Tag: Religious

Free Download David Makofsky, "Religious Fundamentalism in an Age of Conflict"
English | ISBN: 1527585980 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book builds on the criticism of development theory eminent in mainstream European and American sociology and anthropology by identifying and describing the processes at work in the critical transformation of religious fundamentalism today. Raising themes such as development and intersectionality and bringing together scholars from across the globe, it considers how these processes are seen in the Muslim, Christian and Jewish-Zionist world and in China.

Free Download University of AgderF. LeRon Shults, "Practicing Safe Sects Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective "
English | ISBN: 9004461671 | 2021 | 318 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having the talk about religious reproduction: where do gods come from and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally pluralistic, ecologically fragile environment?

Free Download Ruth Illman, "Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London: Being Liberal and Doing Traditional"
English | ISBN: 1498542204 | 2018 | 182 pages | EPUB | 1264 KB
This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, comprising several elements seen as central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation, embodiment, experience, emotions and creativity. Focusing on the progressive Anglo-Jewish milieu today, the study investigates how responses to these processes of change are negotiated individually and collectively and what role is allotted to music in this context. Building on ethnographic research conducted at Leo Baeck College in London (2014-2016), it maps how theologically unsystematic life-views take form through everyday musical practices related to institutional religion, identifying three theoretically relevant processes at work: the reflexive turn, the turn within and the turn to tradition.

Free Download Paul Harvey, "Martin Luther King: A Religious Life "
English | ISBN: 1538115921 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
"[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Free Download Sumaia A. Al-Kohlani, "Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies: Human Rights and Modernization Pre-Arab Spring"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319705350, 3030099660 | PDF | pages: 205 | 2.7 mb
In this book, Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "religious theory" that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "modernization theory" which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors. The author explores both schools of thought and posits that, on average, Muslim countries have lower educational equality in comparison to non-Muslim countries with less religious constitution. An interdisciplinary study drawn from the fields of world politics, public policy in education, and political religion, this book responds not only to debates within academia, but also to larger debates in society about the role of religion in the state, the specific challenges of the relationship of Islam and the public policies, and the relationship between constitution and gender equality.

Free Download Albion Urdank, "Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community: A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-"
English | ISBN: 1498523528 | 2015 | 150 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters from the Established church, in this case Particular Baptists, who were moderate Calvinists. It goes a step beyond previous studies by giving Anglicans and Dissenters co-equal status in a comparative demographic analysis and by demonstrating how religious values informed procreative activity. It does so through a combination of advanced statistical methodologies and an innovative treatment of data collection forms as readable texts. The study concludes that the likelihood of another birth increased following a religious conversion experience, especially among both Anglican and Baptist wives following marriage. Mortality too had a less constraining effect on procreative activity which, in conformity with the English experience, was driven largely by fertility.

Free Download Morgan Shipley, "Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America"
English | ISBN: 1498509096 | 2015 | 294 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences (Audiobook)
English | August 24, 2017 | ASIN: B0751XCK7J | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 26m | 229.71 MB
Author: William Richards
Narrator: River Kanoff
Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, William A. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential to assuage suffering and constructively affect the quality of human life.

Free Download Jim Kanaris, "Toward a Philosophy of Religious Studies: Enecstatic Explorations"
English | ISBN: 1438494548 | 2023 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 662 KB + 2 MB
Offers a unique perspective on the study of religion revolutionized by contemporary continental thinking.

Free Download John Sumser, "The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States: Wittgenstein, Social Construction, and Commu"
English | ISBN: 1498522084 | 2016 | 184 pages | EPUB | 776 KB
The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States. Sumser analyzes how Americans apply religious and secular reasoning to contemporary social problems, and explains the resurgence of religious worldviews and the simultaneous growth of an assertive form of atheism in America. This book is recommended for scholars of communication studies, religious studies, sociology, philosophy, and history.