Tag: Religious

Free Download Fabienne Bretscher, "Protecting the Religious Freedom of New Minorities in International Law "
English | ISBN: 1032088907 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 1290 KB
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

Free Download William A. Galston, "Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0521763746 | 2010 | 328 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This multiauthored book explores how many influential ethical traditions – secular and religious, Western and non-Western – wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and Marxism, among the secular; and natural law, which might be claimed by both. The basic questions addressed by each of these traditions are linked to several overarching themes: what poverty is, the particular vulnerabilities of high-risk groups, responsibility for the occurrence of poverty, preferred remedies, how responsibility for its alleviation is distributed, and priorities in the delivery of assistance. These essays are preceded by a background chapter on the types, scope, and causes of poverty in the modern world and some contemporary strategies for eliminating it. The volume concludes with Michael Walzer’s broadly conceived commentary, which provides a direct comparison of the presented views and makes suggestions for further study and policy.

Free Download Juliette Vuille, "Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity "
English | ISBN: 184384589X | 2021 | 297 pages | PDF | 7 MB
First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.

Free Download Marcus Schmücker, "God or the Divine: Religious Transcendence beyond Monism and Theism, between Personality and Impersonality"
English | ISBN: 3110698161 | 2023 | 550 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
Is there a language of transcendence which does not fall under the well-worn categories of monism, theism, pantheism, biblical or pagan monotheism, personal or tripersonal God, or an impersonal absolute, conceived as immanent and/or transcendent? The present set of studies from different fields of research centers on the question whether it is possible to speak at all of transcendence or a divinity, and if it is, under what limitations does such speech proceed. In current discussion in theology and in philosophy of religion, there is a pervasive awareness that the inherited terms and alternatives, developed in the western tradition, no longer facilitate an adequate understanding of the divine. Increasing familiarity with the languages of ‘immanence’ and ‘transcendence’ (under erasure) in Hindu and Buddhist thought has further jumbled our coordinates, while holding out the promise of a more subtle and vital engagement with the matter itself of religious inquiry. A further long-established distinction, between ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal, ‘ also takes on rich new hues in Asian contexts, where the very notion of ‘person’ may undergo unsettling critiques. Transgressing the categories of ‘personal’ and ‘impersonal’ points to the mystical depth of religious traditions, emphasizes their openness and reintegrates essential elements of both perspectives. Advancing with curiosity and caution, all the contributors take seriously the diversity of historical religious traditions, while nevertheless searching for a fresh language that may connect these traditions and provide a common ground of understanding.

Free Download Christoph Mauntel, "Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World "
English | ISBN: 3110685957 | 2021 | 262 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail.

Free Download Clifford B. Anderson, "Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies: An Introduction "
English | ISBN: 3110534320 | 2022 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 14 MB
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research and learning in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible to digital humanists?

Free Download Adam Clart, Philip / Jones, "Transnational Religious Spaces: Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond (Dialectics of"
English | ISBN: 3110689952 | 2020 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 7 MB
This volume, bringing together work by scholars from Europe, East Asia, North America, and West Africa, investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples.

Free Download Victor Borde, "The Purusha Suktam: An A-religious Inquiry into a Sacred Text"
English | ISBN: 148973242X | 2021 | 446 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
The interpretation of the Vedic text has been a prerogative of the Hindu Brahmins, it has always been interpreted from the religious point of view. This book’s approach is from the socio-historical perspective. It is a subaltern reading of the Vedic text, which not only establishes the fact that Purua-sktam is an interpolation but also unveils the reasons for its interpolation. The authors approach is both emic and etic at the same time; a perspective which bringing out unique insights. He has used a diachronic approach to trace the history of interpretation thus revealing the various layers of interpretations of this text. Beginning with contemporary interpretations, he goes down in history pointing out how the orthodox and classical scholars interpreted this text and going further back in time to unravel its origin and usage in the context of yajnas and nature religion.

Free Download Sami Pihlström, "Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9523690043 | PDF | pages: 224 | 2.6 mb
Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a "God’s-Eye-View" ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy.

Free Download Denis Lacorne, "The Limits of Tolerance: Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism "
English | ISBN: 0231187149 | 2019 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 655 KB
The modern notion of tolerance―the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good―emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics.