Tag: Keeping

Keeping Women in Their Digital Place The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online


Free Download Ruth Tsuria, "Keeping Women in Their Digital Place: The Maintenance of Jewish Gender Norms Online"
English | ISBN: 0271097183 | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 823 KB
Since its inception, the internet has been theorized as a democratic force, a public sphere in which hierarchies are flattened. But the internet is not a neutral tool; it has the power to amplify and mirror certain opinions and, as a result, can concretize social norms. So what happens when matters of religious practice and gender identity collide in these―often unregulated―online spaces?

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Keeping Their Marbles How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There


Free Download Tiffany Jenkins, "Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There"
English | ISBN: 0199657599 | 2016 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The fabulous collections housed in the world’s most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft.

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Keeping God at the Center Contemplating and Using the Prayerbook


Free Download David R. Blumenthal, "Keeping God at the Center: Contemplating and Using the Prayerbook"
English | ISBN: 0761867368 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Keeping God at the Center is informative as well as instructional. It contains four kinds of teaching: first, insights derived from pondering the meaning of selected phrases and prayers from the traditional liturgy; second: four chapters on the personalist theology behind traditional Jewish prayer; third, meditations on the liturgy and clear instructions on how to pray certain prayers; and, fourth, instructions on how to pray certain prayers mystically. Both those well-acquainted with the prayerbook and those completely unfamiliar with it will be able to derive benefit from this book. It is a continuation of the main themes of Blumenthal’s earlier work in Jewish spirituality, theology, and mysticism.

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Hope Dies Last Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times


Free Download Studs Terkel, "Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times"
English | 2004 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 156584937X, 1565848373 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
America’s most inspirational voices, in their own words: "If you’re looking for a reason to act and dream again, you’ll find it in the pages of this book" (Chicago Tribune).

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