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Free Download Jeremy Carrette, "Religion, NGOs and the United Nations: Visible and Invisible Actors in Power"
English | ISBN: 1350020362 | 2017 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a "spiritual" UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how "religion" operates in both visible and invisible ways.

Free Download Christopher Partridge, "Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music, The "
English | ISBN: 1350082627 | 2019 | 440 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Now available in paperback, this Handbook covers the most important themes and concepts in the field of religion and popular music. Edited by Christopher Partridge and Marcus Moberg, it provides an accessible entry point for those new to the field. Drawing on contemporary research from religious studies, theology, sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies, the volume comprises thirty-one specifically commissioned essays from a team of international experts. The chapters explore the main areas of inquiry and point to new directions for research. Featuring chapters on methodology, key genres, religious traditions and popular music subcultures, this volume is essential reading for anyone with an interest in religion and popular music as well as popular culture more broadly. Religious traditions covered include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Paganism and occultism. Coverage of genres and religion ranges from heavy metal, rap and hip hop to country music and film and television music.

Free Download Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t By Robert Spencer
2007 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1596985151 | EPUB | 1 MB
Christianity or Islam: which is the real "religion of peace"?Almost any liberal pundit will tell you that there’s a religion bent on destroying our Constitution, stripping us of our liberties, and imposing religious rule on the U.S. And that religion is . . .Christianity! About Islam, however, the Left is silent–except to claim a moral equivalence between the two: if Islam has terrorists today, that’s nothing compared to the Crusades, inquisitions, and religious wars in Christianity’s past.But is this true? Are conservative Christians really more of a threat to free societies than Islamic jihadists? Is the Bible really "just as violent" as the Qur’an? Is Christianity’s history really as bloodstained as Islam’s? In Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer not only refutes such charges, but also explains why Americans and Europeans must regain an appreciation of our Christian heritage if we ever hope to defeat Islamic supremacism. In this eye opening work, Spencer reveals:* The fundamental differences between Islamic and Christian teachings about warfare against other religions: "Love your enemies" vs. "Be ruthless to the unbelievers"* The myth of Western immorality and Islamic puritanism and why the Islamic world is less moral than the West* Why the Islamic world has never developed the distinction between religious and secular law that is inherent in Christianity* Why Christianity has always embraced reason–and Islam has always rejected it* Why the most determined enemies of Western civilization may not be the jihadists at all, but the leftists who fear their churchgoing neighbors more than Islamic terrorists* Why Jews, Christians, and peoples of other faiths (or no faith) are equally at risk from militant IslamSpencer writes not to proselytize, but to state a fact: Christianity is a true "religion of peace," and on it Western civilization stands. If we are not to perish under Islam’s religion of the sword–with its more than 100 million active jihadists seeking to impose sharia law–we had better defend our own civilization.

Free Download I J Azzam, "Gender & Religion: Druze Women"
English | 2007 | pages: 269 | ISBN: 1904850146 | PDF | 46,9 mb
The first anthropological study of gender and religion through the experience of the Druze women in Lebanon come in response to a serious void in this field of knowledge and provides profound insights into gender relations amongst the Druze. Azzram presents the egalitarian principles of the Druze faith of al-Tawhid as a progressive challenge to the patriarchal values at the time of its inception during the early decades of the 11th century as well as the present time. With authentic reflexivity of a concerned insider, Azzam reveals a serious gap between the ideal status of women in al-Tawhid and their actual life experiences. In an attempt to explain this ambiguous reality and detect the sources of the drift, Azzam explores the historical course of al-Tawhid perspective of gender and gender roles and critically examines the transformations of the conceptualizations and practices concerning gender relations among the Druze, and the institutional patterns which gave and continue to five these conceptualizations and practices an appearance of unyielding permanency. Consequently, the study comes forth as a genuine cultural critique aimed at better understanding of gender roles and relations.

Free Download Daniel A. Grano, "The Eternal Present of Sport: Rethinking Sport and Religion"
English | ISBN: 1439912807 | 2017 | 286 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport.

Free Download Margo Kitts, "The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War "
English | ISBN: 1108835449 | 2023 | 425 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Companion offers a global, comparative history of the interplay between religion and war from ancient times to the present. Moving beyond sensationalist theories that seek to explain why ‘religion causes war,’ the volume takes a thoughtful look at the connection between religion and war through a variety of lenses – historical, literary, and sociological-as well as the particular features of religious war. The twenty-three carefully nuanced and historically grounded chapters comprehensively examine the religious foundations for war, classical just war doctrines, sociological accounts of religious nationalism, and featured conflicts that illustrate interdisciplinary expressions of the intertwining of religion and war. Written by a distinguished, international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of the history and sociology of religion and war, as well as other disciplines.

Free Download Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760"
English | ISBN: 0198840330 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 57 MB
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo,

Free Download Bronislaw Malinowski, "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays"
English | 2013 | pages: 343 | ISBN: 1773237365 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. This is an important collection of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides its reader with a series of concepts concerning religion, magic, science, rite and myth. This is undertaken in an attempt to form a definite impression and understanding of the Trobrianders of New Guinea. The chapters of this book include: "Magic, Science and Religion", "Primitive Man and his Religion", "Rational Mastery by Man of his Surroundings", "Faith and Cult", "The Creative Acts of Religion", "Providence in Primitive Life", "Man’s Selective Interest in Nature", etcetera.

Free Download Brad Stoddard, "Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés "
English | ISBN: 1474292208 | 2017 | 200 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative. Many people uncritically assume that religion is intrinsically violent, or that religion makes people moral, or that it is simply "bullshit". This concise volume tackles 10 of these stereotypes, addresses why scholars of religion find them to be cliched, describes their origins, and explains the social or political work they rhetorically accomplish in the present.

Free Download R. Kirtie Algoe, "Religion, Power, and Society in Suriname and Guyana: Hindu, Muslim, and Christian Relations "
English | ISBN: 1032010207 | 2022 | 230 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book surveys the development of the religious landscape in Suriname and Guyana, focusing on the interaction between Hindus, Muslims, and Christians and responses to Christian dominance. It reflects on how and why these religiously diverse Caribbean societies are characterized by relative harmony, whereas interreligious relationships in other parts of the world have been marked by extreme conflict and violence. The chapters explore ideological and institutional dimensions, including the role of government policies, religious demography, religious leadership, and private religious institutions. The author takes a critical stance towards a negative approach to power struggles and offers a perspective that does not necessarily consider religious diversity a hindrance for religious harmony. Making valuable data accessible to scholars in the English language, this volume provides a framework for the study of interreligious relations and for understanding the religious worlds of the Caribbean.