[PDF] The Fate Of Earthly Things eBook

Author : Molly H. Bassett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292760884

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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world. In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.

Author : Joe Rigney
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433544768

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God’s world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. A late night with old friends around a blazing campfire. God certainly knows how to give good gifts to his children. But where is the line when it comes to enjoying all the pleasurable things our world affords? In The Things of Earth, professor Joe Rigney offers perplexed Christians a breath of fresh air by lifting the burden of false standards and impossible expectations related to the Christian life—freeing readers to gratefully embrace every good thing we receive from the hand of God. Helping us avoid our tendency to forget the Giver on the one hand and neglect his gifts on the other, this much-needed book reminds us that God’s blessings should drive us to worship and that a passion for God’s glory can be as wide as the world itself.

Author : Karen Bray
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1531503071

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Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, argues that more immanent or planetary ways of thinking and acting have great potential for re-thinking human-technology-animal-Earth relationships and for addressing problems of global climate weirding and other forms of ecological degradation. Older and often-marginalized forms of thought from animisms, shamanisms, and other religious traditions are joined by more recent forms of thinking with immanence such as the universe story, process thought, emergence theory, the new materialisms (NM’s), object-oriented ontologies (OOO’s), affect theory, and queer theory. This book maps out some of the connections and differences between immanent frameworks to provide some eco-intellectual commons for thinking within the planetary community, with a particular emphasis on making connections between more recent theories and older ideas of immanence found in many of the world’s religious traditions. The authors in this volume met and worked together over five years, so the resulting volume reveals sustained and multifaceted perspectives on “thinking and acting with the planet.”

Author : Molly Harbour Bassett
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Aztec gods
ISBN :

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The Mexica-Aztec conceived of their world as animate. Early postcontact witnesses of the surviving Mexica-Aztec and their culture described the many Central Mexican gods and goddesses with fascination but limited clarity. Similarly compelled to describe with the proliferation of Mexica-Aztec images and effigies, recent scholarship describes manifestations of this cosmic animation gods, deities, supernaturals, spirits and forces. These terms may approach how the Mexica-Aztec and other Central Mexicans spoke of the cosmic animation they divined and venerated, but these approximations have outlived their usefulness in the study of Mexica-Aztec religion.

Author : Marleen Rita Duckhorn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1462849873

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This collection of poems is a follow up to Duckhorn's previous book entitled "Say Yes To Time". "Written Rhythms of Space Travel and Earthly Things" joins hands with the times urging us all to appreciate our soul as having a unique life of its own. She encapsulates the idea of space travel, making us light heartedly aware of the dangers in our cosmos. It could become an angry region and not favor us too much in the distant future. "Written Rhythms of Space Travel and Earthly Things" about sums this up and is a pensive read.

Author : Kelly S. McDonough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 0816550387

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Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.