Jesus and Spiral of Violence, Paperback - Richard A. Horsley

Reducere. From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewa...

DescriptionBuilding on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jes...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's miss...

Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): Richard A. HorsleyNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 236 x 159 x 22Cover...

Reducere. Economic justice is the core of the biblical tradition. In this innovative volume, Horsley takes the reader deep in examining how Jesus' economic p...

Reducere. The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of the ancient and classical world: the Assyrians, t...

Reducere. Despite evidence of warfare and violent conflict in pre-Columbian North America, scholars argue that the scale and scope of Native American violenc...

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Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in "primitive societies." The war machine is the motor of the social machine;...

The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence. I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at ...

Nathacha Appanah returns with a powerful, beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten islandPublisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): ...

"Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together." That's the genius of Johnny Cash, and that's what the gospel is ultimately all about.Johnny Cash san...

Reducere. In this landmark work, Allen Morris Jones spends a year exploring one of the wildest ecosystems in North America, hunting and examining the philoso...

DescriptionHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual ...

25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, un...

Reducere. In this modern classic Richard Burridge offers an engaging introduction to the New Testament Gospels. Using the ancient visual symbols for the Gosp...

An in-depth exploration of the random acts of violence that reverberate across our communities and strike at the heart of our societyIllustrations:...

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

Reducere. Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Sean LiscomJason Sterling had a simple life by all accounts. He had worked the same job his entire adult life, he had n...

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Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

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From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that b...

Reducere. DescriptionHaunted by the past and his own limitations, Israeli Detective Avraham Avraham must stop a criminal ruthless enough to target children i...

Reducere. 24 Tales of Madmen, Monsters, and Misery.A tantalizing blend of horror, suspense, and crime stories; each unique but all dark, disturbing, and viol...

A world-renowned scholar explores and explains the two views of God in the Bible - the violent God of vengeance and retribution and the non-violent...

Reducere. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street viole...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

Reducere. From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a "thought-provoking meditation" (Seattl...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Reducere. What if Jesus was serious about loving our enemies?For too long, those who carry the name "Christian" have ignored the Christlike path of enemy-lov...

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

Reducere. In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more...

DescriptionWhat does Jesus have to say about violence, just war, and killing? Does Jesus ever want his disciples to kill in order to resist evil an...

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If movies and popular culture shape us from an early age, how do we separate the real from the imaginary?

The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safetyPublisher:...

Reducere. One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books from 2015 The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. The history of North America is...

To better understand school violence this Element provides a comprehensive meta-analysis of the school violence and victimization literature. Using...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardNumerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus' Seven Last Words. But Richard John...

Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

Reducere. No one who belongs to a cult believes they are in a cult.Most people who join cults are seeking freedom, truth, and happiness. They are trying to g...

Reducere. This is a love story. The story of the world before, but mostly after the day Imagine becomes possible. A tale of dreams and a revolution in love.I...

Reducere. Published to critical acclaim in 1959 and long out of print, Crusader Without Violence was the first biography of the dynamic leader who emerged fr...

Reducere. With violence of all kinds -- from child abuse and domestic violence to hate crimes and stalking -- at an all-time high, today's counselors must be...

From a bright new talent comes a twisting psychological thriller with a shocking conclusion, perfect for fans of In A Dark Dark Wood and The Widow.

Reducere. The pieces are in place. The curtain rises for the final act. God is about to die.An unprecedented conspiracy of injustice, cruelty, and religious ...

Prince Cyril has been content spending most of his young life inside his castle, making up stories about mythical creatures and living in his own i...