| Author | : Kristin C. Bloomer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190615095 |
Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in Tamil Nadu, south India who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. The author follows the lives of these women over many years, investigating questions about gender, social power, agency, and authenticity.
| Author | : Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-09-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307401936 |
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
| Author | : Adam C. Blai |
| Publisher | : Emmaus Road Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2017-08-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1945125608 |
How do you fight an enemy you can’t see? In this field guide to defense against the demonic, Adam Blai, an expert in religious demonology and exorcism for the diocese of Pittsburgh, shares information and advice gained over years of extensive experience with the paranormal. Review the scriptural evidence about demons—who were cast down to earth, not hell—and the tricks they play to try to gain influence in our lives. You’ll also discover the tools the Church has developed for us to combat and resist the forces of evil. Written in an easy-to-read style, this book is perfect for the Catholic looking to learn more about the invisible forces hell-bent on the destruction of your soul—and how to claim the victory Christ has already won.
| Author | : Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet |
| Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2015-10-12 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1622823079 |
Spiritual meditation is the surest way to grow in holiness, and Our Lady is truly an example of perfection. This combination makes Meditations on Mary a spiritual powerhouse that will lift your soul to God and help you along the path to heaven. Meditations on Mary features twenty-four of the most powerful and moving meditations written by 17th Century Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet —considered to be one of the best homilists in the history of the Church. Author of Meditations for Lent and Meditations for Advent, Bishop Bossuet has been admired for his piety and eloquence for over three hundred years. Now his meditations on Our Lady are available to you in English — for the very first time! Although we know Our Lady serves as a perfect example of how a Christian should live and bear witness to Our Lord, Scripture contains only a few glimpses of her life, leaving our knowledge limited and our imagination wanting. In these pages, Bishop Bossuet takes you on a stunning pilgrimage through the principal mysteries of Our Lady’s life. He masterfully blends what he’s learned from Sacred Scripture with the spiritual traditions rooted in the heart of the Church, and illuminates it with his own theological reflections. He’ll bring you to a deeper understanding of Our Lady's compassion, her suffering during Christ’s Passion, and the loneliness she felt after his Ascension to heaven. Bishop Bossuet will show you how Jesus brings honor to himself by honoring his mother, and how Our Lady is extraordinary solely because of her alliance with Jesus. Mary teaches us how to let God direct our steps, how to remain humble in commanding and obeying, and how to seek holiness through our daily work. She shows us how to pray with humility and perseverance, to advance in perfection, and, by doing all these things, to conform ourselves to the holy will of God. Each short meditation is worthy of your contemplation, because each contains a lesson directly from the Blessed Mother to sinners like you and me.
| Author | : Paul Boyer |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1976-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674282663 |
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.
| Author | : Ven Mary of Agreda |
| Publisher | : TAN Books |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 1997-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1618903098 |
A shorter and faster reading popular abridgement of the Mystical City of God, this book just flows and flows. It includes Our Lady's participation in the events of Our Lord's Passion and death. It shows how the Angels served the Blessed Virgin, how the devils waged war against her, the special graces she received--such as, continual Eucharistic presence of Our Lord after she received Communion, frequent visits to Heaven during her life on earth, etc. Imprimatur
| Author | : TIENDJO PAGOUE PIERRE |
| Publisher | : Pierre TIENDJO PAGOUE |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2022-11-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
If you don't know how to fight witches, night husbands, night wives: read this book. If you want to be stronger in the most difficult spiritual battles, read this book. Wherever this book is read, the demons flee. If you want to break the mystical chains that encircle your life or the life of someone close to you, read this book. If you are unable to break free from the curses or failures that hang over your life, read this book. This book is a guide to being a great charismatic. With this book, you will master the nuts and bolts of spiritual warfare and become a Christian that the devil fears... The Lord will answer you with fire. Every time you read this book, you will feel as if the author is beside you, directing your spiritual warfare prayer. Like a father, like a brother, like a friend, like a guardian angel, the author of this book is with you. You will feel your deliverance taking place
| Author | : David Mosse |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2012-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520273494 |
“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age
| Author | : Nicky Hallett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2017-11-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351143026 |
Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in exile in an English convent in the Spanish Netherlands. The two women left behind an extensive set of personal writing that reveals unprecedented detail about their devotional lives and spiritual states before, during and after exorcism. Unlike other similar cases, here the women write for themselves; for the first time in 350 years this book allows their voices - and their silences - to resound in all their vibrancy. An extensive introduction discusses the politics of piety and possession at a time when exorcism had become increasingly contentious, amidst conflicting claims for rival church reform. The book includes both autobiographical and biographical material, written by the nuns and about them, and casting new light on processes of female self-writing at just the time when the 'modern subject' is often said to have emerged.
