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.
Give Me that Online Religion
Author: Brenda E. Brasher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813534367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an exploration of online religion, from virtual monks to millennial fever to spiritual cyborgs, and the profound influence that cybermedia exerts on our concept of God, way of worshipping, and practice of faith.
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 EBOOKReligion, Media and Culture: A Reader
Author: Gordon Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 113664959X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture Media and the transformation of religion The sacred senses: visual, material and audio culture Religion, and the ethics of media and culture. This collection is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers wanting a deeper understanding of religion and contemporary culture.
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.
Religion as Empowerment
Author: Kyriaki Topidi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1317067657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism. At the same time, it also questions the thesis that as societies become more modern, they also become less religious. The authors look beyond the rule of law orthodoxy in their consideration of the freedom of religion as a human right and place this discussion in a more plurality-sensitive context. The book sheds more light on the informal and/or customary mechanisms that explain the limited impact of law on individuals and groups, especially in non-Western societies. The focus is on discussing how religion and the exercise of religious rights may or may not empower individuals and social groups and improve access to human rights in general. This book is important reading for academics and practitioners of law and religion, religious rights, religious diversity and cultural difference, as well as NGOs, policy makers, lawyers and advocates at multicultural jurisdictions. It offers a contemporary take on comparative legal studies, with a distinct focus on religion as an identity marker.
Religion and Aging
Author: Derrell R. Watkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1136395245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind solace and wise counsel in these classics of spiritual gerontology! In these days, when so many people live beyond the Biblical threescore and ten, the spiritual questing and questioning of the aged demands a meaningful response from clergy, family members, and nursing home staff. The essays and research studies reprinted in Religion and Aging: An Anthology of the Poppele Papers investigate the role of faith in older people's lives. Many of these classic studies have been updated with new information. These essays were originally published in the Quarterly Papers on Religion and Aging. This renowned journal was issued from 1984 to 1994 by the Poppele Center for Health and Welfare Studies at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. The issues of spiritual gerontology discussed in that journal are still powerfully relevant today. Because back issues of the journal are not widely available, the cream of its ten-year history is being reissued in permanent form. Religion and Aging offers unfailing wisdom and insight in a broad range of issues, including: training clergy to be more responsive to the needs of older people a historical perspective on the meaning of ”honoring thy father and mother” in first-century Judaism and Christianity the Psalms as a way to help nursing home residents deal with pain, loneliness, anger, and other difficult emotions original research into belief patterns of older Americans ways to give meaning to suffering suggested by the lives and works of Viktor Frankl, Martin Gray, and Rabbi Harold Kushner techniques of communicating with older people Religion and Aging is an invaluable resource to anyone who works with old people, whether in adult day-care programs, nursing homes, hospitals, or other senior citizens’groups. It will help chaplains, pastors, rabbis, and other clergy minister more effectively to the older members of their flock.
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.
