Whether an individual recognized they, too, shared this identity and were at risk, or dared to speak out for tolerance and change, there were few organizations or resources before the scientific and political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. These paths of persecution entrenched homophobia for centuries-but also alerted entire populations to the existence of difference. Where homosexual activity or deviance from established gender roles/dress was banned by law or traditional custom, such condemnation might be communicated through sensational public trials, exile, medical warnings, and language from the pulpit. Social movements, organizing around the acceptance and rights of persons who might today identify as LGBT or queer, began as responses to centuries of persecution by church, state, and medical authorities.
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"This introduction to Paul’s letters is a surprisingly readable entrée into a spectrum of ideological approaches to interpreting biblical texts. I will no doubt adopt this book for my next course on Paul." Most importantly, contributors to this volume write as teachers as well as researchers. The latter aspect is especially helpful since it focuses on approaches that are still seldom covered in most textbooks on biblical criticism, like reading from a spatial and a visual perspective. This book will help readers learn not only about Paul in particular but also how one might approach the New Testament in general. "This is arguably the best and most accessible textbook for a course on reading Paul. I feel I've been waiting for it for a very long time." "Pauline studies, long the most methodologically monolithic and theologically timid area of New Testament studies, bursts out of its shell with this textbook. 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When the Cat’s-Meat Man leaves, Dolittle’s parrot, Polynesia, speaks to him, supporting the suggestion. The Cat’s-Meat Man suggests Dolittle give up being a human doctor entirely and become an animal doctor. Patients avoid coming to see him because of the animals until the only patient he has left is the Cat’s-Meat Man. However, Dolittle’s love of animals is getting out of hand, his many pets threatening to ruin him financially. Fond of animals, the doctor keeps many pets in his small, charming house. John Dolittle, M.D., a clever and popular doctor, lives with his sister, Sarah, in the small English town of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. The original story contained many plot elements and vocabulary choices that have become controversial over time later editions often bowdlerize these passages. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), a children’s novel by Hugh Lofting, is the first in a series of books about the adventures of the title character, who learns how to speak with animals. 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It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus ( Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis). The hippopotamus or hippo ( / ˌ h ɪ p ə ˈ p ɒ t ə m ə s/ HIP-ə- POT-ə-məs PL: hippos, hippopotamuses or hippopotami Hippopotamus amphibius), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. Joshua Slocum was born on February 20, 1844, in Mount Hanley, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (officially recorded as Wilmot Station), a community on the North Mountain within sight of the Bay of Fundy. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey, Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. Joshua Slocum (Febru – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. Victor Slocum Benjamin Slocum Jessie Slocum James Slocum First solo circumnavigation of the world (1895–1898) |