Tag: Temple

Free Download Anning Jing, "The Water God’s Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9004119256 | PDF | pages: 305 | 72.1 mb
The 14th century dragon king temple in Southern Shanxi is the only known intact survivor of this ancient Water God institution once existing in every Chinese agricultural community. After describing the history, lay-out and mural paintings of the building, its original Yuan time mural paintings enable the author to depict the ritual of praying for rain, and the actual rain-making of the god.

Free Download Peter Levenda, "The Secret Temple: Masons, Mysteries, and the Founding of America"
English | ISBN: 0892541881 | 2020 | 256 pages | EPUB | 692 KB
This is a unique history of Masonry written from the perspective of an educated outsider. The author is sympathetic to Masonic goals, a historian of secret societies and political conspiracies, and an exhaustive researcher. He looks back to the earliest roots of the Craft, and then traces its influence into modern times. From the Bible’s Temple of Solomon through the Knights Templars, to the Rosicrucians and Illuminati, we learn of Masonry’s roots and early history. Enlightenment philosophy and the revolutionary currents of eighteenth-century Europe opened an opportunity for the American experiment. Sacred geometry and architecture combined to create Washington, DC, and the rest, as they say, is history. This second revised and enlarged edition includes a new chapter on Freemasonry in South America―from the revolution of Simón Bolívar to the capture and execution of Che Guevara.

Free Download Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion"
English | ISBN: 0190948493 | 2020 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 1459 KB
In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets. Since that time, The Satanic Temple has become a regular voice in national conversations about religious freedom, disestablishment, and government overreach. In addition to petitioning for Baphomet to appear alongside another monument of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas, the group has launched campaigns to include Satanic "nativity scenes" on government property in Florida, Michigan, and Indiana, offer Satanic prayers at a high school football game in Seattle, and create "After School Satan" programs in elementary schools that host Christian extracurricular programs. Since their 2012 founding, The Satanic Temple has established 19 chapters and now claims 100,000 supporters. Is this just a political group perpetuating a series of stunts? Or is it a sincere religious movement?

Free Download Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion"
English | ISBN: 0190948493 | 2020 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 1459 KB
In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets. Since that time, The Satanic Temple has become a regular voice in national conversations about religious freedom, disestablishment, and government overreach. In addition to petitioning for Baphomet to appear alongside another monument of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas, the group has launched campaigns to include Satanic "nativity scenes" on government property in Florida, Michigan, and Indiana, offer Satanic prayers at a high school football game in Seattle, and create "After School Satan" programs in elementary schools that host Christian extracurricular programs. Since their 2012 founding, The Satanic Temple has established 19 chapters and now claims 100,000 supporters. Is this just a political group perpetuating a series of stunts? Or is it a sincere religious movement?

Free Download Deborah Sutton, "Ruling Devotion: The Hindu Temple in the British Imperial Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1438499205 | 2024 | 294 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Free Download Richard J. Barry IV, "Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross: Atonement and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur"
English | ISBN: 0813237173 | 2024 | 450 pages | PDF | 6 MB
How a deeper understanding of the theology of Yom Kippur unlocks the paradox at the heart of Christian soteriology.

Free Download Steven E. Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period. Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004447970 | PDF | pages: 438 | 60.2 mb
Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period presents discussions on textual and linguistic aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of Second Temple Hebrew corpora.

Free Download Kunigas Antanas Jusaitis, "The History of the Knights Templar: The Temple Church and The Templars"
English | 2008 | pages: 332 | ISBN: 1606201050 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
This is a mainstream history of the Knights Templars, written in the 19th century. Addison details the rise of the Templars to become, essentially, the first multinational corporation. The Templars were entrusted by the Church and States of Europe to be the spearhead of the crusades. In the process they gained immense wealth and influence, although individual Templars took a vow of poverty. Jerusalem was won and lost several times by the crusaders through the 12th and 13th centuries. Addison notably cites eye-witness descriptions from both the Crusaders and their Moslem opponents to give a well-rounded picture. After the crusades, and the loss of the Holy Land, the Templars began a quick decline from which they never recovered. Accused of heresy and bizarre secret rituals, the Templars were subjected to torture and the stake.

Free Download Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple By Chris Highland
2001 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0899972853 | EPUB | 3 MB
Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips.

Free Download Power and Place: Temple and Identity in Book of Revelation By Gregory Stevenson
2001 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 3110170086 | PDF | 11 MB
`No physical structure in antiquity held more significance as a place of access to deity than a temple’ – from the introduction. Stevenson’s study explores Jewish thought and tradition and the inter-mingling of Greco-Roman and Jewish culture based on an analysis of symbolism in the Book of Revelation. Written in the latter half of the first century, the Book of Revelation was written for Christians living in the culturally diverse area of western Asia Minor. Considering Early Christianity in the ancient Mediterranean was devoid of temple buildings, Stevenson questions why temples appear in Revelation, what they symbolise and whether this is representative of ideas of symbolism in the contemporary world.