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Free Download Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City
by Yousuf Al-Bulushi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031424328 | 236 Pages | True PDF | 3.6 MB

Free Download Yousuf Al-Bulushi, "Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City "
English | ISBN: 3031424328 | 2024 | 239 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid’s afterlife.

Free Download Tom Whalen, "Newcomer’s Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly As "The Little Book""
English | 1998 | pages: 133 | ISBN: 0553379798 | EPUB | 2,9 mb
The guide of choice for anyone who plans to die someday-are YOU ready for the AFTERLIFE?

Free Download Jessica Rawson, "Life and Afterlife in Ancient China"
English | ISBN: 029575236X | 2023 | 560 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice and millet; a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade; and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements and their diverse expressions often lie not in written history but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs and the treasures within them are almost the only artifacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.

Free Download Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 029575236X | True EPUB | 560 pages | 112 MB
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice and millet; a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade; and a unique concept of the universe, in which ancestors continue to exist alongside the living. Records of these early achievements and their diverse expressions often lie not in written history but in how people marked the end of their lives: their dwellings for the afterlife. Tombs and the treasures within them are almost the only artifacts to survive from Ancient China; their scale and sophistication rivals their equivalents in Ancient Egypt.

Free Download Conceptions of the afterlife in early civilizations : universalism, constructivism, and near-death experience By Gregory Shushan, Gavin Flood
2009 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0826440738 | PDF | 2 MB
In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, Gregory Shushan analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica). These are considered in light of historical and contemporary reports of near-death experiences, and shamanic afterlife ‘journeys’. Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations is a significant study, for it presents a comprehensive new comparative framework for the cross-cultural study of myth and religion, while at the same time providing a fascinating exploration of the interface between belief and experience – as well as a challenge to post-modern scholarly attitudes concerning cross-cultural comparisons in the study of religions. The book was nominated for the 2011 Grawemeyer Award.

Free Download TIME: Heaven and the Afterlife 2023
English | 100 pages | PDF | 58 MB

Free Download Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development By Daromir Rudnyckyj
2010 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0801448506 | PDF | 20 MB
In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity-but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj’s innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a "spiritual economy" consisting of practices conducive to globalization.Drawing on more than two years of research in Indonesia, most of which took place at state-owned Krakatau Steel, Rudnyckyj shows how self-styled "spiritual reformers" seek to enhance the Islamic piety of workers across Southeast Asia and beyond. Deploying vivid description and a keen ethnographic sensibility, Rudnyckyj depicts a program called Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) training that reconfigures Islamic practice and history to make the religion compatible with principles for corporate success found in Euro-American management texts, self-help manuals, and life-coaching sessions. The prophet Muhammad is represented as a model for a corporate CEO and the five pillars of Islam as directives for self-discipline, personal responsibility, and achieving "win-win" solutions.Spiritual Economies reveals how capitalism and religion are converging in Indonesia and other parts of the developing and developed world. Rudnyckyj offers an alternative to the commonly held view that religious practice serves as a refuge from or means of resistance against modernization and neoliberalism. Moreover, his innovative approach charts new avenues for future research on globalization, religion, and the predicaments of modern life.

Free Download Siân Grønlie, "The Medieval North and Its Afterlife: Essays in Honor of Heather O’Donoghue "
English | ISBN: 1501524836 | 2023 | 317 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 43 MB
This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

Free Download Seven Heavens: The Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition by Carla Wills-Brandon, Bruce Greyson
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1644118157 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.62 Mb
Explores ancient Jewish beliefs in life after death as well as contemporary spiritual experiences