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Collective Ink Practically Pagan – An Alternative Guide to
Book SynopsisIn Practically Pagan – An Alternative Guide to Planet Friendly Living, Mabh Savage brings Pagan paths and green living together. Mabh Savage explores the connections between environmentalism and paganism, shedding light on the small but powerful changes individuals can make to live a planet-friendly lifestyle.
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Collective Ink Naming the God
Book SynopsisNaming the God is a companion volume to the landmark anthology Naming the Goddess. It presents a series of critical essays discussing many of the aspects of male deity and offers a spiritual gazetteer of over fifty gods.
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Collective Ink Pagan Portals - The Inner-City Path: A Simple
Book SynopsisPagan Portals – The Inner-City Path: A Simple Pagan Guide to Well-Being and Awareness was inspired by Chet Raymo’s book of similar title that chronicled his own daily urban walk to work and his observing the seasonal changes with a scientist’s curiosity. The Inner-City Path is written from a pagan perspective, for those times when we take to our local urban paths as part of our daily fitness regime or dog walk. It is based on several urban walks that have merged together over the years to make up a book of the seasons and offers a glimpse into the pagan mind-set that can find mystery under every leaf and rock along the way. A simple guide to achieving a sense of well-being and awareness.
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Collective Ink Pagan Portals - Sexual Dynamics in the Circle:
Book SynopsisOne of the most significant social changes in the 20th-century was the wedge driven between the males and females of Craft as a result of social media and political feminism. From a purely magical point of view the battle of the sexes has been one of the most negative crusades in the history of mankind since everything in the entire Universe is made up from a balance or harmony of opposite energies. Men and women are different as night and day but still part of the same homo sapiens coin, regardless of their individual sexuality.
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Collective Ink Earth Spirit: The Circle of Life is Broken: An
Book SynopsisThe Circle of Life is more than the food web. It’s a self-organizing system of global life-cooperation and energy dissipation. Its balance and stability have been taken for granted for millennia. But in the age of the climate crisis, the Circle is breaking down. From the 1960s onward, philosophers, artists and spiritual teachers promoted the idea of the ‘Green Self’ to help us understand how the Circle works, and how we harm ourselves when we damage it. But in all that time, the climate crisis only got worse. The Greening of the Self didn't happen. Using the science of ecology and a deep dive into human nature, this book explores what the Circle of Life really is, and what becomes of us when we face it in different ways. The exploration reveals a deeper eco-spiritual perspective, in which the Immensity of the Earth, and the breakdown of the Circle, are calls to action: to heal the Circle, and to create a better world.
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Collective Ink Pagan Portals - 21st Century Fairy: The Good Folk
Book SynopsisWhen people think of fairies they often picture beings who dwell in the wilderness, solidly anchored in the past. Yet the truth is that fairies are as present and active in the world today as ever, found as easily in cities as they are in wild places. 21st Century Fairy explores fairy beliefs and encounters in the modern world, framed by folklore, modern fiction and personal experience, to show readers the possibilities that are out there. Learn whether fairies evolve and what a modern city in the fairy world might be like. Be open to the possibility of tech fairies existing alongside fairies in nature and learn how they interact with human technology. Much like the human world, the fairy world is stunningly diverse and constantly changing. 21st Century Fairy is a guide to seekers who want a modern context for these ancient beings.
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Collective Ink Magic of Serpents, The
Book SynopsisA remnant from the age of the dinosaur, the serpent was originally a symbol of arcane knowledge from the old gods. Transformed into the devil for tempting Eve to eat from the forbidden tree, the serpent has remained the villain ever since. Scott Irvines’s The Magic of Serpents is a profound search for the symbolism and worldwide mythology - at the religious, philosophical and spiritual levels - for which the serpent stands.
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Collective Ink Radiant Circles: Ecospirituality & the Church of
Book SynopsisRadiant Circles is an examination of both Ecospirituality and the Church of all Worlds, a specific NeoPagan organisation inspired by a science fiction novel and founded by Oberon Zell, a practicing Wizard. The book ranges widely in its historical, cultural and theological exploration of the Church and discusses its role and place as both as a unique Neo-Pagan and futurist New Religious Movement.
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Collective Ink Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring: How to Survive
Book SynopsisCandlemas/Imbolc is the re-awakening of the Old Lass within Old Craft belief and also coincides with the Roman Candelaria and Fornicalia - a spring corn festival celebrated in honour of Fornax, goddess of ovens, and observed by each ward of the city. All this merging of primitive origins and rites, belonging to the European pre-urban agricultural culture, meant that it also commemorated the search for Persephone by her mother and the festival of candles symbolizing the return of the Light. So it continued to be performed until the Christian era, when it was transformed into Candalmas in AD494. In pre-Christian times, Imbolc observance began the night before 1st February, and celebrants prepared for a visit from Brigid into their homes by crafting an effigy of the goddess from bundles of oats and rushes. The clothed effigy was placed in a basket overnight, and the day was celebrated by burning lamps and lighting bonfires in tribute to her. Traditions from both the pagan celebration and the Christian observance of St. Brigid’s Day can be found in the modern Imbolc festivities - while celebrants sometimes make a Brigid’s Cross out of reeds, as well as a Brigid corn doll or effigy.
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Collective Ink Fairy Path, A: The Memoir of a Young Fairy Seer
Book SynopsisAn autobiographical work offering unique insights into the practice of fairy ritual healers of Romania, A Fairy Path: The Memoir of a Young Fairy Seer in Training follows a very young Daniela, whose rebellious streak and decision to pursue the path of fairy seership clash against societal norms and restrictions imposed by a dictatorial political regime. Filled with fairy occurrences, charms, spells, and ritual work directly experienced by the author, A Fairy Path does more than just tell a story: It provides material that substantiates the reality of fairy phenomena in modern times while offering those who follow a fairy-based spiritual path resources for study and practice.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Das Bekennerschreiben: Eine
Book SynopsisDiese Studie untersucht das Bekennerschreiben des Hanau-Attentäters mit der Interpretationstechnik der objektiven Hermeneutik. Methodisch kontrolliert generiert sie Einsichten in die Erzeugungsbedingungen des Bekennerschreibens, wie es bereits gesellschaftlich präformiert vorliegt. Die Forschung geht der Frage nach, ob das Attentat in Hanau und die dahinterliegende rechtsextremistische Gesinnung auf einen Einzelfall reduziert werden kann oder ob beide Phänomene bereits gesellschaftlich präformiert vorliegen. Diesen Punkt transzendiert die Analyse, indem sie aus dem konkret vorliegenden Bekennerschreiben den Prämissen der objektiven Hermeneutik folgend Strukturmerkmale und Mentalitäten des „Neuen Rechten Milieus” abstrahiert und empirisch fundiert.Table of ContentsRelevanz der objektiv-hermeneutischen Analyse des Bekennerschreibens.- Forschungsstand über Rechtsextremismus und Radikalismus.- Objektive Hermeneutik als Interpretationsmethode.- Formstruktur und Analyse des Bekennerschreibens.-Diskussion der zentralen Studienbefunde.- Fazit und Ausblick.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG „Narren in Christo“: Jehovas Zeugen im
Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie ist die erste, die den Erinnerungsspuren nachgeht, die Jehovas Zeugen (Bibelforscher) in den Erzähltexten Überlebender des Nationalsozialismus hinterlassen haben. Trotz unterschiedlicher Erinnerungskulturen und -interessen seitens der Autoren ergibt sich ein einheitliches und zugleich schillerndes Bild. Häufig nur Erzählobjekte ohne eigene Stimme, bleiben sie randständig, andersartig und widersprüchlich. Jehovas Zeugen faszinieren, befremden und stören. Als Heilige, Propheten, Märtyrer, Samariter und Sündenböcke stehen sie in der Nachfolge des Sohnes Gottes. Bezüge ergeben sich auch zur Figur des christlichen Narren: nicht von dieser Welt, der Welt des nationalsozialistischen Terrors, aber zugleich in ihr und gegen sie zeugend.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorbemerkungen Und Danksagung Iv 1 Einführung 1 1.1 Textbeispiele als Ausgangspunkt 4 1.2 Forschungsüberblick 11 1.3 Inhaltliche und methodische Vorüberlegungen 16 2 Jehovas Zeugen 36 2.1 Religiöses Weltbild 41 2.2 Jehovas Zeugen und der Nationalsozialismus 47 2.3 Geschichte der Zeugen Jehovas von der Weimarer Republik bis zum Ende der NS-Zeit 58 2.4 Jehovas Zeugen im NS-Diskurs der Nachkriegszeit 71 3 Analytischer Teil: Die Literarischen Texte 82 3.1 Wolfgang Langhoff Die Moorsoldaten (1935) 82 3.1.1 Der Ich-Erzähler, der Bibelforscher Frank(e) und die Häftlingsgesellschaft in der Lichtenburg 85 3.1.2 Der Hitlergruß 93 3.1.3 Das Erzählte im Kontext der Exilliteratur 101 3.2 Robert Antelme L´espèce humaine (1947) 110 3.2.1 Der Ich-Erzähler und der Bibelforscher im Lager Gandersheim 115 3.2.2 Der Bibelforscher und das Menschengeschlecht 132 3.2.3 Der Bibelforscher und die Religionskritik im Erzähltext 148 3.3 Hans Werner Richter Sie fielen aus Gottes Hand (1951) 156 3.3.1 Der Erzählabschnitt „Bibelforscher in der Wüste“ im Romankontext 159 3.3.2 Der Bibelforscher Schiemann im Figurengefüge 163 3.3.3 Religiöse Motive 170 3.3.4 Anpassung, Widerstand und die Schuldfrage im Roman 178 3.4 Bruno Apitz Nackt unter Wölfen (1958) 193 3.4.1 Der gesellschafts- und literaturpolitische Kontext 200 3.4.2 Bruno Apitz´ Schreibstrategien 213 3.4.3 Die Handlungsfigur Förste im Buchenwalder Figurenensemble 223 3.4.4 Die Bedeutung des Kalfaktors für den Roman 234 3.5 Max von der Grün Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel (1968) 245 3.5.1 Der Bibelforscher Albert Pospischiel im Urteil der Bewohner Egers 253 3.5.2 Das Beziehungsgeflecht der Familie Pospischiel 263 3.5.3 Der Ich-Erzähler Paul Pospischiel 270 3.5.4 Die Gesellschaftsutopie des Romans 282 3.6 Jorge Semprún Quel beau dimanche! (1980) 288 3.6.1 Die Zeugen Jehovas und Jehova (Johann) 291 3.6.2 Die Beziehung zwischen dem Ich-Erzähler und dem Zeugen Jehovas 300 3.6.3 Intertextuelle Bezüge 310 3.6.4 Chronotopische Motive 318 3.6.5 Semprúns zweiter Buchenwald-Roman im Kontext seiner literarischen KZ-Erinnerungen 326 4 Zusammenfassung Und Diskussion 336 4.1 Auswertung der literarischen Texte 336 4.1.1 Zeiten und Räume 336 4.1.2 Jehovas Zeugen als Handlungsfiguren 350 4.1.3 Religiöse Aspekte der Bibelforscher-Figuren 369 4.1.4 „Narren in Christo“ 380 4.1.5 Jehovas Zeugen im Handlungszusammenhang und Figurengefüge 402 4.1.6 Darstellungsweisen 409 4.2 Die Erinnerungen der Autoren 421 4.2.1 Weltanschaulich geprägte Erinnerungen 421 4.2.2 Soldatische Erinnerungen 432 4.2.3 Die Erinnerungen der Flakhelfer-Generation 442 4.2.4 Ideologie-, selbstkritische und fiktionalisierte Erinnerungen 455 4.3 Jehovas Zeugen zwischen poetischer Anerkennung und Missachtung 465 5 Ausblick 477 5.1 Jehovas Zeugen im literarischen Erinnerungsdiskurs der Nachkriegsgeneration: Fritz Lehner Hotel Metropol 477 5.2 Epilog 490 6 Literaturverzeichnis 498 6.1 Ungedruckte und schwer zugängliche Quellen 498 6.2 Siglenverzeichnis 498 6.3 Literarische Texte zum Nationalsozialismus 499 6.4 Zusätzliche literarische Texte 504 6.5 Sekundärliteratur 506
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