Tag: Religious

Free Download Lukas G. Grzybowski, "The Christianization of Scandinavia in the Viking Era: Religious Change in Adam of Bremen’s Historical Work "
English | ISBN: 1641892307 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 1531 KB
This book discusses Adam of Bremen’s perceptions and interpretation of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages. The views the chronicler presents in the Gesta Hammaburgensis constitute the central element of this analysis. By departing from the historiography―both the older view of the Gesta as trustworthy, and the recent view of the work as unreliable and biased―this book focuses instead on the Christianization of Scandinavia as an authorial concept. What follows is a reevaluation of the

Free Download Sabrina Müller, "Religious Experience and Its Transformational Power: Qualitative and Hermeneutic Approaches to a Practical Theological F"
English | ISBN: 3111000052 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 39 MB
The author approaches the phenomenon ‘religious experience’ through a qualitative study in which young, urban people from Europe and the USA are empirically examined. It becomes clear that individuals themselves are constructive agents of experience and theology. Religious experience manifests itself as a transformative perspective of hope in the lives of young people. The study ends with a plea for a theology from below, based on liberation theology and feminist theories, in which contextual perspectives are central to practical theological theorising.

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?