Que(e)rying Religion
Author: Gary David Comstock
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1997-02-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780826409249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first multi-disciplinary look at the intersection of queer experience and religious spirituality.
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Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the E-World
Author: George, Susan Ella
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2006-05-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1591407168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book examines the unique synergy between religion and technology, and explores the many ways that technology is shaping religious expression, as well as ways that religion is coming to influence technology"--Provided by publisher.
Religious Worlds
Author: William E. Paden
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0807012122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Author: Morris Jastrow
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly work penned by Morris Jastrow. This book provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of the religious practices, myths, and cults of ancient Babylonia and Assyria. Jastrow's meticulous research and in-depth analysis offer a deep understanding of Assyro-Babylonian religion and its significance in the broader context of ancient civilizations.
Erotogenesis of Religion
Author: Theodore Schroeder
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiffused Religion
Author: Roberto Cipriani
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3319578944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the concept of diffused religion as it is found in contemporary society, resulting from a vast process of religious socialisation that continues to pervade our cultural reality. It provides a critical engagement with a framework of non-institutional religion that is based on values largely shared in society by being diffused through primary and secondary socialisation. Cipriani also contends that these very values which give form to diffused religion can also be seen in themselves as their own kind of religion. As a result, they go beyond secularisation and favour the religious continuum extending around the world of diffused religions. This work will be of great interest to scholars in the Sociology of Religion and to anyone wanting to learn more about the social aspects of religion.
Religion, Work, and Inequality
Author: Lisa Keister
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2002-04-17
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1780523475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly. This title articulates an agenda for better understanding these social processes.
Religion and Human Rights
Author: Wilhelm Gräb
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 3110348659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways. The question of the connection between religion and human rights is a crucial point here. The genealogy of the Human Rights is still a point of controversies in the academic discussion. Nevertheless, there is consensus that the Christian tradition – especially the doctrine that each human being is an image of God – played an important role within the emergence of the codification of the Human Rights in the period of enlightenment. It is also obvious that the struggle against the politics of apartheid in South Africa was strongly supported by initiatives of churchy and other religious groups referring to the Human Rights. Christian churches and other religious groups do still play an important role in the post-apartheid South Africa. They have a public voice concerning all the challenges with which the multiethnic and economically still deeply divided South African society is faced with. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13.
The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion
Author: Richard K. Fenn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2003-03-07
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780631212416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future. Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium. Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology. Edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion Accessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.
Writing Religion
Author: Markus Dressler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0199969418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a highly contested issue. According to the dominant understanding, Alevism is part of the Islamic tradition, although located on its margins. It is further assumed that Alevism is intrinsically related to Anatolian and Turkish culture, carrying an ancient Turkish heritage, leading back into pre-Islamic Central Asian Turkish pasts. Dressler argues that this knowledge about the Alevis-their demarcation as "heterodox" but Muslim and their status as carriers of Turkish culture-is in fact of rather recent origins. It was formulated within the complex historical dynamics of the late Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic in the context of Turkish nation-building and its goal of ethno-religious homogeneity.
