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This book is the first to fully explore the life and ideas of John Marco Allegro (1923-1988), freethinker and rebel, whose work on the Dead Sea Scrolls led him to challenge the church, the team of scholars in charge of editing the Scrolls, and most conventional assumptions about the development of Christianity. As the first British member of the Scrolls editing team, Allegro shared the excitement, the insights, and the eyestrain of deciphering these invaluable ancient fragments. He made it possible for the Copper Scroll, a mysterious listing of treasure, to be opened in Manchester and did much to focus worldwide attention on the Scrolls as a whole. But he made his name - or gained his notoriety - by questioning orthodox assumptions about the Christian church's origins and authority. Allegro went on challenging the establishment all his life, and he relished the arguments he provoked. For over thirty years he campaigned for open access to the Scrolls and for wider debate about their significance. To him it was a campaign for free speech and free opinion. Judith Anne Brown's John Marco Allegro is a fascinating, probing, inside account of this irrepressibly original man. Making extensive use of Allegro's letters, lecture notes, draft manuscripts, and other previously unpublished writings, Brown brings to life afresh the extraordinary discoveries and debates that began in the caves by the Dead Sea over half a century ago.

Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown...

A first of its kind, all-in-one guide to creating short-form TV series for the Internet. Written in a hip and entertaining style in the language of the cyber generation, this book guides the aspiring videomaker from an initial series idea through writing, production, and uploading and marketing a polished pilot and successive episodes of his or her own original Internet TV series.

Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself.

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five years after being found guilty of a lesbian relationship with another nun.

A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender. At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s imaginations or limits them more, asks Rita Gross, than ideas about biological sex and what she calls “the prison of gender roles”? Yet if clinging to gender identity does, indeed, create obstacles for us, why does the prison of gender roles remain so inescapable? Gross uses the lenses of Buddhist philosophy to deconstruct the powerful concept of gender and its impact on our lives. In revealing the inadequacies involved in clinging to gender identity, she illuminates the suffering that results from clinging to any kind of identity at all.

Spotkanie dakini przez osobę praktykującą tantrę jest wolnym od wszelkich koncepcji żywym i poruszającym przeżyciem. Niniejsza, unikatowa praca, oparta na tego rodzaju osobistych doświadczeniach, zainspiruje każdego, niezależnie od płci, kto szczerze poszukuje duchowości i interesuje się tantryczną tradycją buddyzmu tybetańskiego. W buddyzmie tybetańskim głównym symbolem żeńskiej zasady jest dakini, 'podniebna tancerka', pełna mocy kobieca forma, która ujawnia się w duchowych wizjach, snach i podczas medytacyjnych doświadczeń. Zachodni naukowcy i interpretatorzy będący pod wpływem czy to psychologii jungowskiej, czy współczesnych nurtów myśli feministycznej, krytykowali buddyzm tybetański uznając dakinię za psychologiczny 'cień', boską wybawicielkę bądź uprzedmiotowiony produkt patriarchalnych rojeń. Judith Simmer-Brown podchodzi do tego zagadnienia z pozycji nie tylko zachodniego badacza, ale również doświadczonej adeptki buddyjskiej tantry, dowodząc, że dotychczasowe interpretacje dakini są błędne.