Today God is First by Os Hillman

Today God is First by Os Hillman

Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices of the mostly unlettered female sadhus, who come from a number of castes, Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that these women experience asceticism in relational and celebratory ways. They construct their lives as paths of singing to God, which, the author suggests, serves as the female way of being an ascetic. Examining the relationship between asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary contexts, the book brings together two disparate fields of study-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-using the singing of bhajans (devotional songs) as an orienting metaphor.

This is the first book-length study to explore the ways in which female sadhus perform and thus create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices, which DeNapoli characterizes as their rhetoric of renunciation.

OS HILLMAN formerly owned and operated an ad agency for 12 years, serving clients such as American Express and Steinway & Sons pianos. Today he is founder and president of Marketplace Leaders, an organization whose purpose is to help men and women fulfill their God-ordained calling in and through their work life. He is also president of the International Coalition of Workplace Ministries (ICWM) and Aslan Group Publishing, and directs an online website called faithandworkresources.com. Os is an internationally recognized speaker on the subject of faith and work, speaks to business groups and churches, and writes on various faith and work-related subjects. He is a faculty member of the Wagner Leadership Institute on Workplace Ministry. Os writes a daily Internet devotional entitled TGIF Today God Is First that is read daily by several hundred thousand people worldwide. He has authored ten books, including The Faith and Work Movement: What Every Pastor and Church Leader Should Know, TGIF Today God Is First, The 9 to 5 Window and The Upside of Adversity, and teaches leadership workshops entitled Called to the Workplace. Os attended the University of South Carolina, is married to Angie and has one daughter, Charis. Os and Angie live in Cumming, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.

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ISBN 13	9780768430066
ISBN 10	0768430062
Titre	Today God is First
Auteur	Os Hillman
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Destiny Image Publishers
Année de publication	2005-01-01
Nombre de pages	292
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