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Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (eBook, PDF)
Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of New Testament texts, Gnostic treatises, and early Christian church fathers (e.g., Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage), Travis W. Proctor notes that early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and pagan religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. The tandem construction of demonic and human corporeality demonstrates how Christian authors constructed the bodies that inhabited their cosmos--human, demon, and otherwise--as part of overlapping networks or "ecosystems" of humanity and nonhumanity. Through this approach, Proctor provides not only a more accurate representation of the bodies of ancient Christians, but also new resources for reimagining the enlivened ecosystems that surround and intersect with our modern ideas of "self."- Shop: buecher
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Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture (eBook, ePUB)
Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of New Testament texts, Gnostic treatises, and early Christian church fathers (e.g., Ignatius of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage), Travis W. Proctor notes that early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and pagan religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. The tandem construction of demonic and human corporeality demonstrates how Christian authors constructed the bodies that inhabited their cosmos--human, demon, and otherwise--as part of overlapping networks or "ecosystems" of humanity and nonhumanity. Through this approach, Proctor provides not only a more accurate representation of the bodies of ancient Christians, but also new resources for reimagining the enlivened ecosystems that surround and intersect with our modern ideas of "self."- Shop: buecher
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Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min
Emperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine. But what's a villain to do after he's done... everything. With no new ambitions, he's happy to pitch in and solve the energy crisis or repel aliens invaders should the need arise, but if he had his way, he'd prefer to be left alone to explore the boundaries of dangerous science. Just as a hobby, of course. Retirement isn't easy though. If the boredom doesn't get him, there's always the Venusians. Or the Saturnites. Or the Mercurials. Or... well, you get the idea. If that wasn't bad enough, there's also the assassins of a legendary death cult and an up-and-coming megalomaniac (as brilliant as he is bodiless) who have marked Emperor for their own nefarious purposes. But Mollusk isn't about to let the Earth slip out of his own tentacles and into the less capable clutches of another. So it's time to dust off the old death ray and come out of retirement. Except this time, he's not out to rule the world. He's out to save it from the peril of the Sinister Brain! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Aiello. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003420/bk_adbl_003420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Copperhead: Ironskin, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min
Set in an alternate version of early 1900s England, Copperhead is the sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut. Helen Huntingdon is beautiful - so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face - and now has to cover her face with iron so she won’t be taken over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey. Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with the wealthy and controlling Alistair, she lives at the edges of her life, secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy procedure turns deadly, Jane goes missing - and is implicated in a murder. Meanwhile, Alistair’s influential clique Copperhead - whose emblem is the poisonous copperhead hydra - is out to restore humans to their “rightful” place, even to the point of destroying the dwarvven who have always been allies. Helen is determined to find her missing sister, as well as continue the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her own husband - and when she meets an enigmatic young revolutionary - she’s pushed to discover how far she’ll bend society’s rules to do what’s right. It may be more than her beauty at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015316/bk_adbl_015316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 479min
In A Joe BevCartoon Collection, award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents… Hard-Boiled Joe Bev: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 1 An hour of film noir parodies, including "The Mysterious Thief of Thieves", "The Safe", "The Japanese Sandman", "The Mystery of the Missing Coin", and "The Camp Kilmer Case". Joe Bev at Sea: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 2 An hour of sea adventure parodies, including "An Octopus in Trouble", "Britty the Starfish", "The Good Pirate", "Pete the Pelican", "Lola the Whale", "Birth of the Turtles", and "Sherlock Snail Finds a Home". Joe Bev Joins the Circus: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 3 An hour of big-top parodies, including "The Careless Clown", "The Happy Sweeper", "Perils of the Tiger Barn", "Sticky Wicket", and "The Mysterious Juggling Clown". Joe Bev Goes West: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 4 Two hours of horse opera parodies, including "The Deductive Mr. Horsefly", "The Mystery of the Bodiless Horseman", "Johnny the Lizard", and "The Lonely Ranger". Joe Bev in Outer Space: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 5 An hour of sci-fi parodies, including "The Crashed Martian", "The Red Moon", "The Best Robot", "The Hypersensor", and "Squidge Attack". JoeBev in the Jungle: A Joe Bev Cartoon, Volume 6 An hour of jungle adventure parodies, including "A Lion without a Roar", "Johnny the Giraffe", "The Colorless Tiger" and "Ice in the Jungle". Language: English. Narrator: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, William Melillo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006734/bk_blak_006734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the 21st century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death. Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed. The book is published by University Press of Kentucky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lesley Ann Fogle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067898/bk_acx0_067898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Silver Screen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 741min
Silver Screen presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the science fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O’Connell is one of a group of friends who have been hot-housed from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But Anjuli worries that her eidetic memory and her friendship with genuine smart boy Roy Croft has been her ticket to success, rather than any real intelligence of her own. She’s put to the test when Roy kills himself in an experiment to upload his mind into cyberspace, seeking that SF dream of bodiless immortality, which doesn’t work as expected. At the same time her boyfriend’s research has led to him harnessing himself to dubious biomechanoid technologies, which pull the user into mental symbiosis, creating hybrid consciousness – a new "I", continuous with the old, but different. "Where does life end and the machine begin?"Meanwhile Anjuli’s grasping multinational employer, OptiNet, the owner of global communications AI, 901, is locked into an increasingly bitter war with the Machine-Greens, who preach AI liberation. As the case for 901’s humanity, or otherwise, comes up before the Strasbourg Court, expert witness Anjuli is targeted by assassins and entangled in the hunt for an algorithm which is the key to machine consciousness, and which may even be the master-code of life itself.This story explores many interfaces between humans and their technologies, between the promises of science and the explanations of faith. It is written in a first-person style that mingles elements of detective story and confessional. Alongside its SF content, the book delves into the complexities of friendship, loyalty, love, and betrayal from an intimate human perspective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Riddell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016305/bk_adbl_016305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Milk Run , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 477min
It was supposed to be easy! Aason Bierak is a not-so-ordinary 21-year-old man living in the 35th century. He and his 16-year-old sister Lupe take a quick trip to the home of Planet OMCOM, a computer the size of Earth, to upgrade a crucial piece of equipment. The trip was supposed to be easy, so easy Aason's father dubbed it a milk run. After Aason and Lupe complete the upgrade, Planet OMCOM convinces them to test his latest invention, the Null Fold X-drive. This new star-drive could be the key to unlocking the galaxy. During their first excursion into Null Space, disaster strikes. Strange beings, made solely of light, pluck Lupe right out of their spaceship. Aason's only clue to her whereabouts is the last three words Lupe spoke to him before she disappeared. Embarking on a desperate search, Aason travels 68 light years to the Nu2 Lupi star system where he is assaulted by man-eating creatures, hostile colonists, walking-talking plant people and a bodiless entity named Molokai that thinks it is a god. Aason discovers his only hope of rescuing his sister is to climb aboard the largest starship ever assembled and travel at unthinkable velocities to a dimension beyond comprehension, a place where his very soul could be in jeopardy. Set in the same universe as the Rome's Revolution trilogy, The Milk Run is cinematic in scope and offers an adventure filled with intrigue and meticulously researched hard science. It even has little green men! Will Aason find his long-lost sister? Will he lose his soul along the way? Find out in the action-packed science fiction novel The Milk Run. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Brachman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045651/bk_acx0_045651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Spider #12, September 1934 (The Spider) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min
Fear stalked the corridors and offices on Capitol Hill, for it was from the ranks of the mighty - the rulers and lawmakers of America - that the Silver Assassins sought their victims! Singly, in pairs, and in numbered groups they died, laying down their lives for their country - while panic spread, and the Spider, alone aware of the terrific catastrophe that impended, fought through black, bodiless shadows to reach and destroy the menace that festered underground! For 10 grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back with a vengeance in a new series of audiobooks retelling his pulp-pounding exploits, as chronicled by Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge. Page was a master of the dramatic. In his earliest Spider novels, he seemed determined to outdo all that came before. With Reign of the Silver Terror, Page goes all out. Relocating the action to Washington, DC, he plunges Richard Wentworth into a maelstrom of political foment. The Silver King and his deadly assassins are out to overthrow the government of the United States, building a new empire upon a monetary foundation of the precious metal. From the first chapter, where the Spider rescues a number of US senators from being scalded alive by molten silver, to a bizarre and even unbelievable climax on the Senate floor, where a dead man pops up from his own coffin to point out his killer, this is one of the great over-the-top Spider novels. That's not all. During the course of the story's events, Nita van Sloan crosses the line from being merely Wentworth's dutiful fiancé to becoming complicit in the Spider's crimes when she makes her first kill! Originally published in The Spider magazine, September, 1934. Read by Ni ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051939/bk_acx0_051939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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