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Free Download Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 By Alison Conway; David Alvarez
2019 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 148750179X | PDF | 4 MB
Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited. Largely ignored and understudied techniques employed by writers to influence cultural understandings of tolerance are rich for exploration. In investigating texts ranging from early modern to Romantic, Alison Conway, David Alvarez, and their contributors shed light on what literature can say about toleration, and how it can produce and manage feelings of tolerance and intolerance.Beginning with an overview of the historical debates surrounding the terms "toleration" and "tolerance," this book moves on to discuss the specific contributions that literature and literary modes have made to cultural history, studying the literary techniques that philosophers, theologians, and political theorists used to frame the questions central to the idea and practice of religious toleration. Tracing the rhetoric employed by a wide range of authors, the contributors delve into topics such as conversion as an instrument of power in Shakespeare; the relationship between religious toleration and the rise of Enlightenment satire; and the ways in which writing can act as a call for tolerance.

Free Download Medieval Women Religious, c. 800-c. 1500: New Perspectives (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion) edited by Janet Burton, Kimm Curran
English | January 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1837650292 | True EPUB/PDF | 278 pages | 9/20.4 MB
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.

Free Download Robert J Shepherd, "Faith in Heritage: Displacement, Development, and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China (Heritage, Tourism, and Commun"
English | ISBN: 1611320747 | 2013 | 179 pages | EPUB | 1096 KB
Using the example of China’s Wutai Shan―recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park―Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? What does heritage preservation mean for a site whose intrinsic value isn’t in its historic buildings or cultural significance, but for its sacredness within the Buddhist faith? How does a society navigate these issues, particularly one where open religious expression has only recently become acceptable? These questions and more are explored in this book, perfect for students and practitioners of heritage management looking for a new perspective.

Free Download Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion By Oddbjørn Leirvik
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1472524497 | PDF | 2 MB
The notion of Interreligious Studies signals a new academic perspective on the study of religion, characterized by a relational approach. Interreligious Studies defines the essential features of interreligious studies compared with alternative conceptions of religious studies and theology. The book discusses pressing and salient challenges in interreligious relations, including interreligious dialogue in practice and theory, interfaith dialogue and secularity, confrontational identity politics, faith-based diplomacy, the question of interfaith learning in school, and interreligious responses to extremism.Interreligious Studies is a cutting-edge study from one of the most important voices in Europe in the field, Oddbjørn Leirvik, and includes case study material from his native Norway including interreligious responses to the bomb attack in Norway on 22nd July 2011, as well as examples from a number of other national and global contextsExpanding discussions on interreligious dialogue and the relationship between religions in new and interesting ways, this book is a much-needed addition to the growing literature on interreligious studies.

Free Download Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot by Christopher Gehrz
English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 0802876218 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2.32 Mb
The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh’s life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator-the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight-he has since become increasingly identified with his sympathies for white supremacy, eugenics, and the Nazi regime in Germany. Underexplored amid all this is Lindbergh’s spiritual life. What beliefs drove the contradictory impulses of this twentieth-century icon?

Free Download Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War By John C. Pinheiro
2014 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0199948674 | PDF | 2 MB
Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical SocietyThe term Manifest Destiny has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and American republicanism relied on adeeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. Whenthe overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this Beecherite Synthesis provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted anintegral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers tointerpret Mexico’s culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics.Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on Manifest Destiny, American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.

Free Download S Irfan Habib, "Jihad Or Ijtihad: Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporay Islam"
English | 2012 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 9350293757 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
While Europe was still stuck in the Dark Ages, scientists in the Islamic world were tranlsating Aristotle, and making huge strides in astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. Two thousand years later, the idea of ‘scientific progress’ seems to be locked in a hopeless war with Islam. When and how did Islam lose its enthusiasm for the workings of the natural world? S. Irfan Habib, one of the country’s foremost historians, traces teh trajectomy of how ‘mainstream’ Islam came to question modern science – beginning with the reformers of the nineteenth century and ending with present-day idealogoues. Through the lives of famous men like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, he demonstrates that the modern-day promulagtion of Islam and its followers as ‘anti-modern’ and ‘anti-science’ is a myth that leads, quite literally, to explosives consequences. Habib also channels his scholarship to both history and Islam to question the controversial idea of ‘Islamic science’ as a category distinct from ‘modern’, ‘Eurocentric’ science. In an engaging, easy style that belies the weightiness of the questions it seeks to answer, Jihad or Itijihad challenges both stereotypes and propaganda. This book places in perspective the relationship between Islam and science today.

Free Download The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain By Patrick J. O’Banion
2012 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0271058994 | PDF | 9 MB
The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain explores the practice of sacramental confession in Spain between roughly 1500 and 1700. One of the most significant points of contact between the laity and ecclesiastical hierarchy, confession lay at the heart of attempts to bring religious reformation to bear upon the lives of early modern Spaniards. Rigid episcopal legislation, royal decrees, and a barrage of prescriptive literature lead many scholars to construct the sacrament fundamentally as an instrument of social control foisted upon powerless laypeople. Drawing upon a wide range of early printed and archival materials, this book considers confession as both a top-down and a bottom-up phenomenon. Rather than relying solely upon prescriptive and didactic literature, it considers evidence that describes how the people of early modern Spain experienced confession, offering a rich portrayal of a critical and remarkably popular component of early modern religiosity.

Free Download Cecil E. Greek, "The Religious Roots of American Sociology "
English | ISBN: 0367074249 | 2019 | 280 pages | EPUB | 346 KB
This book, first published in 1992, demonstrates that American sociology has deep religious roots which continue, both directly and indirectly, to influence the discipline today. Early American sociology was closely aligned with the social gospel movement in Protestantism, which hope to make use of the new science of sociology to help solve social problems and, ultimately, prepare America for the establishment of Christ’s kingdom on earth. Although American sociology became secularized after 1920, it retained its ameliorative outlook, hoping to ‘save’ mankind through positivistic analysis and technocratic societal planning.

Free Download Christian Smith, "Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America"
English | ISBN: 0691228078 | 2021 | 312 pages | EPUB | 352 KB
How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their children