Ergebnis für "Sky" in Religiöse Studien

Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness? In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team of young women and men who had escaped the Holocaust made the inconceivable choice to...

Drawing on more than five decades of attentive listening, Jeff Crosby explores how popular music has functioned as a form of "general revelation"—a way listeners encounter questions of God, purpose, justice, suffering, and hope beyond formal religious institutions. Through seventeen concise, engaging artist portraits, he examines how musicians across pop, rock, soul, folk, and R&B have articulated spiritual longing, wrestled with faith and doubt, and offered listeners imaginative resources for navigating their own interior lives.

In this first volume of his book series The Evolution of Meaning, Dempsey introduces a theory of meaning based in thermodynamics and information processing.