Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual?With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake-personally and politically-in the nation's fraught first decades.

Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God’s prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time. Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a computerized global economic order—Boyer shows how impressive feats of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular imagination in terms of the Bible’s apocalyptic works. Reflecting finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction might take—and the forms it might assume—in the post–Cold War era. The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary American popular thought—a thorough and thoroughly fascinating index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.

FREE GIFT! Get six powerful prayer books when you buy this book. Including one of my best sellers: Fire for Fire. ( link at the end of this book ) This book gives an x-ray of the wicked. The book makes us to understand that the wicked are powers, forces and personality that do evil. They don’t smile until they carry out evils they intend to do. They believe in wickedness, eat food of wickedness, gang up to do evil and swim in ocean of wickedness. Their believe and understanding is evil. The wicked are evil and ready to pass death sentence on people or career in a second. This is how dare and wicked they are. The wicked prefer to live their victims in sorrow rather than see them laugh. They love to see people count predicaments in phases. With all their efforts to accomplish these, the Lord is there for you. The Lord shall give you listening ear and answer your prayer. No wonder this book is loaded with Holy Spirit vomited prayer to nail the coffin of the wicked. The Lord assures you, “The wicked shall rise no more”. This is the final judgment we need and it is provided here. This book shall bring smiles to the face and laughter to the mouth of the reader. The book is wonderfully packaged to show power and might of the Lord. When God arise, the wicked shall scatter and flee. They will flee without turning back. They shall fall and rise no more. The stubborn that wait behind shall eventually be declared missing or there obituary advertised. They shall die and be remembered no more. Pick this book, as you shall find lots to gain. The book shall:- Make your enemy sober and be remembered no more. They will count daily losses over your situation. Great doors of opportunities shall open to you. Your foundation shall experience deliverance and breakthrough. Favor and mercy of God shall locate you. Witchcraft powers after you shall be rendered useless and dead. Trumpet of victory shall locate your mouth as you possess your possession. The Lord shall make your home, his home. The miracles, signs and wonders you never experience before shall be your portion. At the end, you shall sing your songs and dance your dance to the glory of God. It is time to count your blessings and give all glory to the Lord Almighty and say, “The wicked shall rise no more”. Hallelujah.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Sri Ramakrishna’s message was fundamentally a spiritual message to a world steeped in materialism. And who could be better equipped to interpret that message than his direct disciples who had been moulded by that Great Master into his own mould. This book comprises of articles by these great disciples of Sri Ramakrishna bringing out the true significance of religion and its practice. All those who truly thirst after religion and God will find in this book clear insights into spiritual life and practices. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India.

Collected from the works of philosophy and social criticism of Brian C. Taylor from 2006 to 2013, this anthology contains everything of value written so far. This collection also has unpublished works formerly unavailable online or in book form.