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Free Download The Routledge Handbook of Politics and Religion in Contemporary America
by Jeffrey Haynes
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032374802 | 593 Pages | True PDF | 12.2 MB

Free Download Mark Knight, "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion "
English | ISBN: 036736560X | 2019 | 464 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary, critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at:

Free Download Mark Knight, "The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion "
English | ISBN: 036736560X | 2019 | 464 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary, critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at:

Free Download Katrien Pype, "The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa "
English | ISBN: 0857454943 | 2012 | 348 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.

Free Download Beth Singler, "The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence "
English | ISBN: 1009013653 | 2024 | 338 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Religion and artificial intelligence are now deeply enmeshed in humanity’s collective imagination, narratives, institutions, and aspirations. Their growing entanglement also runs counter to several dominant narratives that engage with long-standing historical discussions regarding the relationship between the ‘sacred" and the ‘secular’ – technology and science. This Cambridge Companion explores the fields of Religion and AI comprehensively and provides an authoritative guide to their symbiotic relationship. It examines established topics, such as transhumanism, together with new and emerging fields, notably, computer simulations of religion. Specific chapters are devoted to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, while others demonstrate that entanglements between religion and AI are not always encapsulated through such a paradigm. Collectively, the volume addresses issues that AI raises for religions, and contributions that AI has made to religious studies, especially the conceptual and philosophical issues inherent in the concept of an intelligent machine, and social-cultural work on attitudes to AI and its impact on contemporary life. The diverse perspectives in this Companion demonstrate how all religions are now interacting with artificial intelligence.

Free Download Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
by Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1479825298 | 353 Pages | PDF | 6.4 MB

Free Download Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity edited by Alan James, Irene Polinskaya, Ioannis Papadogiannakis
English | November 28, 2024 | ISBN: 0567697789 | True EPUB/PDF | 512 pages | 1.6/6.6 MB
Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

Free Download Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees (Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, 8) by Anne Runehov, Michael Fuller
English | March 20, 2024 | ISBN: 3031522915 | 284 pages | PDF | 4.99 Mb
This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of the humanities, and science and theology/religion. Trained in both theoretical physics and theology/philosophy of religion, Drees holds doctoral degrees in both theology and in philosophy and, amongst other distinguished positions, held professorships at the University of Leiden and at the University of Tilburg. Drees was also Editor-in-Chief of Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science, between 2008 and 2018, and served as President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) between 2002 and 2008. In 2018, he was elected as member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). This contributed volume builds on Drees’ expansive and provocative scholarly contributions, notably around the concept and meaning of naturalism and the humanities to the fields of science and religion, as exemplified by his works Religion, Science and Naturalism (1996) and What Are the Humanities For? (2021). In a time where more and more young people across the globe are entering higher education such cross-disciplinary explorations and (re-)evaluations are vital to the field. Accordingly, by approaching his work from a variety of disciplines this collection illuminates the broad reach of Drees’ work and provides scholars from various fields with many new and rich opportunities avenues for research.

Free Download Catherine Gomes, "Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia: Faith, Flows and Fellowship "
English | ISBN: 9463728937 | 2020 | 258 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who now are not confined to single locations and physical structures. The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a space to worship and to find fellowship. Migrant and mobile subjects thus are able to be connected to their faith – whether home grown or emerging – wherever they may be, providing them with an anchor in unfamiliar physical and cultural surroundings. As Asia rises, mobilities associated with Asian populations have escalated. The notion of ‘Global Asia’ is a reflection of this increased mobility, where Asia includes not only Asian countries as sites of political independence, but also the transnational networks of Asian trans/migrants, and the diasporic settlements of Asian peoples all over the world. This collection features cutting edge research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the role and significance of religion among transnational mobile subjects in this age of digital media, and in particular, as experienced in Global Asia.

Free Download Victor B. Howard, "Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860-1870"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813156157 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 0.4 mb
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