Catherine Bell – лучшие книги

Steventon, 1795. Die aufgeweckte Pfarrerstochter Jane möchte nur eines: schreiben. Mit tintenverschmierten Händen durchwacht sie die Nächte und begibt sich in die Welt ihrer Heldinnen. Doch ihre Schwester Cass ist verlobt, und Jane schwant, dass ihre Mutter ganz ähnliche Pläne für ihre Zukunft schmiedet. Nur sind Jane die jungen Kerle aus dem Ort alle einerlei, bestenfalls geben sie akzeptable Tanzpartner auf den von ihr heiß geliebten Bällen ab – bis der belesene Wirbelwind Tom Lefroy aufkreuzt. Janes Herz aber muss immer wieder Enttäuschungen ertragen. Umso unermüdlicher kämpft sie für ihren größten Traum: einen Roman zu veröffentlichen.

Pfarrerstochter, Schriftstellerin, Ausnahmetalent – Der Roman über das Leben von Jane Austen

When American pioneers set their hearts on a California valley where Indians had been living for thousands of years, a period of uneasy appraisal emerged, followed by conflict and soon enough by genocide. The epic greed and violence of the 1850's and 60's has been brushed aside by history, conveniently forgotten in the pride of conquest. Willful ignorance and cruelty, terror and desperation were common in that time, but there were moments too of nobility and compassion, ingenuity and forgiveness, qualities which might have prevailed if certain things had been different. Rush of Shadows brings to life two freethinking women, Mellie, a white, and Bah.

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.