Transformative Imagery: Cultivating the Imagination for Healing, Change and Growth
Leslie Davenport, Martin L. Rossman, Rachel Naomi Remen and Emmett E. Miller
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Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and...
50 Finds from Wiltshire: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Wiltshire is famed for its internationally significant prehistoric monuments, including Stonehenge...
Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity
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In Between Empires Greg Fisher tackles the problem of pre-Islamic Arab identity by examining the...
Britain and its Internal Others, 1750-1800: Under Rule of Law
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The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that justified Britain's...
Cinema in Muslim Societies
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This book collates a comprehensive range of fascinating essays by leading authors on film from...
Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-century Scotland
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This book highlights how the Catholic population participated in the extension of citizenship in...
Crusader Castles in Holy Land 1192-1302
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After the Second Crusade in 1148 the Crusader States embarked on a period of caution and...
Europe After Wyclif
J. Patrick Hornbeck and Michael Van Dussen
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This volume brings together scholarship that discusses late-medieval religious controversy on a...
Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750
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In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern...
Awix (3310 KP) rated A Week Away (2021) in Movies
Mar 28, 2021
A ruthlessly cynical grab at the juicy faith-based-movie market by Netflix. This one is better than most, I suppose: the songs aren't painful to listen to and everyone is clearly trying their hardest. But its determination to be completely non-threatening and wholesome renders it bland to the point of absurdity - the sentiments expressed are mostly inoffensive (although the subtext is inevitably authoritarian, as with most movies about finding God), but it's almost totally lacking in drama, grit, tension and any genuine sense of threat. Passable entertainment if you want to watch something totally unchallenging. But why would you?