From The Holy Mountain

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948927
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Holy Mountain written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805061772
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Holy Mountain written by William Dalrymple and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong for a dying civilization" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Author : Alessandra Santos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851081
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holy Mountain written by Alessandra Santos and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is – at the same time – an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and one of the most mysterious films in the history of world cinema.

Author : Elder Ephraim
Publisher : St Anthonys Greek Orth Monastery
ISBN 13 : 9780966700039
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counsels from the Holy Mountain written by Elder Ephraim and published by St Anthonys Greek Orth Monastery. This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury of personal counsels and homilies given by Elder Ephraim clearly delineates the Patristic path to sanctification. In "Counsels from the Holy Mountain" he gives advise on every aspect of the spiritual struggle with insight acquired from his experience as a monk for more than fifty years and as the spiritual father of thousands of clergy, monastics, and laymen.

Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019023086X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Holy Mountain written by Mark Stoll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark R. Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with characteristic sets of ideas about nature and the environment as well as distinctive aesthetic reactions to nature, as revealed by key works of art analyzed throughout the book. As this innovative exploration of environmentalism's history shows, people raised in a handful of denominations made the movement a moral and political force. Stoll also provides insight into the possible future of environmentalism in the United States, concluding with an examination of the current religious scene and what it portends for the future. By debunking the supposed divide between religion and American environmentalism, Inherit the Holy Mountain opens up a fundamentally new narrative in environmental studies. -- from dust jacket.

Author : Hierotheos Vlachos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain written by Hierotheos Vlachos and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Merrill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498292526
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things of the Hidden God written by Christopher Merrill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things." So poet and journalist Christopher Merrill tells us near the beginning of this gripping account of the transforming pilgrimages he made to Mount Athos, in Greece, in the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. "It was time for me to come to terms with the way my life had turned out: the love I had squandered, the misgivings I had about my vocation and my faith, the dread I felt at every turn." In despair and longing to end his spiritual desolation, Merrill became one of a handful of visitors permitted entry to Mount Athos--a mysterious land that for more than a thousand years has been the secret heart of the Eastern Orthodox Church. There, amid the beautiful terrain, the ancient rhythms, and the spiritual rigor of this holy place, he found a haven. As Merrill's story unfolds, we, too, hike the rough trails of Athos, exploring a place and a way of life scarcely altered since medieval times. We share encounters with monks and spiritual seekers; visit Athos's twenty monasteries, where exquisite art treasures are sequestered; make our way to lonely hermitages that clutch the cliffs above the sea. Like Merrill, we come to consider existence in a new and different light. Part journal of personal discovery, part meditation upon the history and traditions of the contemplative life, Things of the Hidden God takes us where the temporal and the eternal intersect, where community and solitude coexist, and where centuries-old practices offer insight for how to live today.

Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 178033415X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death on the Holy Mountain written by David Dickinson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1905 and Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate a series of art thefts from stately houses. Motive troubles Powerscourt; were these robberies merely for gain? A number of Old Masters had been left untouched and the ones taken were all ancient family portraits of the aristocratic Protestant gentry. Are these thefts political? Then, astonishingly, some of the portraits begin to return - but with altered faces; the aristocrats' being replaced by those from the estates and towns beyond the gates. Truly an elaborate joke, but then real people begin to disappear - and not long after the first body is found in the chapel at the top of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain on the very day 10,000 people make the great pilgrimage to the summit. More follow, and as Powerscourt makes his way towards the killer his own life comes under threat, while his patriotism, and his devotion to Ireland is called into question on his journey towards the truth.

Author : L. B. Graham
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780875527246
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All My Holy Mountain written by L. B. Graham and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sulmandir and the dragons have returned and, despite the power of their adversaries, hope for victory is growing but before the binding of the blade can be broken, Benjiah knows he will have to make a sacrifice.

Author : Nicodemus (van de Heilige Berg)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809130382
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain written by Nicodemus (van de Heilige Berg) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicodemos (1749-1809), a monk of Saint Athos dedicated to asceticism and learning, was one of the most influential Orthodox writers of the last two centuries. His Handbook, written during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, shares an exalted vision of human nature, but a vision that proceeds from the truths of revelation as interpreted by the Greek Fathers, not Descartes.