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tellingittash · 1 year

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Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Pali

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godlesshorrors · 3 years

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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦! https://godless.com/products/a-foreign-evil-by-carver-pike We decided to showcase books this week that are brought to life through religious, good versus evil, and spiritual themes. Some of these are directly reflect the author's belief and others reflect the nature of their belief. Case in point of the later is our good friend Carver Pike. There is no doubt that Carver writes some pretty gnarly and grisly horror tales. Yet, he also makes sure that he stays true to his core values as a Christian. In our eyes, that sets him apart as a horror author. Carver just took five of his titles wide so, every day this week (Monday-Friday), Godless is featuring a new buzz book by him. We start things today with the first book in his Diablo Snuff series... 𝗔 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗟 "Michael’s only in Panama for his buddy’s bachelor party vacation. When he meets Isabelle, he thinks he’s found the perfect woman for a quick whirlwind romance, but this Latin American paradise isn't all palm trees and mojitos. Evil lives here too, and it wants nothing more than to strip the flesh from foreigners’ bones." Get ready for books this week that explore Christianity, Judaism, Atheism, Satanism, and the Occult. If you are a horror writer who dabbles in religious themed work, respond below and tell us about your titles. #godless #godlesshorror #godlesshorrors #indiehorror #indiebooks #indiebookstagram #horrorbookstagram #horrorbooks #religiouswrite #carverpike #supporrindie (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-i11rjwTi/?utm_medium=tumblr

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yourdisappointedarms · 5 years

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“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.” #thomastraherne #english #poet #mystic #clergyman #theologian #religiouswriter #herefordcathedral #criticalthinking #deathanniversary #practicedying https://www.instagram.com/p/B26reWfBxcT/?igshid=8tw4ohkdgrzp

#thomastraherne #english #poet #mystic #clergyman #theologian #religiouswriter #herefordcathedral #criticalthinking #deathanniversary #practicedying

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elisabeth-at-lit-n-leisure-blog · 6 years

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Nothing says “bring on the holiday cheer” like a good book about snake handling. 🐍 My latest #bookreview is an up close look at this mysterious worship practice. Dennis Covington’s firsthand account of living and worshipping among this unique breed is authentic, balanced and is the closest to what I think an accurate portrayal could be. Literatureandleisure.com #bookblogger #nonfiction #southernliterature #bookishlife #bookshelf #bookstagram #bookcommunity #amwriting #religiouswriting https://www.instagram.com/p/BqyQn74lYz_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7mfukxgaxkvv

#bookreview #bookblogger #nonfiction #southernliterature #bookishlife #bookshelf #bookstagram #bookcommunity #amwriting #religiouswriting

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abeautifuldystopia · 6 years

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Yay! Published my first short story😀🤓🖋❤️ available on Amazon 📚link in bio #writersofinstagram #writing #published #selfpublished #thefatedones #lakiishacook #shortstory #christian #angels #aliens #demons #God #Jesus #church # Bible # christianauthor #religiouswriter #religion #faith #belive #author #kindle #Amazon #ebook

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tellingittash · 1 year

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Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Tripitaka

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tellingittash · 1 year

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Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Tantra

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tellingittash · 1 year

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Telling It Tash, Episode 1, Out Now!

Hey everyone! So, big news. Earlier this week, I dropped my first episode of my first podcast that isn’t backed by anyone like the Runner at CSUB. This was such a fun project to make all by myself and I hope that it serves as a good foundation for a great production. I would love it if people gave it a listen and gave me their honest feedback.

Telling It Tash will be my dramatic reading series, and I’ve decided to start off by reading texts that are important to understanding how and why the world developed the way it is, starting with the gospels, the primary religious text that defined European belief for millennia. This first episode is of Matthew 1, which I read from the WEBUS translation to provide both a modern interpretation of the Bible that people can easily listen to, and yet is also currently in the public domain so that there are no legal hang ups. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, and I hope you have a great day.

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tellingittash · 1 year

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Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Sanskrit

Hey everyone! Sorry again for the hiatus. My health has been up and down, but I’m back again! Today I wanted to talk about Sanskrit. This is the language of many religious texts, specifically texts that are routed in India. While this is mainly useful for Hinduism, this is also something that is useful in Buddhist studies. However, Buddhism is a pan-Asian religion now, and so there are multiple texts in different languages. Hinduism tends to be rooted in Indic people, however, and thus if you study Hinduism, you probably want to learn Sanskrit.

Funny enough, Sanskrit actually is a relative of English, even if it is rather distant. Remember the Aryans I talked about in an earlier post? Well, they were Indo-European speaking, which meant that they were speaking the language that would come to be the basis of the languages of Europe and South Asia and everything in between, with a few exceptions. We can trace English back to this original language through the chain of English languages all the way back to Anglo-Frisian, back to the West Germanic languages, then to Germanic, and back to Indo-European. Just before you split off into Germanic languages, the Indo-Iranians split off on their own and the Indo-Aryans split off from the Iranians and the Nuristani. The Indo-Aryans ended up being the fathers of many languages, Sanskrit and Pali being among the ones most relevant in my religious studies career. Oh, and the reason I know about this all is because I was also an English Major and we had to study the formation of the English language starting back in Indo-European, information that helped a lot with Religious Studies.

Anyway, enough droning on about language. I will admit, I don’t know a ton about Sanskrit specifically, but I would love to learn more. Either way, I hope everyone is having a great day and staying safe out there.

#religiousstudies #religious studies #religion #religiousliteracy #religiouswritings #hindus #hindu #hindureligion #hindu culture #hinduism #sanskrit #language #ancient #sacred #texts #women and religious traditions #leona m anderson #Pamela Dicky young

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tellingittash · 2 years

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Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Laws Of Manu

Hey everyone! Remember how we talked about the Dharmashastras? Heck, remember when we talked about dharma? Well, to recap, every person on the planet has a duty, or dharma, to complete based upon the role they were born into. If you’re born into a Christian home, your duty is to be a good Christian. If you’re born into a Confucian home, your duty is to be a good Confucian. But being born a Hindu could mean any number of thing, which is why they made books that would detail the duties of what you would do. If you’re born a ruler, you have specific duties, just as a priest has their specific duties. It also matters what stage of life you are in. A student has different duties compared to a householder or an ascetic monk. However, the question of whether being a man or a woman has any effect on your duties was undertaken by Manu, who wrote his own law book called “The Laws of Manu” sometime between 200 BCE and 200 CE (or BC and AD for non-academic circles).

To sum up the teachings on a woman’s duty, it’s pretty simple: women are born to serve their fathers, get married to serve their husbands, and grow old to serve their children, all with the expectation that these men will protect her; if she does this, living as if these men are her gods, she will find spiritual fulfillment, but if not, she will be reborn as a jackal. Oh, and this also applies regardless of whether these men are good or not. A husband could sleep around and blaspheme every god known to man and a wife would not be liberated by going out of her way to worship the gods, but rather by working on pleasing her husband. The rational being that as long as her duty is done, she will ascend, and a man who does not have chores to do can better focus on his own duty. Fun stuff, right?

Obviously, this is something that people have pushed against, just as women in Christianity and Judaism have pushed against their own sacred texts that tell women how to be and act, but it is still interesting how deeply entrenched this book is and how common it’s teachings can still be in India today.

I’m always willing to be corrected if I’m off in my understanding, but I hope that everyone is staying safe and having a great day out there.

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tellingittash · 2 years

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I finally got around to finishing“Life After Death On World Religions.” This is edited by Harold Coward featuring experts in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese Religions. I read it for my “Meaning of Death” class and I enjoyed it, but we never read the part on Chinese religions, so I reread the book. However, I do have two issues with it. One, while it’s a great introduction, it’s not really written with each chapter as an introduction. I’ve had to reread certain passages multiple times to understand what is being said, and I am a religious studies scholar. However, the editor does write an introduction that introduces the basic concepts behind the rest of the traditions, which is great. Either way, be prepared to reread sections a couple of times to really grasp what is being said. Two, the lack of various traditions is a bit disappointing. Firstly, it only has six religious traditions. Now, there are multiple traditions across the globe. Jainism, Sikhi, Shinto, Neopaganism, and Native American Traditions are major religious forces in the world today and they are not represented at all. Now, for many people, they may think that this is no problem. After all, they are only selecting the largest traditions in the world. The Top 5 Major Traditions are represented, and China has the most people in the world, so it makes sense that a book that is limited would be here. However, that assumption is flawed when there are more Sikhs than Jews globally. Also, assuming that these traditions are monolithic is problematic. There are multiple branches of every religion in the book, so this means that this cannot cover all of them in a short book. However, that all aside, if you’re interested, it’s a great starting point. #religion #religiousstudies #religiousliteracy #religiouswritings #bookstagram #book #bookreview #bookrecommendations #lifeafterdeath #judaism #christianity #islam #hinduism #buddhism #chinesereligion https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUHcqJrpaz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#religion #religiousstudies #religiousliteracy #religiouswritings #bookstagram #book #bookreview #bookrecommendations #lifeafterdeath #judaism #christianity #islam #hinduism #buddhism #chinesereligion

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