Author: Kelly J. Murphy File Type: pdf Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture (in television, film, comic books, and popular fiction), in politics (in debates on climate change, environmentalism, Middle East policy, and military planning), and in various religious traditions. Academic interest in apocalypticism is flourishing indeed, the study of both ancient and contemporary apocalyptic phenomena has long been a focus of attention in scholarly research and a ready way to engage the religious studies classroom. Apocalypses in Context is designed for just such a classroom, bringing together the insights of scholars in various fields and using different methods to discuss the manifestations of apocalyptic enthusiasm in different ages (Part I Ancient Apocalyptic Literature Part II Apocalypticism through the Ages Part III Apocalypticism in the Contemporary World). This approach enables the instructor to make connections and students to recognize continuities and contrasts across history. Apocalypses in Context features illustrations, graphs, study questions, and suggestions for further reading after each chapter, as well as recommended media and artwork to support the college classroom. **

Author: Rebecca A. Carte File Type: pdf The son of an encomendero, Baltasar Obregon was twenty years old when he joined the 1564 expedition led by the first governor of Nueva Vizcaya, Francisco de Ibarra. The purpose of the expedition was to establish mining settlements in the borderlands of New Spain and to suppress indigenous rebellions in the region. Although Obregons role in the Ibarra expedition was that of soldier-explorer, and despite his lacking an advanced education, he would go on to compose Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva Espana twenty years later, expanding his narrative to include the years before and after his own firsthand experiences with Ibarra. Obregon depicts the storied landscape of the northern borderlands with vivid imagery, fusing setting and situation, constructing a new reality of what was, is, and should be, and presenting it as truth. In Capturing the Landscape of New Spain, Rebecca A. Carte explains how landscape performs a primary role in Obregons retelling, emerging at times as protagonist and others as antagonist. Carte argues that Obregons textualization offers one of the first renderings of the region through the Occidental cultural lens, offering insight into Spanish cultural perceptions of landscape during a period of important social and political shifts. By examining mapping and landscape discourse, Carte shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain. **Review Rebecca Carte shows us to see how narration and description, history and geography, past and present, people and land, together fashion the landscape of northern New Spain, a collection of places and non-places bound into a meaningful and usable whole. She provides a model that we can use to approach other texts from this vast corpus, texts that cry out of the sort of spatial analysis exemplified here but only too rarely brought to bear upon them.Ricardo Padron, author ofThe Spacious Word Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain Cartes sensitive reading of the cultural landscape makes a fundamental contribution to our understanding of early Spanish exploration in Mexico.Western Historical Quarterly About the Author Rebecca A. Carte is an assistant professor of Spanish at Cuyahoga Community College. Her work has appeared in Journal of the Southwest, Latin American Literary Review, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.

Author: John Stratton Hawley File Type: pdf Every year thousands of pilgrims travel to Brindavan, the village where Krishna is said to have lived as a child. There, they witness a series of religious dramas called ras lilas, whose central roles are performed by children. By translating four plays that collectively span this cycle, John Hawley provides a lively perspective on the mythology of Krishna as Hindus experience it today. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. **

Author: Chongqing Wu File Type: pdf This exciting book is a product of over ten years of work of the authors native village. From beginning to end it enters dialogue with a variety of domestic and overseas scholarship, providing new empirical data and many surprising discoveries.