Catherine Campbell Livres

Five Bible stories of people facing difficult situations vividly retold to show us that God doesn't give up on us

Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell's work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.

A 365 devotional from Catherine Campbell that focusses on the life, ministry and teachings of Jesus.

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities thatqualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the mostinfluential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolveand to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

„Mein Mut wächst mit jedem Versuch, mich einzuschüchtern.“ Jane Austen. Steventon, 1795. Die aufgeweckte Pfarrerstochter Jane möchte nur eines: schreiben. Mit tintenverschmierten Händen durchwacht sie die Nächte und begibt sich in die Welt ihrer Heldinnen. Doch ihre Schwester Cass ist verlobt, und Jane schwant, dass ihre Mutter ganz ähnliche Pläne für ihre Zukunft schmiedet. Nur sind Jane die jungen Kerle aus dem Ort alle einerlei, bestenfalls geben sie akzeptable Tanzpartner auf den von ihr heiß geliebten Bällen ab – bis der belesene Wirbelwind Tom Lefroy aufkreuzt. Janes Herz aber muss immer wieder Enttäuschungen ertragen. Umso unermüdlicher kämpft sie für ihren größten Traum: einen Roman zu veröffentlichen. Pfarrerstochter, Schriftstellerin, Ausnahmetalent – Der Roman über das Leben von Jane Austen