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Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What's Happened Since
Based on an intriguing examination of the First Amendment, Ten Tortured Words embodies centuries of diverse American legal ideas on the role of religion in our society The First Amendment to the Constitution is one of the most fascinating, misunderstood, controversial, and defining sentences in American history. It has also undergone more transformation as a principle of law than any other intention of the Founding Fathers of this country. As important as this single Constitutional sentence is, few Americans know what it says, much less what it means and when it came into being. Ten Tortured Words combines extensive historical and legal research with interviews of contemporary thinkers and American voices, yet is practical in its examination of religion in society..
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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice. .
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In Pursuit of the Yellow Jersey: Bicycle Racing in the Year of the Tortured Tour (Cycling Resources) (Cycling Resources Book)
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A Tortured Soul The Unauthorized Biography of Nicolas Anderson
This wickedly suggestive and thoroughly sexy novel is a frothy foray of desire that offers a long branch into the subconscious mind of want. Not for the faint of heart, A Tortured Soul: The Unauthorized Biography of Nicholas Anderson introduces the lure of bondage in order to overcome a lifetime of abuse and submissiveness. New erotica author C. J. Cassidy plays both sides of the fence as he doses his characters with pain and heartache before igniting their passions and pleasures. Successful and business savvy Katherine Stark silently suffers an abusive relationship with Johnny Precious, an up-and-coming rapper until an older colleague, Nicholas Anderson, suffuses her imagination and later the landscape of her body with a rare and empowering passion. Through obedience and discipline, Katherine and Nicholas engage in a secret world where everything naughty is possible and no arousing deed will go unpunished, literally and consensually speaking, of course..
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Tortured Wonders: Christian Spirituality for People, Not Angels
Poet George Herbert marveled that the human being is "once a poor creature, now a wonder . . . tortur'd in the space/Betwixt this world and that of grace." In Tortured Wonders, Rodney Clapp takes up the topic of embodied Christian spirituality with poetic intelligence and flair. With wisdom and flashes of humor, he reminds us that we are "in-between" creatures--neither entirely body nor entirely spirit, neither apes nor angels. Tortured Wonders begins by showing how orthodox Christian spirituality "never gives up on the body." Clapp addresses the incarnation of Christ and the resurrection of the body, as well as the place of sacraments in Christian spirituality. Later, Clapp conjures pop-culture figures and narratives, namely Elvis and Bambi, to explore the spiritual consequences of our contemporary phobia about death and obsession with spectacle and celebrity. He calls us to embrace our creatureliness through a string of irresistible topics: Is there sex in heaven? What is the most "biblical" posture for prayer? What can we learn from non-Christian spiritual traditions? Pastors, counselors, and anyone interested in Christian spirituality will appreciate this lucid and insightful book..
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Tortured Skin
When Paul Isaac, vampire executioner, is confronted by the master vampire of the city and poisoned with a virus that will not only kill him, but cause him to rise as one of the undead, he must decide whether to do the bidding of the powerful vampire to save his own life, or stop the sadistic killer that threatens to leave the city with more unfortunate victims. Packed with crucifixes, stakes, and a Magnum filled with ultra-violet bullets, Paul uncovers a sinister club that caters to the dark side of pleasure and pain that might not only be the key to his survival, but also push him closer to the killer's identity. In order to stay alive, he must learn to face his inner darkness and trust in things that just might be less monstrous than himself..
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I Was Tortured By The Pygmy Love Queen (Fem Fist Books)
What evils await Captain Henry Mitchell on the island below? A U.S. Navy fighter pilot, he’s forced to abandon his Grumman after battling Japanese Zeros over the Pacific, but soon Japan is the least of his worries. Parachuting into rainforest canopy Mitchell is greeted by a lost tribe of pygmies and their insanely cruel leader, a female..
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