The Heathen School

Download or read book The Heathen School written by John Demos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian John Demos tells the astonishing and moving story of a unique missionary project, which probes the very roots of American identity. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the United States looked outward to the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers devised a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and "civiization." Its core element was a special school for "heathen youth" drawn from all parts of the earth, and, especially, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similiar projects in their respective homelands. For some years, the school prospered, indeed became quite famous. However, when two Cherokee students courted and married local women public resolve and fundamental ideals were put to a severe test.

Download or read book Exhortation to the Heathen written by Clement of Alexandria and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both minstrels, and both were renowned in story. They are celebrated in song to this day in the chorus of the Greeks; the one for having allured the fishes, and the other for having surrounded Thebes with walls by the power of music. Another, a Thracian, a cunning master of his art (he also is the subject of a Hellenic legend), tamed the wild beasts by the mere might of song; and transplanted trees—oaks—by music. I might tell you also the story of another, a brother to these—the subject of a myth, and a minstrel—Eunomos the Locrian and the Pythic grasshopper. A solemn Hellenic assembly had met at Pytho, to celebrate the death of the Pythic serpent, when Eunomos sang the reptile’s epitaph.

Download or read book Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu written by Michael J. Altman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Before Americans wrote about "Hinduism," they wrote about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." Americans used the heathen, Hindoo, and Hindu as an other against which they represented themselves. The questions of American identity, classification, representation and the definition of "religion" that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past still animate American debates today.

Download or read book 'The Heathen in his Blindness...' written by S.N. Balagangadhara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b) members from different cultures experience many aspects of the world differently; (c) the empirical and theoretical study of both culture and religion emerged within the West. The present study argues that these truisms have implications for the conceptualization of religion and culture. More specifically, the thesis is that non-western cultures and religions differ from the descriptions prevalent in the West, and it is also explained why this has been the case. The author proposes novel analyses of religion, the Roman 'religio', the construction of 'religions' in India, and the nature of cultural differences. Religion is important to the West because the constitution and the identity of western culture is tied to the dynamic of Christianity as a religion.

Download or read book The Unredeemed Captive written by John Demos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, The Bancroft Prize-winning historian John Devos has constructed a gripping narrative that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gilfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.

Download or read book Blackfeather Mystery School written by Irene Glasse and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery School: The Magpie Training is a foundational, full-spectrum training in empowered witchcraft. It focuses on reducing self-sabotage while providing a solid grounding in magickal theory, devotional practices, mysticism, spell-casting and ritual work, beginning spirit work, journeywork and much more. The text helps readers build a strong, safe structure for the cultivation of mystical experiences for personal growth. It can be approached as a training course complete with exercises to practice, journaling prompts, and homework, or it can be used as a supplementary source of information and skill development for practitioners who are interested in a particular area of content. Blackfeather is a synthesis and outgrowth of over 20 years in the art and practice of witchcraft and threads the needle between the structure of traditional witchcraft and the freedom of mysticism.

Download or read book The Heathen Man from My Land written by Allwell Chukwuedozie Onwu and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is Mr. Allwell C. Onwu. I was born, and raised in one of the most olden family in West African Nigeria. I was nine years old when I lusted my father in the month of July 13th of 1986. It was a total lust and disappointment on my own side in terms of Education and gender orientation. Mom and good friends, those of my age mates never gave up hope in my own abilities to get things done, in our community and within and outside of such parameters. I was able to focus and graduated my secondary school in the year 1997. During my entire educational carrier, I was among the best in my school years. Life have never been the same again in my family since I took up the stand that all men survived, but I so much admitted that we as the younger once in this twenty first centuries must place our school bags in a height that can be easily reached with or without another's assistance. All hope was never lost throughout my entire carriers in life, I did made the right choice; to stand out for peace and freedom of every man, first in my family, and last within my own immediate family. Every other thing was observatory from role models that are around me, just like those once in your own families; we never talk to each other but we all see one another for what they can do as much as they are able to represent themselves as such. I am a man from Nkerehi Town. A citizen of United State of America at this time of the year. I believed that my stories will change your life for good; I required that you take time, one thing at a time; to always make it to the upward directions of the ladder, until you touch the roof, you are not in any better position to climb your way down.