Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0415503965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world's driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.
Author: Sarah Ruden
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0525563652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this dazzling reconsideration of the language of the Old and New Testaments, acclaimed scholar and translator of classical literature Sarah Ruden argues that the Bible’s modern translations often lack the clarity and vitality of the originals. Singling out the most famous passages, such as the Genesis creation story, the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Beatitudes, Ruden reexamines and retranslates from the Hebrew and Greek, illuminating what has been misunderstood and obscured in standard English translations. By showing how the original texts more clearly reveal our cherished values, Ruden gives us an unprecedented understanding of what this extraordinary document was for its earliest readers and what it can still be for us today.
Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1135098786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world’s driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.
Author: Fred Pearce
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2020-02-10
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0008405123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world.
Author: MICHAEL TAYLOR
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 1105406814
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Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780802136107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.
Author: Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In the late twentieth century, women have made great gains politically and professionally, yet U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have failed for nine years to complete a single letter regarding the standing of women in the church. A Catholic woman can be a Supreme Court justice but she cannot be ordained; she can run a city or state but may not make her own reproductive choices without condemnation. Her daughter can play on a co-ed softball team but cannot serve on the altar on Sunday morning. Is it possible, then, to be a feminist and remain Catholic? For Weaver, the answer is yes. Though the words "Catholic feminist" may seem a contradiction in terms for many women, in Weaver's view they are a challenge to find new sources of spiritual nourishment, for women who are in exodus from the patriarchal church, and for women who feel they are in exile from the church that was once their home, Springs of Water in a Dry Land describes the spiritual options that have always existed for women and provides valuable guidance in keeping both aspects of a Catholic feminist identity intact." "Weaver urges women to look for spiritual truths in places and ways sometimes overlooked. Her book points women toward an expansive Catholic spirituality that can be discovered within and outside of the Catholic tradition. The life and writing of Teresa of Avila, for example, inspire women to have confidence in their own relationships with God and to trust their own experience. In other chapters, Weaver examines the problems of women's ordination, and the possibilities offered by liberation theology, process thought, and Goddess spirituality." "A God who desires relationship is revealed in the lives of women who are on the margins of the Catholic tradition. These women are pioneers, Weaver shows us, whose intuition and experience will lead them to find sustenance in old wellsprings, toward new ways of naming their spiritual home."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Ehsan Masood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780674022249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry--those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, eking out an existence at once remarkable and mundane between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands. From the ingenuity of the highland people of Chile's Atacama desert who use giant nets to capture water from clouds of fog, to the ancient wisdom that protects the grazing lands of Kenya's Masai, this beautifully illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping the water that life requires--all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another. In a world of finite resources, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories--collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents--are a source of hope and wonder. This book contains a wealth of information and images designed to further awareness of the vast array of life that is carried on precariously yet proudly on the earth's dryest lands.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher:
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13:
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