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Free Download Transcending tradition : Jewish mathematicians in German speaking academic culture By Ungar, Ruti; Epple, Moritz; Bergmann, Birgit
2012 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 3642224636 | PDF | 36 MB
A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.

Free Download Sven Betjes, "Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Em"
English | ISBN: 9004537457 | 2024 | 356 pages | PDF | 18 MB
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Free Download The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise By Laura J. Olson, Svetlana Adonyeva
2012 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0299290344 | PDF | 2 MB
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.Table of Contents:Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise1 Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship2 Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History3 Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women’s Stories of Courtship and Marriage4 The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women’s Identity Construction5 Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women’s Chastushki6 Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood7 Magic, Control, and Social Roles8 Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World9 Death, the Dead, and Memory-KeepersConclusion

Free Download Craig Kallendorf, "The Virgilian Tradition: Book History and the History of Reading in Early Modern Europe "
English | ISBN: 1138375144 | 2019 | 320 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
The essays in this collection approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading. The first group of essays uses Virgil’s place in post-classical culture to raise questions of broad scholarly interest: How, exactly, does modern reception theory challenge traditional notions of literary practice and value? How do the marginal comments of early readers provide insight into their character and mind? How does rhetoric help shape literary criticism? The second group of essays begins from the premise that the material form in which early modern readers encountered this most important of Latin poets played a key role in how they understood what they read. Thus title pages and illustrations help shape interpretation, with the results of that interpretation in turn becoming the comments that early modern readers regularly entered into the margins of their books. The volume concludes with four more specialized studies that show how these larger issues play out in specific neo-Latin works of the early modern period.

Free Download The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle By Jonathan S. Burgess
2001 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0801866529 | PDF | 2 MB
Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer’s authority on the war’s history and the legends surrounding it, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger, often overlooked context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. He traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought.

Free Download The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 1 to 10: Foundations of the Buddhist Path By Choying Tobden Dorje
2015 | 976 Pages | ISBN: 1559394358 | EPUB | 2 MB
Ngawang Zangpo (Translator)In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational, and above all, practical. Its twenty-five books, or topical divisions, offer a comprehensive and detailed view of the Buddhist path according to the early translation school of Tibetan Buddhism, spanning the vast range of Buddhist teachings from the initial steps to the highest esoteric teachings of great perfection. Choying Tobden Dorje’s magnum opus appears in English here for the first time. In Foundations of the Buddhist Path, which covers the first ten of the treatise’s twenty-five books, the author surveys the scope of the entire work and then begins with the topics that set the cornerstones for all subsequent Buddhist practice: what constitutes proper spiritual apprenticeship, how to receive the teachings, how to make the best use of this life, and how to motivate ourselves to generate effort on the spiritual path. He then describes refuge and the vows that define the path of individual liberation before turning to the bodhisattva’s way-buddha nature, how to uplift the mind to supreme awakening, the bodhisattva’s training, and the attainments of the paths leading to supreme awakening.

Free Download Seiðr Magic: The Norse Tradition of Divination and Trance by Dean Kirkland
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1644119447 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.6 MB
A practical guide to the Norse shamanic techniques of seiðr

Free Download Reconfiguring Islamic tradition : reform, rationality, and modernity By Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muḥammad ʻAbduh; Haj, Samira; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
2009 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0804769753 | EPUB + PDF | 1 MB
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad ‘Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject’s location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world.

Free Download Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism: The Tradition of Segnature, Indigenous and Trans-cultural Shamanic Traditions in Italy (Aries) by Angela Puca
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 900469417X | True PDF | 220 pages | 17 MB
Shamanism is thriving as an exotic import and a hidden native tradition in Italy today. This ethnographical work uncovers two faces of Italian shamanism. The first is trans-cultural shamans who creatively adapt rituals and beliefs from indigenous cultures worldwide. Second, extensive fieldwork shows how regional folk magic practices of segnatoriand segnatrici constitute a little-known but enduring form of native Italian shamanism.

Free Download Vincent E. Bacote, Laura Miguelez Quay, Dennis L. Okholm, "Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0830827757 | EPUB | pages: 245 | 0.3 mb
By definition, a high view of Scripture inheres in evangelicalism. However, there does not seem to be a uniform way to articulate an evangelical doctrine of Scripture. Taking up the challenge, Vincent Bacote, Laura Miguélez and Dennis Okholm present twelve essays that explore in depth the meaning of an evangelical doctrine of Scripture that takes seriously both the human and divine dimensions of the Bible. Selected from the presentations made at the 2001 Wheaton Theology Conference, the essays approach this vital subject from three directions. Stanley J. Grenz, Thomas Buchan, Bruce L. McCormack and Donald W. Dayton consider the history of evangelical thinking on the nature of Scripture. John J. Brogan, Kent Sparks, J. Daniel Hays and Richard L. Schultz address the nature of biblical authority. Bruce Ellis Benson, John R. Franke, Daniel J. Treier and David Alan Williams explore the challenge of hermeneutics, especially as it relates to interpreting Scripture in a postmodern context. Together these essays provide a window into current evangelical scholarship on the doctrine of Scripture and also advance the dialogue about how best to construe our faith in the Word of God, living and written, that informs not only the belief but also the practice of the church.