Author: Christopher Hitchens Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9781859840542 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 132
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Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?
Author: Tabish Khair Publisher: Interlink Publishing ISBN: 1623710464 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance—falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur’an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a “terrorist attack” takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.
Author: Vicente M. Diaz Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824860462 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 281
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In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, Repositioning the Missionary critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Mata'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The work juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first, "From Above, Working the Native," focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two, "From Below: Working the Saint," shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. "From Behind: Transgressive Histories" shifts from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author’s own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Mata'pang. Theoretically innovative and provocative, humorous, and inspired, Repositioning the Missionary melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.
Author: Nastassja Chimney Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492265726 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 32
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Making a woman squirt in missionary position is easier than you think. All you need is the right technique. The Vice Technique. This secret sex weapon was originally invented by a circle of gigolos, callboys, pick-up-artists and womanizers to achieve their goals. Now this how-to guide written by sex expert Nastassja Chimney makes it available for everyone. Improve your sex life like you never thought possible! Content: 1. Prelude 2. The Female Sex Organ 3. Physical Requirements 4. Exercises 5. Vice — The Technique That Makes A Woman Squirt 6. Other Nastassja Chimney Releases
Author: Lauren Mcgrow Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004353186 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 259
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Missionary Positions examines the context for Christian outreach to people in the sex industry. Over the last 20 years, faith-based organisations have become more engaged in ministering with sex workers. But what are the methods and desired outcomes that undergird pastoral practice in this field? Most Christians see prostitution as evil, and those who sell sex are considered broken victims in need of restoration. Yet the voices and experiences of sex workers themselves often challenge these assumptions. Using feminist and postcolonial perspectives, interviews with Christian practitioners in Australia and personal narrative, Lauren McGrow carves out a space for the dynamic theological agency and life complexity of sex workers to be more fully acknowledged in faith-based outreach projects.
Author: Anji Barker Publisher: Seedbeds Communications ISBN: 9780648472520 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 154
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"Anji's story is engaging, insightful, heart wrenching and at times, very, very funny. The Reverend Kate Bottley, Broadcaster and Priest (As seen on Gogglebox) This book is an entertaining and moving autobiography of the extraordinary and unusual life of Australian mother - Anji Barker. A qualified social worker and a United Reformed Church Minister, Anji has spent the last 30 years living in poor urban communities in Australia, Thailand and the UK. She is passionate about social justice and grassroots transformation. Her faith has lead her to jump in boots and all fighting for those who are pushed to the margins. Anji shares openly and honestly about faith and doubt, the challenge of raising children in difficult places, as well as the joy that this life brings. She reminds us that our mistakes and failings can be our assets and that God delights in the strangest, most unlikely bits of who we are. Her stories will make you laugh and cry, inspire and encourage you. "This is a delightful must-read for anyone who dares to live a life for others." Brian D. McLaren
Author: Emily Prager Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780099538110 Category : Sex differences Languages : en Pages : 704
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Would you want to join in a football game or play pool with blood dripping from your penis? Is there any chance that you'd be anything but short-tempered, irrational and depressed with blood dripping from your penis? 'The Man's Exam on Female Troubles' explains just some of the 'problems' women endure and questions whether men, given the same biology, wouldn't behave in the same way. . . In this hilarious collection of journalism Emily Prager offers us her views on every-thing from the royal family to abortion. Covering twenty-five years of her writing for the NATIONAL LAMPOON, TITTERS, PENTHOUSE, the NEW YORK OBSERVER, the GUARDIAN and the NEW YORK TIMES Styles Section, IN THE MISSIONARY POSITION is a fascinating social history of two decades as well as giving refreshingly irreverent advice on surviving Christmas, plastic surgery and safe sex.
Author: Larry Alex Taunton Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM ISBN: 0718022181 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. “Nobody is not a divided self, of course,” he once told an interviewer, “but I think it’s rather strong in my case.” Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror, and after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God on stage, he maintained meaningful—though largely hidden from public view—friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis Collins, Douglas Wilson, and the author Larry Alex Taunton. In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the New Atheism. While Hitchens was, in the minds of many Christians, Public Enemy Number One, away from the lights and the cameras a warm friendship flourished between Hitchens and the author; a friendship that culminated in not one, but two lengthy road trips where, after Hitchens’s diagnosis of esophageal cancer, they studied the Bible together. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens gives us a candid glimpse into the inner life of this intriguing, sometimes maddening, and unexpectedly vulnerable man. “If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
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