Tag: Religion

Free Download Rana Jawad, "Religion and Faith-Based Welfare: From Wellbeing to Ways of Being"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1847423906, 1847423892 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.5 mb
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development of state and non-state social welfare provision in Britain, combining historical discussion of the relationship between religion and social policy in Britain with a comparative theoretical discussion that covers continental Europe and North America.

Free Download Mitsutoshi Horii, "’Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030875156 | PDF | pages: 272 | 5.4 mb
Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.

Free Download F. Seggie, "Religion and the State in Turkish Universities: The Headscarf Ban "
English | ISBN: 0230110371 | 2011 | 229 pages | EPUB | 453 KB
This book explores educational and cultural experiences of ‘part-time’ unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term ‘part-time unveiler’ refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university.

Free Download M. Rozell, "Religion and the Bush Presidency "
English | ISBN: 1403980071 | 2007 | 276 pages | EPUB | 309 KB
George W. Bush’s religiosity has invited much analysis and controversy about the impact of religion on government. This collection of leading scholars’ essays first examines the impact of various religions voting groups on the 2004 presidential campaign, and then reviews and assesses the impact of religion on the policies of the Bush presidency.

Free Download Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
by Beth Singler
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032187646 | 229 Pages | True PDF | 2.9 MB

Free Download Denys Leighton, "Greenian Moment: T. H. Green, Religion and Political Argument in Victorian Tain Britain"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0907845541 | PDF | pages: 375 | 2.3 mb
This study of T.H. Green views his philosophical opus through his public life and political commitments, and it uses biography as a lens through which to examine Victorian political culture and its moral climate. The book deals with the political and religious history of Victorian Britain in examining the basis of Green’s Liberal partisanship. It demonstrates how his main ethical and political conceptions―his idea of "self-realisation" and his theory of individuality within community―were informed by evangelical theology, popular Protestantism and an idea of the English national consciousness as formed by religious conflict. While the significance of Kantian and Hegelian elements in Green’s thought is acknowledged, it is argued that "indigenous" qualities of Green’s teachings resonated with values shared alike by elite and rank-and-file Liberals during the mid and late Victorian era. In examining Green’s beliefs about the historical evolution of English liberty, his championing of (Liberal) Nonconformity and Nonconformist causes and his approval of religious bases of community, this study analyzes the ripening of a Greenian moment and traces Green’s influence on Liberal, quasi-socialist and Conservative social reform down to the 1920s. The lasting impact of Green’s teachings on British and Western political philosophy, apparent in the current vogue for communitarianism in liberal theory, indicates limitations of the "secularization thesis" still tacitly accepted by historians of Western political thought.

Free Download Peter N. Miller, "Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
English | 2004 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 052161712X, 0521442591, 0511558562 | DJVU | 2,7 mb
This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain and sets it in its European context. The American Revolution and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. At stake was a fundamental challenge to the way in which politics was described. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals, by voting and thinking freely, ought to determine the "common good." These influential ideas continue to resonate today in the principles of "one man, one vote" and "freedom of thought."

Free Download Lily Kong, "Religion and Space: Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World"
English | ISBN: 1474257402 | 2016 | 216 pages | PDF | 1201 KB
This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and violence in the contemporary world. Lily Kong and Orlando Woods argue that because space is both a medium and an outcome of religious activity, it is integral to understanding processes of religious competition, conflict and violence. The book explores how religious groups make claims to both religious and secular spaces, and examines how such claims are managed, negotiated and contested by the state and by other secular and religious agencies. It also examines how globalisation has given rise to new forms of religious competition, and how religious groups strengthen themselves through the development of social resilience, as well as contribute to resilient societies.

Free Download Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, "Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material"
English | 2019 | pages: 333 | ISBN: 3030155528, 3030155552 | PDF | 5,9 mb
This book discusses the ways in which early modern hagiographic sources can be used to study lived religion and everyday life from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. For several decades, saints’ lives, other spiritual biographies, miracle narratives, canonisation processes, iconography, and dramas, have been widely utilised in studies on medieval religious practices and social history. This fruitful material has however been overlooked in studies of the early modern period, despite the fact that it witnessed an unprecedented growth in the volume of hagiographic material. The contributors to this volume address this, and illuminate how early modern hagiographic material can be used for the study of topics such as religious life, the social history of medicine, survival strategies, domestic violence, and the religious experience of slaves.

Free Download Donald L. Boisvert, "The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender"
English | ISBN: 1474237789 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking selections of some of the most compelling and timely readings available today.