Darkened Enlightenment

Darkened Enlightenment
Author: Tim Delaney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 100007160X

The premise of Darkened Enlightenment is to highlight the fact that there currently exist a number of socio-political forces that have the design, or ultimate consequence, of trying to extinguish the light of reason and rationality. The book presents a critique of modernity and provides a socio-political and cultural analysis of world society in the early twenty-first century. Specifically, this analysis examines the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and rational thought. Key features include a combination of academic analysis that draws on numerous and specific examples of the growing darkness that surrounds us along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of popular culture references and featured boxes. The general audience will also be intrigued by these same topics that concern academics including: a discussion on the meaning of "fake news"; attacks on the media and a declaration of the news media as the "enemy of the people"; the rise of populism and nationalism around the world; the deterioration of freedom and human rights globally; the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor; attempts to devalue education; a growing disbelief in science; attacks on the environment; pseudoscience as a by-product of unreasoned and irrational thinking; the political swamp; the power elites and the deep state; and the variations of Big Business that impact our daily lives. This book will make a great contribution to such fields as sociology, philosophy, political science, environmental science, public administration, economics, psychology, and cultural studies.

Blindfold

Blindfold
Author: Theo Padnos
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982120843

An award-winning journalist’s extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years—a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance that’s “the best of the genre, profound, poetic, and sorrowful” (The Atlantic). In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, fluent in Arabic, Russian, German, and French, traveled to a Turkish border town to write and report on the Syrian civil war. One afternoon in October, while walking through an olive grove, he met three young Syrians—who turned out to be al Qaeda operatives—and they captured him and kept him prisoner for nearly two years. On his first day, in the first of many prisons, Padnos was given a blindfold—a grime-stained scrap of fabric—that was his only possession throughout his horrific ordeal. Now, Padnos recounts his time in captivity in Syria, where he was frequently tortured at the hands of the al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra. We learn not only about Padnos’s harrowing experience, but we also get a firsthand account of life in a Syrian village, the nature of Islamic prisons, how captors interrogate someone suspected of being CIA, the ways that Islamic fighters shift identities and drift back and forth through the veil of Western civilization, and much more. No other journalist has lived among terrorists for as long as Theo has—and survived. As a resident of thirteen separate prisons in every part of rebel-occupied Syria, Theo witnessed a society adrift amid a steady stream of bombings, executions, torture, prayer, fasting, and exhibitions, all staged by the terrorists. Living within this tide of violence changed not only his personal identity but also profoundly altered his understanding of how to live. Offering fascinating, unprecedented insight into the state of Syria today, Blindfold is “a triumph of the human spirit” (The New York Times Book Review)—combining the emotional power of a captive’s memoir with a journalist’s account of a culture and a nation in conflict that is as urgent and important as ever.

The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors

The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors
Author: Tim Delaney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-05-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000584755

The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought as the culture of shamelessness continues to grow and cast its repulsive dark shadow over those who embrace enlightened reason and basic human rights for all. Diversity of Darkness is an innovative work and represents the third book of a trilogy written by the author that underscores the reality that there are many shamefully hateful and deadly behavioral threats that have jeopardized the very notions of civility, decency and justice around the world. This unique book utilizes evidence-based approaches in the examination of human behaviors in society that have become increasingly shameful and tolerated among a growing number of enablers. Key features include a combination of academic analyses that draw on numerous and specific examples of the diversity of darkness that encompasses the world along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of contemporary culture references and featured popular culture boxes. Social scientists, social thinkers and the general audience alike will be intrigued by the diversity of topics covered, including anti-civil rights movements; the rise of supremacist groups; hate crimes; mass shootings and active shootings; terrorism, war and genocide; an increase in shameful behaviors and attempts to shame others; and attacks on science, reason and rationality. We should realize that humanity has the intellect to accomplish great feats but heed the growing culture of shamelessness, irrationality and the diversity of darkness.

The Darkened Light of Faith

The Darkened Light of Faith
Author: Melvin L. Rogers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2025-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 069122076X

A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition—a tradition that is urgently needed today. The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, and James Baldwin thought about the politics, people, character, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also saw that achieving racial justice wouldn’t absolve us of the darkest features of our shared past, and that democracy must be measured by how skillfully we confront a history that will forever remain with us. An ambitious account of the profound ways African Americans have reimagined democracy, The Darkened Light of Faith offers invaluable lessons about how to grapple with racial injustice and make democracy work.

A Revolution of the Mind

A Revolution of the Mind
Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691152608

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the Beast, 666

the Beast, 666
Author: S. A. Abakwue
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2004
Genre:
ISBN: 0595302726

As Above, so Below

As Above, so Below
Author: Chet Morelli
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450223672

Take a walk with a man named Ben C. Benson as he travels down the old, winding, dirt road of life and death. Mr. Benson has thirteen appointments that he must arrive at on time. He meets a man named Mr. Parks, and together they travel a road that nobody knows about; a road of life vs. death, a road of creation vs. destruction, a road of love vs. hate, a winding road of GOD vs. Satan. Walk down the same road that leads you from antiquity and into the future. Will Mr. Parks escape from his past and does Mr. Benson hold the key to his future? Together they walk down the old, winding, dirt road; all the way from the Garden of Eden, onto the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and into the futuristic Earth in the year 2020. Some people say, The past will repeat itself. If this is true, then what does the future hold for Mr. Benson and Mr. Parks? Take a walk down the old, winding, dirt road with the thirteen appointments in time. Sojourn with Mr. Benson and Mr. Parks to find out the truth of what lies upon the road of life. The question is my friend: Do you want to know the truth?

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Author: Tim Delaney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2024-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1003846742

The second edition of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory provides wraparound coverage of the classical social theorists and influential sociological schools of thought in the contemporary period. Explained carefully and clearly throughout, Tim Delaney reviews the key concepts and contributions from brilliant classical social thinkers and recent sociological thought, spanning over 500 years of source material. He weaves together profiles of leading theorists, thorough descriptions of major academic and intellectual perspectives, and discussion of prevailing themes of interest that have concerned theorists and sociologists throughout time and will likely continue to do so in the future. The book emphasizes methods of investigation and application in its overview of the field by challenging readers to think about problems critically and in relation to key sociological theories and to also apply their sociological understanding to real, everyday events. In this new edition, Delaney revisits the classical period and highlights the special contributions of American social theorists and their impact on the diversity of thought leading into the contemporary era. He attends to later schools of thought and weaves in important updates related to critical race theory and globalization. With updated context and further applications, the second edition of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory is a perfect addition to combined courses in social theory.

Psalms of a Holy Ghost Poet

Psalms of a Holy Ghost Poet
Author: Roosevelt Broussard
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2024-08-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Psalms of a Holy Ghost Poet is a compilation of songs, poetry, and spoken word written from the poetic soul of the author who is trying to understand the world we live in while struggling to walk the narrow road in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. This book contains his unique view on different issues as he perceives them through the lens of the Word and Spirit of God. Lyrics to his testimonial song "Project Child" speak to the struggles of a child growing up in poverty, the road that led to him being incarcerated on numerous occasions, and his coming to the understanding that Jesus is his only hope. The words to his poem "Society's Whore" cause one to evaluate how the church is off mission, sacrificing the moral standards of God for the sake of worldly culture and attendance. Forgive us, God! "The Problem Is..." a spoken word that addresses the issue of men being out of spiritual alignment with God and the effects it is having on our families. These and more encapsulate the spiritual journey you are about to undertake as you delve into this once-in-a-lifetime book!