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Postmodernidad

Autor: Antonio Cruz Suárez

Número de Páginas: 241

El concepto de "época moderna" —desarrollado por el filósofo Hegel—, ha servido para etiquetar el pensamiento y estilo de vida de la sociedad occidental desde finales de la Edad Media hasta nuestros días. Pero hace ya algunos años que este período muestra serios síntomas de declive. La sociedad moderna está cambiando rápidamente para dejar paso a la postmodernidad, una nueva filosofía de vida que propone, –como alternativa al fracaso del estado del bienestar–, una estetización de la vida, la eliminación de toda norma, el relativismo de las conductas y el politeísmo de los valores. ¿Cuál ha de ser la actitud del cristianismo y de las iglesias ante este cambio trascendental? En los últimos años hemos sido testigos de grandes cambios sociales y culturales en Occidente, cambios originados por la búsqueda contínua del hombre de un fundamento. Ayer había esperanza en la razón, la fe y la ciencia. Hoy existe el desaliento, la muerte de las ideas y los valores, el surgimiento de la verdad relativa y el individualismo. Esta nueva manera de pensar que difiere de las ideas y los valores, el surgimiento de la verdad relativa y el individualismo. Esta nueva manera...

Camion Blanc

Autor: Xavier Yvanoff

Número de Páginas: 275

Le sabbat, la messe noire, la réunion satanique, l'antique rituel païen et sauvage, la fête érotique et diabolique se sont fixés dans l'imaginaire de toutes les contrées, sauvages ou civilisées du monde. D'un siècle à l'autre, on lui donnera le nom que l'on voudra, mais le fait est que la cérémonie infernale est toujours présente sous une forme ou sous une autre, se renouvelant comme de sa propre substance à chaque nouvelle génération. C'est toujours ce même scénario répétitif et familier, cet instant festif et tabou qui s'est inexorablement fixé dans nos esprits. D'où vient-il ? Comment et à partir de quels matériaux la réjouissance nocturne et endiablée s'est-elle élaborée au cours des siècles jusqu'à prendre la forme du sabbat des démonologues des XVe et XVIe siècles, générer ensuite le furieux scénario quasi-mondain des messes noires au siècle suivant, et un peu plus tard les funestes cérémonies du satanisme moderne ?

Speak of the Devil

Autor: Jean Sybil La Fontaine

Número de Páginas: 242

The first modern allegations of satanic sexual abuse surfaced in North America during the 1980s, followed a few years later by similar allegations in Britain. Professor La Fontaine, an anthropologist, has studied the literature on satanic abuse in England and conducted a detailed analysis of a number of actual cases. She found no evidence of devil worship. She concludes that behind the hysteria is a social movement, comparable to classic instances of witchcraft accusations and the witch hunts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

Evil Incarnate

Autor: David Frankfurter

Número de Páginas: 305

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder,...

The Myth of Moral Panics

Autor: Bill Thompson , Andy Williams

Número de Páginas: 376

This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.

ThirdWay

Número de Páginas: 32

Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

Théatre complet de Al. Dumas fils ...: La dame aux camélias. Dianne de Lys. Le bijou de la reine

Autor: Alexandre Dumas

Número de Páginas: 444

The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic

Autor: Mary De Young

Número de Páginas: 284

In the United States during the early 1980s, hundreds of day care providers were accused of sexually abusing their young charges in satanic rituals that included blood drinking, cannibalism, and human sacrifice. The panic surrounding the ritual abuse of children has spread quickly to Canada, Europe, and Australasia, and its rapid dispersion has been unimpeded by international investigations that found no evidence to corroborate the allegations and warned that a moral panic was thrusting them into professional public attention. This work is a sociologically based analysis of the day care ritual abuse panic in America. It introduces the concept of moral panic and analyzes its relevance to the ritual abuse scare, explores the ideological, political, economic, and professional forces that fomented the panic, discusses the McMartin Preschool case as the incident that brought attention to satanic menaces and children, and examines the dialect between the various interest groups that stirred up and spread the moral panic and the day care providers accused of ritual abuse. Also covered are the popular culture representations of day care ritual abuse, the diffusion of the scare to areas...

Follow the Stars Home

Autor: Luanne Rice

Número de Páginas: 500

Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author of A Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be—and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness. Follow the Stars Home is just such a novel: a story of poignancy and heartbreak, grace and courage. Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newborn—almost alone. It was Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother's wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any man—especially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that...

The Hope Within

Autor: Tracie Peterson

Número de Páginas: 398

Tragedy may tear the Selby family apart in this riveting conclusion to Tracie Peterson's wonderful and bestselling Montana saga.

Behind Enemy Lines

Autor: Charles H. Kraft , Mark White

Número de Páginas: 298

Examines biblically based methods for engaging in effective spiritual warfare.

Secrets You Keep from Yourself

Autor: Dan Neuharth

Número de Páginas: 308

This insightful guide is an exploration of how and why people undermine their happiness and lose touch with their "best" selves. Counterproductive self-deception, a universal behavior, is a habit that can be broken. People keep themselves from having what they want, a phenomenon known as "self-handicapping." Offering poignant examples, innovative tools, and a compassionate perspective, Dan Neuharth reveals how to vanquish self-imposed roadblocks and avoid unnecessary losses in order to embrace and share the best in oneself.

Esclaves du XXe siècle : les enfants dans les sectes

Autor: Chantal Tokatlian

Número de Páginas: 202

Journaliste, Chantal Tokatlian a été membre d’une secte. Comment l’avait-elle rencontrée ? Tout bêtement, par un tract trouvé dans sa boîte aux lettres. Le même hasard peut conduire un de vos proches, un adolescent fragile dans ce havre où tout est paix de l’âme et du cœur, d’après du moins les textes des brochures ou les adeptes des sectes chargés du prosélytisme. Chantal Tokatlian n’a pas mis trop de temps à s’apercevoir que la Secte était en fait un univers fermé et totalitaire. Effarée, elle a constaté le triste sort des enfants, réduits à rien, peu ou pas instruits, mal nourris, pas soignés - le Gourou y pourvoira ! - traités comme une main-d’œuvre commode et souvent comme des objets sexuels. Grâce à son esprit lucide et foncièrement indépendant, elle réussit à sortir du piège. Mais le contact avec ce monde étrange et malfaisant lui a donné l’envie d’enquêter sur les différentes sectes en France, en Europe et dans le monde, et particulièrement sur le sort des enfants au sein de celles-ci. Le résultat de ce « voyage » est aussi fou que révoltant.

Finite Elements in Civil Engineering Applications

Autor: Max.a.n. Hendriks , J.a. Rots

Número de Páginas: 568

These proceedings present high-level research in structural engineering, concrete mechanics and quasi-brittle materials, including the prime concern of durability requirements and earthquake resistance of structures.

Intimate Enemies

Autor: Philip Jenkins

Número de Páginas: 288

Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the the 1980s - a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: sexual abuse of children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder. It was widely alleged that such practices became more common during the decade, and the notoriety attracted major attention from the mass media, as well as from agencies in law enforcement, social welfare, and mental health.

Lettres inédites

Autor: Diane De Poitiers (duchess Of Valentinois)

Número de Páginas: 428

Drug Therapy in Nursing

Autor: Diane S. Aschenbrenner , Samantha J. Venable

Número de Páginas: 1348

This text presents a totally nursing-focused framework for teaching and learning nursing pharmacology, and "places the patient" at the center of all drug administration decisions and considerations. The book presents core drug knowledge using prototypes of different drug classes and emphasizes core patient variables that influence the patient's response to therapy. This thoroughly updated Third Edition covers newly approved drugs, has separate chapters on drugs affecting fungal and viral infections, and includes more pathophysiology information. FDA Black Box warnings have been added to the discussion of each prototype when applicable, and safety alerts have been added to emphasize prevention of common medication errors. A companion Website offers student and instructor ancillaries including NCLEX®-style questions, pathophysiology animations, medication administration videos, and dosage calculation quizzes.

Breast Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

Autor: Robyn L. Birdwell

Número de Páginas: 263

Imaging of the breast can be one of the most challenging tasks in all of radiology. This issue not only covers all of the modalities (plain film, multislice CT, MRI, US, and nuclear medicine and molecular imaging it also provides discussions on the controversy regarding when women should be screened, the costs involved in breast imaging, and the appropriate use of screening.

Silent Film's Last Hurrah

Autor: David Meuel

Número de Páginas: 212

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts--in the face of inescapable technological change--to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

Jakarta EE Recipes

Autor: Josh Juneau

Número de Páginas: 871

Take a problem-solution approach to programming enterprise Java applications and microservices for cloud-based solutions, enterprise database applications, and even small business web applications. This book provides effective and proven code snippets that you can immediately use to accomplish just about any task that you may encounter. You can feel confident using the reliable solutions that are demonstrated in this book in your personal or corporate environment. Java EE was made open source under the Eclipse Foundation, and Jakarta EE is the new name for what used to be termed the Java Enterprise Edition Platform. This book helps you rejuvenate your Java expertise and put the platform’s latest capabilities to use in quickly developing robust applications. If you are new to Jakarta EE, this book will help you learn features of the platform, and benefit from one of the most widely used and powerful technologies available for application development today. Examples in Jakarta EE Recipes highlight Jakarta EE’s capabilities, helping you to build streamlined and reliable applications using the latest in Java technologies. The book takes a problem-solution approach in which each...

ThirdWay

Número de Páginas: 32

Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

The Lost Queen of England

Autor: H. Elizabeth Owen

Número de Páginas: 455

AFTER AN ARCHAEOLOGIST BEGINS A COVETED DIG IN EGYPT, SHE UNEARTHS AN ANCIENT MYSTERY THAT UNITES HER WITH A LOST QUEEN . . . AND HER OWN DESTINY. Broiling in the stifling heat of the Valley of the Kings, an Egyptologist impatiently awaits official permission to unseal and dismantle the wall of a tomb that has escaped discovery for thirty-three centuries. She has been given the chance of a lifetimeto dig at a coveted site where radar scans have revealed two mysterious voids beneath the sands. As the sounds of digging echo through the valley, she wonders if it is possible that long awaited answers to ancient mysteries lie just beneath the tarmac where thousands of oblivious tourists walk every day. She is about to find out. Thirteen years earlier, a royal princess asked her family to help her in a great deception. She had no idea what the future held, but there was no turning back once the course was set. Now as Egyptologists from around the world converge on Cairo, they are unaware that destiny has chosen one lost queen to find another. THE LOST QUEEN OF ENGLAND is a compelling tale that weaves its way through ancient palaces, sails up the Nile, and flies across the desert in a...

Seattle in Black and White

Autor: Joan Singler , Jean C. Durning , Bettylou Valentine , Martha (maid) J. Adams

Número de Páginas: 296

Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town. Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Operational from 1961 through 1968, CORE had a brief but powerful effect on Seattle. The chapter began by challenging one of the more blatant forms of discrimination in the city, local supermarkets. Located within the black community and dependent on black customers, these supermarkets refused to hire black employees. CORE took the supermarkets to task by organizing hundreds of volunteers into shifts of continuous picketers until stores desegregated their staffs. From this initial effort CORE, in partnership with the NAACP and other groups, launched campaigns to increase employment and housing opportunities for black Seattleites, and to address racial inequalities in Seattle public schools. The members of...

Restructuring the Hold

Autor: Thomas C. Anderson , Mark G. Habner

Número de Páginas: 371

Establishing an effective partnership and achieving improved outcomes for investors and management teams during the hold cycle Private equity represents a productive and fast-growing asset class—building businesses, creating jobs, and providing unlimited opportunity for investors and management teams alike, particularly if they know how to work together in candid and effective partnerships. Restructuring the Hold demonstrates how investors and managers can best work together to optimize company performance and the associated rewards and opportunities for everyone, not just the investors. Through brief references to the parable of the Gramm Company, a middle market portfolio company, readers will follow the disappointments and triumphs of a management team experiencing their first hold period under private equity ownership, from the day they get purchased through the day they get sold. Restructuring the Hold provides the reader both general knowledge and more detailed better practices and frameworks relating to specific time periods during the hold. Within this book readers will find: An examination of a typical middle-market private equity hold period Guidance for newly acquired ...

Lords of Chaos

Autor: Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind

Número de Páginas: 380

Just before the turn of the millennium, nearly 100 churches have been torched and desecrated by adherents of Black Metal, the most extreme form of underground music on the planet.

Making a Difference

Autor: Karen Hunter-quartz , Brad Olsen , Lauren Anderson , Kimberly Barraza-lyons

Número de Páginas: 169

Our culture and media often simplify the choice educators face-stay in or leave classroom teaching. Written for teachers and other educational professionals, this book dispels this simple dichotomy by representing the range of responses and career pathways that enable educators to make a difference. Based on interviews with hundreds of change-minded educators, the authors share career stories and insights against a backdrop that maps out the complexities, roles, and structures that define professional advancement in education. All of the teachers in this book have taught in challenging urban contexts, fought hard to exercise their professional autonomy and responsibility to serve students well, navigated social networks of educators, friends, and family who buoy or dampen their reform spirit, and remain committed to changing society through schooling. Their stories are as instructive as they are inspiring and offer roadmaps for the current generation of change-minded educators.

Five Proofs of Christianity

Autor: Judge Bill Swann

Número de Páginas: 102

This is a serious book, but it is full of whimsy. A veteran trial-court judge writes about his faith life, which ought to be boring, right? Far from it. You are in for a joyous ride.

The Power of Halloween

Autor: Diana Millay , Craig Hamrick

Número de Páginas: 94

Halloween may be the most misunderstood holiday on the calendar, because many people don't realize the depth of its history. It has tremendous power and purpose, which benefit all of mankind--those who are with us now, and those who have moved into the hereafter. Among the dark shadows and foggy mist, the living have long searched the night on Halloween. Some catch a fleeting glimpse or vision of a loved one. Others are touched by the gift of a telepathic message. In some mysterious way, the spirits feel your every thought and hear your every word on this mystical, magical night. The Power of Halloween draws on author Diana Millay's heritage: witches and witchcraft. It does not come from history books but from stories passed on by generations of a family of mystics who have made magic since the beginning of time.

Moving Theory Into Practice

Autor: Anne R. Kenney , Oya Y. Rieger

Número de Páginas: 214

Describes techniques for the digital conversion of library and archive materials. Covers decision making in conversion and presentation, quality control techniques and practical aspects of image management and use. Describes how to move from digital conversion projects to sustainable programmes. Provides guidance on the selection of materials for digital conversion.

The Hope Within (Heirs of Montana Book #4)

Autor: Tracie Peterson

Número de Páginas: 398

1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down. Cole takes her and the children to Kansas to care for his dying father, but after the funeral, Cole's mother insists he stay and take over his inheritance. Unable to deal with her mother-in-law's cruel treatment, Dianne takes the children back to Montana alone. There, blizzards devastate the area, trapping a now pregnant Dianne at the ranch. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within--Jesus Christ--is the only hope that lasts. Book 4 of the bestselling Heirs of Montana.

School Was Our Life

Autor: Jane Roland Martin

Número de Páginas: 170

The late 1930s and early 1940s were the peak of progressive education in the United States, and Elisabeth Irwin's Little Red School House in New York City was iconic in that movement. For the first time, stories and recollections from students who attended Little Red during this era have been collected by author Jane Roland Martin. Now in their late eighties, these classmates can still sing the songs they learned in elementary school and credit the progressive education they loved with shaping their outlooks and life trajectories. Martin frames these stories from the former students "tell it like it was" point of view with philosophical commentary, bringing to light the underpinnings of the kind of progressive education employed at Little Red and commenting critically on the endeavor. In a time when the role of the arts in education and public schooling itself are under attack in the United States, Martin makes a case for a different style of education designed for the defense of democracy and expresses hope that an education like hers can become an opportunity for all.

Lettres inédites de Diane de Poytiers

Autor: Diane De Poitiers (duchess Of Valentinois)

Número de Páginas: 390

Letters to My Father

Autor: Jean-claude Blaise

Número de Páginas: 538

This book tells the autobiography of my father, his years in Haiti, and his transition as an immigrant in foreign lands. His personal account mirrors the daily struggles one may face under the Duvaliers' regimes in the sixties through the mid of eighties to cultural shock and identity in other countries. Growing up, he experiences a lot of different emotions regarding his father's absence from the home along with dealing with his sudden death that had such an impact on his life. He tells this story in a narrative to inform his deceased father about his life. In his prime years, his dad caresses the hem of his mother's skirt, expressing how close the pair were. Hence, his mother taught him domestic chores, which is culturally catered to women. Throughout his secondary years, he expresses the demise of his teacher purposely failing him to hinder him from moving forward in the next class as well as the financial difficulties he faced during his time at Diquini, a congressional school, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Luckily, his eldest brother, whom he mentions throughout his book, was a pivotal stepping stone in his success there, along with his transition in America. In hopes of creating ...

The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Autor: Richard Raiswell , Michelle D. Brock , David R. Winter

Número de Páginas: 599

Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time. The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition examines topics such as the devil's scriptural origins, medieval development, and role in witch-hunting and possession cases, as well as the influence of the demonic on contemporary issues like terrorism, political polarisation, and digital culture. Collectively, this volume demonstrates that the demonological imagination has served as part of the glue holding Western societies together. While contexts, misfortunes, and anxieties have shifted according to time and place, many of the dynamics that underlie the devil’s construction and detection have important continuities. This book, then, provides an innovative history of the anti-West—the West as seen through its anxieties, fears, and attempts to define and police itself and its boundaries. With contributions from 28 leading scholars in the field, this volume is of interest to all students and scholars of...

Coleccion general de comedias escogidas: Zelos con zelos curan

Autor: Pedro Calderón De La Barca , Agustín Moreto , Lope De Vega , Tirso De Molina , Juan Ruiz De Alarcón , Juan Pérez De Montalván , Francisco De Rojas Zorrilla , Antonio De Solís , Juan De Matos Fragoso , José De Cañizares , Antonio Mira De Amescua

Número de Páginas: 286

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