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Free Download Edward Y. J. Chung, "Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 3030947467 | 2022 | 406 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong 情) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions.

Free Download Dan Graham : rock my religion By Graham, Dan; Graham, Dan; Eshun, Kodwo
2012 | 105 Pages | ISBN: 1846380863 | PDF | 8 MB
Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion (1982–1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a historical genealogy of rock music and an ambitious thesis about the origins of North America’s popular culture. Because of its passionate embrace of underground music, its low-fi aesthetics, interest in politics, and liberal approach to historiography, the video has become a landmark work in the history of contemporary moving image and art; but it has remained, possibly for the same reasons, one of Graham’s least written about works–underappreciated and possibly misunderstood by the critics who otherwise celebrate him. This illustrated study of Graham’s groundbreaking work fills that critical gap. Kodwo Eshun examines Rock My Religion not only in terms of contemporary art and Graham’s wider body of work but also as part of the broader culture of the time. He explores the relationship between Graham and New York’s underground music scene of the 1980s, connecting the artistic methods of the No Wave bands–especially their group dynamics and relationship to the audience–and Rock My Religion’s treatment of working class identity and culture.

Free Download Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, "Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power"
English | ISBN: 1666704180 | 2021 | 190 pages | PDF | 59 MB
Reframing Ideas about Feminist Theory and Theology for the 21st Century

Free Download Rachel Hammersley, "Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 "
English | ISBN: 178327784X | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
Civil Religion – a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state – made an important contribution to the development of religious and political thought at key moments of early modern British political and colonial history. As this volume shows, it was at work not just during the Enlightenment, but within a much wider periodical framework: the Reformation, the rise of the Puritan movement, the conflict over the Stuart state and church, the English Revolution, and the formation of key American colonies in the eighteenth century. Advocates of Civil Religion tried to reconcile a national church with religious toleration and design a constitution capable of preventing the church from interfering with affairs of state.

Free Download Barbarism and religion. Volume 6, Barbarism : triumph in the West By Pocock, John Greville Agard
2015 | 550 Pages | ISBN: 1107091462 | PDF | 4 MB
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock’s acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon’s narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress of both barbarism and religion from east to west, leaving much history behind as they do so. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Barbarism: Triumph in the West represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt to discover and present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it, and why he said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe

Free Download Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary"
English | ISBN: 1350098302 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary sources in an approach that is both methodologically innovative and expansive in its cross-cultural and multi-religious scope.

Free Download Arvind Sharma, "A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion"
English | 2006 | pages: 243 | ISBN: 9048172551, 1402050135 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Philosophy of religion as a discipline first arose in Europe; its subject matter has been profoundly influenced by the practices of European Christianity. While Eastern and Western religions subsequently found a place in these studies, one global religious tradition, namely, the primal tradition, remains unrepresented in its discussions. This book examines the significantly different perspectives offered by primal religions on virtually every theme discussed in the philosophy of religion.

Free Download The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom: A Semiotic Reinterpretation of the Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century
by Peter A Redpath, Imelda Chlodna-Blach
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004468005 | 325 Pages | True PDF | 21.6 MB

Free Download The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor
English | May 27, 1987 | ISBN: 9780062507914 | 528 pages | PDF | 8.27 Mb
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess-which is tied to the cycles of women’s bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth-was the original religion of all humanity.

Free Download Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson, "Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals "
English | ISBN: 0198832761 | 2019 | 432 pages | EPUB | 1164 KB
Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus’ discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society’s efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome’s quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus’ narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius’ failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.