Carlos Eire remembers growing up privileged in 1950s Havana, an interlude that ends with Fidel Castro and the revolution. Eire delivers transcendent prose that details the Cuba he grew up with and the "many deaths" he experienced, including being airlifted out of Cuba in 1962 with his brother.
By analyzing key elements of the world's major religions, Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions acknowledges both their rich complexity and the centuries of different traditions that help to shape them. Stories recounted from the canons of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provide insights into the ...
Composed mainly of primary source readings, but including important secondary sources well, Readings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is designed to provide both chronological and topical coverage of each religion. The readings are grouped under six headings: Scripture and Tradition, Monotheism, Authority and Community, Worship and Ritual, ...
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of the living were extended to the dead, and society's central paradigms sought to invert perceptions, making death seem better than life itself. This is the first full ...
In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. This study calls attention to the centrality of the idolatry issue for ...
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different ...
What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In "A Very Brief History of Eternity", Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award ...
"Ten piedad de mi, Senor, cubano soy." En 1962, Carlos Eire fue uno de los 14.841 ninos que fueron transportados fuera de Cuba en el puente a?reo conocido como la Operacion Pedro Pan--exiliado de su familia, de su patria y de su propia ninez por la Revolucion. Los recuerdos de su vida en La Habana cobran vida en estas memorias evocativas e ...
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