health, and promote a sense of well-being. Qigong for Health and Vitality is the first truly accessible, introductory guide to this three-thousand-year-old for Chinese healing.Michael Tse now teaches in London, and is adept at presenting Qigong’s "secrets" to a Western aud
Author: Mr. Robert Davidson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: worship, vitality
Number of Pages: 494
Published: 1998-07-17
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0802842461
ISBN-13: 9780802842466
For centuries the Psalms have been central to Jewish and Christian tradition and spirituality. In them can be found echoes of the whole range of human experience and need, from praise to protest, from ringing certainty to unanswered questions, from quiet confidence to the dark night of the soul. This commentary by Robert Davidson shows how a contemporary critical approach to the Psalms can throw light not only on their meaning in their original context in the life of ancient Israel, but on their continuing relevance for worship today. Taking primarily a theological approach to the Psalms, Davi
Author: Richard Esser
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Keywords: living, vitality
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0875866190
ISBN-13: 9780875866192
Optimistic and easy to read, this book gives practical new insights into how to get the best out of living and how to cope with the worst.The author sets out six key elements of the severest desperation that people can experience: rage, panic, violence, hopelessness, and self-destructiveness. The central problem of living, he shows, concerns the need to turn those elements of desperation into their corresponding aspects of vitality. The book sets out six sliding scales that connect craziness with creativity, rage with courage, panic with initiative, and other positive mechanisms that can be ha
