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Free Download American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam, Dan John Miller, David E. Campbell
English | November 08, 2010 | ISBN: B004BDU9XU | 18 hours and 54 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 492 Mb
American Grace takes its findings from two of the largest, most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America, plus in-depth studies of diverse congregations–among them a megachurch, a Mormon congregation, a Catholic parish, a reform Jewish synagogue, and an African American congregation. From abortion to gay marriage to feminism, this book shows how religion has influenced politics in America–and vice versa. The discoveries are often unexpected: The most politicized churches tend to be liberal, not conservative, congregations. Faith matters less to Americans than their communities of faith. Most Americans marry outside their religion. And nearly half of all Americans change their religion at some point during their lifetime. Robert D. Putnam won huge acclaim for Bowling Alone and Better Together. Together with coauthor David E. Campbell, Putnam brings his distinctive brand of in-depth research and analysis to religion in America.

Free Download Prof. Gunilla Anderman, "Voices in Translation: Bridging Cultural Divides "
English | ISBN: 1853599824 | 2007 | 176 pages | PDF | 742 KB
In choosing to render dialect and vernacular speech into Scots, Bill Findlay, to whose memory this volume is dedicated, made a pioneering contribution in safeguarding the authenticity of voices in translation. The scene of the book is set by an overview of approaches to rendering foreign voices in English translation including those of the people to whom Findlay introduced us in his Scots dialect versions of European plays. Martin Bowman, his frequent co-translator follows with a discussion of their co-translation of playwright Jeanne-Mance Delisle. Different ways of bridging the cultural divide in the translation between English and a number of plays written in a number of European languages are then illustrated including the custom of creating English versions, an approach rejected by contributions that argue in favour of minimal intervention on the part of the translator. But transferring the social and cultural milieu that the speakers of other languages inhabit may also cause problems in translation, as discussed by some translators of fiction. In addition attention is drawn to the translators’ own attitude and the influence of the time in which they live. In conclusion, stronger forces in the form of political events are highlighted that may also, adversely or positively, have a bearing on the translation process.

Free Download K.R. Howe, "Closing Methodological Divides: Toward Democratic Educational Research"
English | 2002 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1402012268, 1402011644 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The issues I treat in this book―qualitative versus quantitative methods, facts versus values, science versus politics, subjectivity versus objectivity, postm- ernism versus pragmatism, to name a few―are at the core of a lively, sometimes divisive, conversation that has been unfolding in the theory and practice of e- cational research for some time. These issues fall squarely within the province of philosophy, and thus philosophical investigation has an especially useful contribution to make. But these issues are by no means the exclusive province of philosophy; they are ones in which a diverse group of educational theorists have had a keen interest and about which they have had important things to say. The conversation I hope to join―and to move forward―is this broad and inclusive one. Philosophy of education is at its best when it dives headlong into the fray. The book borrows liberally from my previously published work, but is far from a simple compilation. The ideas developed in Chapter 7, "On the Threat of Epistemological Bias," are new. The ideas developed in Chapter 9, "Toward Democratic Educational Research," are a significant extension of the application of similar ideas to evaluation research. The ideas developed in Chapter 4, "The Persistence of the Fact/Value Dogma," are in a form and at a level of detail not published before. Finally, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Overview," weaves together my thinking on a large array of issues on educational research methodology that had only been loosely connected before.

Free Download Lynne Hybels, "Mending the Divides: Creative Love in a Conflicted World"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0830844848 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 2.1 mb
Christianity Today’s 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit – Mission/The Global Church