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No vine a ser carne
Par Gata Cattana. 2020
Un libro único e imprescindible: los poemas y textos inéditos de Gata Cattana, la mítica poeta y rapera que enamoró…
auna generación. «No vine a ser carne, vine a ser espuma», escribe Gata Cattana lúcidamente en uno de los textos inéditos que contiene este libro y que le da título. Una compilación de letras, poemas y textos en prosa de la Gata que todos conocemos -activista, feminista, reivindicativa, emocional-, pero también de aquella Ana más ingenua que comenzaba a escribir y a formarse una idea del mundo y de la realidad. La breve pero valiosa obra literaria de la politóloga, rapera y poeta fallecida en 2017 cuyas letras se han convertido en signo de la lucha feminista y de toda una generación se completa con este volumen. Un compendio único y preciado para cualquier seguidor de su música o de sus letras. La crítica ha dicho...«Ella escribía como desafiando al tendío, entre la rabia purísima y una sensibilidad nueva, medio transparente: iluminada como una médium que escrutaba al mundo desde esos ojos llenos de preguntas y eyeliner».Lorena G. Maldonado en El Español «Bajo su cabeza llevaba el cartel de promesa. Muchos la veían como la sucesora de La Mala Rodríguez, otros como la que vendría a salvar el rap femenino y feminista en nuestro país».Eldiario.es «Un año después de su muerte la gente no se ha olvidado de Gata Cattana. Su música sigue siendo referente para muchas jóvenes empoderadas y los designios musicales que transitó en su corta pero intensa carrera artística a buen seguro serán objeto de estudio en un futuro».AS «Una de las voces más potentes y lúcidas del rap español: capaz de invocar, en una misma canción, a la pensadora Silvia Federici, la Teoría King Kong de Virgine Despentes, o a la republicana Clara Campoamor».Playground Magazine «Gata comparte todo lo que le pasa por dentro con sinceridad y determinación. Porque, en ella, las ideas se hacen arte; se hacen inmortales».Vice «Inteligente y sensible, su trabajo estaba cambiando muchas cosas».Mala RodríguezGospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
Par Kelly J. Baker. 2011
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing…
by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture. Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends instead that the KKK based its justifications for hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans, one that employed burning crosses and robes to explicitly exclude Jews and Catholics. To show how the Klan used religion to further its agenda of hate while appealing to everyday Americans, Kelly Baker takes readers back to its "second incarnation" in the 1920s. During that decade, the revived Klan hired a public relations firm that suggested it could reach a wider audience by presenting itself as a "fraternal Protestant organization that championed white supremacy as opposed to marauders of the night." That campaign was so successful that the Klan established chapters in all forty-eight states. Baker has scoured official newspapers and magazines issued by the Klan during that era to reveal the inner workings of the order and show how its leadership manipulated religion, nationalism, gender, and race. Through these publications we see a Klan trying to adapt its hate-based positions with the changing times in order to expand its base by reaching beyond a narrowly defined white male Protestant America. This engrossing expos looks closely at the Klan's definition of Protestantism, its belief in a strong relationship between church and state, its notions of masculinity and femininity, and its views on Jews and African Americans. The book also examines in detail the Klan's infamous 1924 anti-Catholic riot at Notre Dame University and draws alarming parallels between the Klan's message of the 1920s and current posturing by some Tea Party members and their sympathizers. Analyzing the complex religious arguments the Klan crafted to gain acceptability--and credibility--among angry Americans, Baker reveals that the Klan was more successful at crafting this message than has been credited by historians. To tell American history from this startling perspective demonstrates that some citizens still participate in intolerant behavior to protect a fabled white Protestant nation.Know Why You Believe
Par Paul E. Little, James F. Nyquist. 1984
In 2006, Christianity Today voted this title to be one of the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals! Have…
you ever asked, "Do science and Scripture conflict? Are miracles possible? Is Christian experience real? Why does God allow suffering and evil?" These questions need solid answers. That's what a million people have already found in this clear and reasonable response to the toughest intellectual challenges posed to Christian belief. This edition, revised and updated by Marie Little in consultation with experts in science and archaeology, provides twenty-first-century information and offers solid ground for those who are willing to search for truth. Including a study guide for individuals or groups, the classic answer book on Christian faith has never been better!Soñemos juntos: El camino a un futuro mejor
Par Papa Francisco. 2020
Los pensamientos, inquietudes y propuestas más personales del papa Francisco sobre la crisis del Covid-19 y el mundo que emergerá…
de ella. Para salir mejores de esta crisis necesitamos ver claro, elegir bien y actuar en consecuencia. Hablemos del cómo. Atrevámonos a soñar. El papa Francisco ha presenciado cómo la crisis del Covid-19 ponía de relieve de una manera aún más evidente la crueldad y la desigualdad que nos rodean. Pero también ha visto en la capacidad de recuperación, la generosidad y la creatividad de muchas personas los medios para salvar la sociedad, la economía y el planeta. En este libro, el Papa insta a no permitir que todo este dolor sea en vano analizando y aprendiendo lo que esta situación puede enseñarnos, y, con gran sinceridad, revela tres crisis en su propia vida de las que salió fortalecido. El papa Francisco ofrece, además, una brillante y feroz crítica a los sistemas e ideologías que conspiraron para generar la situación actual, desde una economía global obsesionada con los beneficios e indiferente al daño causado a las personas y al medioambiente a los políticos que fomentan el miedo de sus pueblos y lo usan para aumentar su poder. Por último, el Papa propone un proyecto inspirador y concreto para construir un mundo mejor que coloca a los desfavorecidos y al planeta en el centro de un nuevo pensamiento, y muestra que cuando los individuos se unen para actuar a pesar de sus diferencias pueden descubrir imprevistas y maravillosas posibilidades. Soñemos juntos es el papa Francisco en su expresión más personal, profunda y apasionada. Con este libro y con los corazones abiertos podemos cambiar el mundo.Christ the King--Lord of History: A Catholic World History from Ancient to Modern Times (Third Edition)
Par Anne W. Carroll. 1994
Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini (Facing Pages)
Par Alda Merini. 2009
Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major…
national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive selection of Merini's poetry to appear in English. Complete with the original Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes, this collection gathers lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms that span fifty years, from Merini's first books of the 1950s to an unpublished poem from 2001. These accessible and moving poems reflect the experiences of a writer who, after beginning her career at the center of Italian Modernist circles when she was a teenager, went silent in her twenties, spending much of the next two decades in mental hospitals, only to reemerge in the 1970s to a full renewal of her gifts, an outpouring of new work, and great renown. Whether she is working in the briefest, most incisive lyric mode or the complex time schemes of longer meditations, Merini's deep knowledge of classical and Christian myth gives her work a universal, philosophical resonance, revealing what is at heart her tragic sense of life. At the same time, her ironic wit, delight in nature, and affection for her native Milan underlie even her most harrowing poems of suffering. In Stewart's skillful translations readers will discover a true sibyl of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Turn Your Season Around: How God Transforms Your Life
Par Darryl Strawberry. 2021
For anyone ready to move their life forward, from tragedy, personal failure, unfair circumstances, or just a sense of being…
stuck, baseball legend and bestselling author Darryl Strawberry offers transformational practices and the tangible hope that you can enjoy a future filled with power, purpose, and freedom. Darryl Strawberry has seen it all--the highs and lows of an intense career as a Major League Baseball all-star, drug addiction, marriage challenges, prison time, and battles with cancer. With honesty and transparency, Strawberry shares the same foundational principles that transformed his life from the inside out--the power of prayer, cultivating healthy friendships, weathering trials without losing heart, refreshing the way you think, and letting God change your life for good. Ultimately, he'll help you discover and trust the redemptive process of making small, daily decisions to follow God into a life of faith, health, and freedom.Strawberry weaves compelling stories from his own life with those of others he met through his speaking and ministry work across the nation. These uplifting testimonies will inspire you with the reminder that God's power can renew any life, no matter what has happened. With scriptural insights and real-life examples, Strawberry celebrates the miracles God works in us for healing, cleansing, and new beginnings. Strawberry's life story is proof that you can overcome life's adversities one decision, one step at a time. It's time to turn your season around.The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience
Par Michael J. Pfeifer. 2020
Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to…
larger patterns of Catholicism in the United StatesMost histories of American Catholicism take a national focus, leading to a homogenization of American Catholicism that misses much of the local complexity that has marked how Catholicism developed differently in different parts of the country. Such histories often treat northeastern Catholicism, such as the Irish Catholicism of Boston, as if it reflects the full history and experience of Catholicism across the United States.The Making of American Catholicism argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the development of American Catholicism. The American Catholic experience has diverged significantly among regions; if we do not examine how it has taken shape in local cultures, we miss a lot. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the volume assesses the role of region in American Catholic history, carefully exploring the development of American Catholic cultures across the continental United States.Drawing on extensive archival research, The Making of American Catholicism argues that American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholics creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts. They emphasized notions of republicanism, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender, resulting in a unique form of Catholicism that dominates the United States today. The book offers close attention to race and racism in American Catholicism, including the historical experiences of African American and Latinx Catholics as well as Catholics of European descent.Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Shortlit Ser.)
Par Maggie Nelson. 2019
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of…
how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours.Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche.Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane’s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson’s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane’s sister) to retrace the path of Jane’s final hours.Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.The Farm
Par Wendell Berry. 1995
A collector's edition, and the perfect gift for the stalwart Wendell Berry fan First printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz…
of the beloved Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, this gift edition is a beautiful reproduction of Wendell Berry’s book–length poem, illustrated with the original drawings by Carolyn Whitesel.The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
Par Miroslav Volf. 2006
Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Christianity and Culture How should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we…
not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together? We live in an age that insists that past wrongs—genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgotten. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories—after a certain point and under certain conditions—may actually be a gift of grace we should embrace. Volf&’s personal stories of persecution and interrogation frame his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, The End of Memory begins a conversation that we avoid to our great detriment. This second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to critics, and a James K. A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life.Chlorine Sky
Par Mahogany L. Browne. 2021
A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for…
readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes."Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA ia an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless." -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XShe looks me hard in my eyes& my knees lock into tree trunksMy eyes don't dance like my heartbeat racingThey stare straight back hot daggers.I remember things will never be the same.I remember things.With gritty and heartbreaking honesty, Mahogany L. Browne delivers a novel-in-verse about broken promises, fast rumors, and when growing up means growing apart from your best friend.Essential Theological Terms
Par Justo L. González. 2005
This provides students with discussions of theological terms. Each entry in book gives more detail than a dictionary, introducing the…
meaning of the term, its importance, and how it has been understood in both historic and contemporary theology.Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers
Par Laura Joffe Numeroff. 1993
In the Time of Assignments
Par Douglas A. Martin. 2008
In the Time of Assignments transforms a decade’s worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with…
Martin’s work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator’s evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin’s novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
Par Andrew Orta. 2004
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message,…
contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the Aymara must now become more Indian. This groundbreaking study of the contemporary encounter between Catholic missionaries and Aymara Indians is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation," which upholds the beliefs and practices of a supposedly pristine Aymara culture as indigenous expressions of a more universal Christianity. Addressing essential questions in cultural anthropology, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies, Catechizing Culture is a sophisticated documentation of the widespread shift from the politics of class to the politics of ethnicity and multiculturalism.Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
Par George McGhee Jr.. 2018
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150…
feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era. In Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, George R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins; its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest biodiversity crisis to occur since the evolution of animal life on Earth; and how its legacies still affect us today.McGhee investigates the consequences of the Late Paleozoic ice age in this comprehensive portrait of the effects of ancient climate change on global ecology. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction examines the climatic conditions that allowed for the evolution of gigantic animals and the formation of the largest tropical rainforests ever to exist, which in time turned into the coal that made the industrial revolution possible—and fuels the engine of contemporary anthropogenic climate change. Exploring the strange and fascinating flora and fauna of the Late Paleozoic ice age world, McGhee focuses his analysis on the forces that brought this world to an abrupt and violent end. Synthesizing decades of research and new discoveries, this comprehensive book provides a wealth of insights into past and present extinction events and climate change.Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Literature Now)
Par Sarah Phillips Casteel. 2016
In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled…
from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and Jewish studies, Calypso Jews enriches cross-cultural investigations of Caribbean creolization.Caribbean writers invoke both the 1492 expulsion and the Holocaust as part of their literary archaeology of slavery and its legacies. Despite the unequal and sometimes fraught relations between Blacks and Jews in the Caribbean before and after emancipation, Black-Jewish literary encounters reflect sympathy and identification more than antagonism and competition. Providing an alternative to U.S.-based critical narratives of Black-Jewish relations, Casteel reads Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, Michelle Cliff, Jamaica Kincaid, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, and Paul Gilroy, among others, to reveal a distinctive interdiasporic literature.Daily Bible Study Spring 2021
Par Clara K. Welch. 2020
A great companion to Adult Bible Studies, Daily Bible Study can also be used as a stand-alone study. It is…
presented in quarterly segments. Bible-based, and Christ-focused, it coordinates with the lesson themes of Adult Bible Studies. Each lesson includes a one-page Bible study for each day of the quarter, along with introductory reflection questions and commentary on the daily Scripture passage, life application, and a concluding prayer.Spring Theme: HolyThis spring, DAILY BIBLE STUDY presents a series of readings supporting the theme “Holy.” Readings come from both Old and New Testament texts. These daily readings, which prepare us for the 13 lessons in Adult Bible Studies, are written by Randy Cross, Susan Groseclose, and Clara Welch.Holy LivingThe daily readings in this unit help us focus on living as holy people, ways we can nurture holiness in our lives, physical holiness, and prayer and holiness.New in ChristThe readings in this unit support the apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 5:17. Readings in the first week highlight Jesus’ resurrection, which is the basis for our new creation. Subsequent readings challenge us to consider some of the ways we are new in Christ: we live by new standards, we behave differently, and we allow ourselves to become carriers of the gospel message.God RevealedThe five weeks of daily readings in this unit explore some of the ways God has revealed God’s self in the biblical account, including self-declaration, quietness, through Jesus, visions, and love. God is not limited to these avenues of expression, of course, but these help us grasp some of the scope of the ways God comes to us.The Baptism of Billy Bean: A Novel
Par Roger Skipper. 2009
Lane Hollar's seen little of the world beyond West Virginia—Parris Island and Vietnam—but that was enough. Now, thirty years later,…
he's estranged from his only son, Frank, and from society at large. Lane has his grandson, Toby; his daughter–in–law, Darlene; his bait shop; and his banjo, and he desires or needs nothing else.But then one day, he and Toby are out fishing when they witness a drug–related murder. Suddenly, the boundaries of his world are no longer his to define. An investigation rules the drowning accidental but reveals the witnesses to the perpetrators, and without preamble, Lane is fighting for his life. Caught between inept—or corrupt—lawmen and a stone–cold killer, Lane finds that his long–neglected survival skills are, like Lane himself, obsolete and ludicrous in a world gone mad.In a rolling war through Appalachia's forests and towns, Lane must fight not only for his life, but for all the things that it has lacked: love, family, and peace.