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Books on: wilderness wanderings

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Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy

Book by Stanley M. Hauerwas; WestviewPress, 1997

Subjects:

Liberalism (Religion)--Protestant Churches, Theology, Doctrinal--History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Stanley Hauerwas critically engages the major theological & philosophical voices of modernity to reclaim a space for Christian discourse. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably "at home" yet oddly fettered & irrelevant in America, Hauerwas challenges contemporary ...
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Stanley Hauerwas critically engages the major theological & philosophical voices of modernity to reclaim a space for Christian discourse. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably "at home" yet oddly fettered & irrelevant in America, Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to imagine what it might mean to "break back into Christianity" in a world that is at best semi-Christian.
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The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings; Undertaken in Connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund

Book by E. H. Palmer; Harper & Brothers, 1872

Subjects:

Palestine--Description And Travel, Sinai (Egypt)--Description And Travel

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...JOURNEYS ON FOOT IN THE WILDERNESS OF THE FORTY YEARS WANDERINGS; UNDERTAKEN IN CONNECTION...CHAPTER XI. WANDERINGS IN THE WILDERNESS. Feb. 13 March...actual narrative of our wanderings in the wilderness. On the 8th of November...
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The Wilderness Road

Book by Robert L. Kincaid; Bobbs-Merrill, 1947

Subjects:

Wilderness Road

Collections: History, Entire Library

...later to be the route of the Wilderness Road . From map by W...immediately recounted Arthurs wanderings to John Richards, of London...touched the route of the future Wilderness Road leading westward; Needham...trail which would become the Wilderness Road. 1 Robert Beverley...
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks

Book by Mark David Spence; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--Relocation--History, National Parks And Reserves--United States--History, Nature Conservation--Social Aspects--United States, Wilderness Areas--Government Policy--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited ...
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This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.
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Wilderness: America's Living Heritage

Book by David Brower; Sierra Club, 1961

Subjects:

Nature Conservation--United States--Congresses, Wilderness Areas--United States--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

WILDERNESS Americas Living Heritage EXPANDED FRONTISPIECE...Udall Catherine Bauer Wurster Howard Zahniser WILDERNESS Americas Living Heritage Edited by DAVID BROWER...and protect the nations scenic resources of parks, wilderness, wildlife, and the recreation derived from them. There...

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Journal Articles on: wilderness wanderings

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The Exegetical Traditions of Puritan Typology

Journal article by Everett H. Emerson, A. William Plumstead, Calvin Israel, Niki Plumstead, Percy G. Adams, Sacvan Bercovitch, Richard Crowder, Kenneth Silverman; Early American Literature, Vol. 5, 1999

Subjects:

American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...had guided the Hebrew children through their wilderness wanderings prefigured Christs guiding role to his church...Edward Taylor, then, the parallels between his "wilderness wanderings" and the experiences of Gods first Chosen People...
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The Wild, Wild North: Nature Writing, Nationalist Ecologies, and Alaska

Journal article by Susan Kollin; American Literary History, Vol. 12, 2000

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the areas could be treated as hermetically sealed spaces, wilderness conventions, according to critics like Kuehls, might actually...drifts between countries and occupies the high seas in its wanderings" (71). Using various tracking devices, scientists involved...
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The Biblical Story of Moses: Lessons in Leadership for Business

Journal article by Paul J. Herskovitz, Esther E. Klein; Journal of Leadership Studies, 1999

Subjects:

Bible (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Leadership--Models, Moses (Biblical figure)--Conduct of life

Collections: Entire Library

...Exodus and the wanderings of the Hebrews in the wilderness, to the loss of...a guide in the wilderness for forty years...of the Hebrews wanderings. The Failure...Lord into this wilderness, to die there...
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Subject Female: Authorizing American Identity

Journal article by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg; American Literary History, Vol. 5, 1993

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...wanders through a howling wilderness of Indian lands in a series...earlier by Rowlandson. His wanderings do not end until, killing...scramble through a hellish wilderness. With his "spirit vengeful...Clithero again flees into the wilderness, Huntly relentlessly traces...
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The Value of a Tree: Public Debates of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot

Journal article by Michael B. Smith; The Historian, Vol. 60, 1998

Subjects:

Environmental movement--History, Muir, John--Philosophy, Natural resources--Preservation, Pinchot, Gifford (Political appointee)--Philosophy, United States--Environmental policy

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...conservationist; that is, one of a burgeoning group of naturalists whose wilderness advocacy stemmed as much from affection as science. During...new nature ethic through both example and exhortation. His wanderings in the Sierra Nevada took him far from civilization to places...

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Magazine Articles on: wilderness wanderings

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Liberalism, Race, and Stanley Hauerwas

Magazine article by James Logan; Cross Currents, Vol. 55, Winter 2006

Subjects:

Hauerwas, Stanley--Practice, Liberalism--Analysis, Theologians--Practice

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...King, Jr. Remembering," in Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-Century...King, Jr. Remembering," in Wilderness Wanderings, 225. 12. Hauerwas, "Remembering...King, Jr. Remembering," in Wilderness Wanderings, 225. 13. Quoted in Craig...
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John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California & Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr

Magazine article by Dr. Roderick Nash; California History, Vol. 81, Spring-Fall 2002

Subjects:

John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California (Book), Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...womanhood (which included calling her husband "Dr Can"). Botany, theology, and living vicariously through Muir in his wilderness wanderings were her salvation. Granted, some of the letters are prosaic descriptions of places and people, but many are...
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Amy Sillman

Magazine article by Meghan Dailey; Artforum International, Vol. 38, Summer 2000

Subjects:

Painters--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Sillman, Amy--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...muse in the eccentric Walser (1878-1956), and its not hard to see that Sillman would be drawn to his spontaneous wilderness wanderings and the heartbreak of his madness. Her work has examined the awkward emotions and painful moments that we all...
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Desert

Magazine article by Catharine Savage Brosman; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Spring 2001

Subjects:

Desert ecology--Appreciation, Deserts--Psychological aspects, Solitude--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Sinai Peninsula were the site of the Hebrew childrens wanderings after they left Egypt. Prophets ("like the foxes of the deserts," according to Ezekiel 13:4) sought refuge in the wilderness or came out of it; the psalmist sang that he himself...
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Truth & Fiction Chart a Miraculous Journey

Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 48, July 1996

Subjects:

Cabeza de Vaca--Works, Explorers--Biography, New Spain--History, Southwestern States--Discovery, exploration, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...I was born." Religious imagery ran thick in this unknown wilderness. At various times along the way Cabeza de Vaca feared the...good cause for his emulation of Christ - forty days in the wilderness had by then stretched to six years, and he was still alive...

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Newspaper Articles on: wilderness wanderings

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A Wilderness Tale Offering Comfort of Creatures When Humanity Fails

Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, June 25, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...first, that she can find her way out of the brutally enclosing wilderness. Eventually, however, cold, wet, out of food, she wanders...Phantoms or beasts," she wonders at one point in her desperate wanderings. And Harriet, the missing little girl? Her fate is scalding...
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OUT OF AFRICA; Long-Held Dreams of Wandering in the Namib Desert Became a Spellbinding Reality for John Butcher

Newspaper article by John Butcher; The Birmingham Post (England), December 12, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of Namibia remain true wilderness, untouched by man except for the long ago wanderings of small groups of Bushmen...perfect companion for the wilderness and the occasional watering...and I may well become wilderness bores at dinner parties...
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Jerusalem, Sacred to 3 Religions, Stymies Camp David Peace Talks

Newspaper article by Abraham Rabinovich; The Washington Times, July 22, 2000

Subjects:

Jerusalem, Israel

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the first Temple on Mount Moriah to house the Holy Ark that the Israelites had carried with them in their wanderings in the Sinai wilderness for 40 years. Jerusalem would remain the Jewish capital for the next millennium, except for a half-century...
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'Princess' Who Sold Us a Fairy Tale

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 2, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The bulk of Frances Welchs Romanov Fantasy consists of the wanderings of Anna Anderson, as she now called herself, from schloss...with dozens of cats and dogs in a boarded-up house with a wilderness of a garden full of rubbish. The weirdness of human behaviour...
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Eating Habits in Biblical Times

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 30, 2007

Subjects:

Diet

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the term manna was the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness. When the dew fell upon the camp of the Israelites at night, the manna fell with it. (See the Book of Numbers...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: wilderness wanderings

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Baal-Peor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...local divinity (the Baal) of Peor. According to the Book of Numbers, the Hebrews stayed at Shittim during the wilderness wanderings. While there, Hebrew men had sexual relationships with the local Moabite women. This led to worship of Baal...

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