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Free Download Joanne Robinson, "Waiting in Christian Traditions: Balancing Ideology and Utopia"
English | ISBN: 0739189395 | 2015 | 204 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Christians wait for prayers to be answered, for an afterlife in heaven, for the Virgin Mary to appear, and for God to speak. They wait to be liberated from oppression, to be "saved" or born again, for Easter morning to dawn, for healing, for conversion, and for baptism. Waiting and the disappointment and hope that often accompany it are explained in terms that are, at first glance, remarkably invariant across Christian traditions: what will happen will happen "on God’s time." A study of sources from across Christian traditions shows that there is considerable complexity beneath this surface claim. Understandings of free will and personal agency alongside shifts in institutional and theological commitments change the ways waiting is understood and valued. Waiting is often considered a positive state to be endured as long as God wills, and that fundamental understanding helps keep the promises at the heart of Christianity alive. Scholars have long overlooked the problem and promise of waiting despite (or perhaps because of) its prevalence. Indeed, there are relatively few mystics, few who have undergone "sudden" conversion, and few who have attained saintly status. Many, however, have waited, and that problem remains prominent-and its solutions remain influential-in Christian traditions today.

Free Download Dr. Jennifer N Brown, "Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honour of Michael G. Sargent "
English | ISBN: 1903153964 | 2021 | 410 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts.

Free Download Roland Faber, "Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities"
English | ISBN: 1498513352 | 2016 | 284 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world’s religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another, "unity" among religions, as based on justice and the will to accept the other’s religions and even irreligiosity as means of justice, will not prevail without an internal and external, spiritual, theological, philosophical and practical investigation into the very reasons for religious strife and fanaticism as well as the resources that people, cultures, religions and wisdom traditions might provide to disentangle them from the injustices of their host regimes, and to seek the "balance" that leads to a measure of universal fairness among the multiplicity of religious and non-religious expressions of humanity.

Free Download Arndt Graf Jan van der Putten, Monika Arnez, Edwin P. Wieringa, "Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions"
English | ISBN: 1443889938 | 2017 | 315 pages | PDF | 1415 KB
This volume is the result of a conference held in October 2015 in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing developments that are considered important in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part of the book reflects on the traumatic experiences of the Indonesian nation caused by a failed coup on October 1, 1965. In more general theoretical terms, this topic connects to the field of memory studies, which, in recent decades, has made an academic comeback. The focus of the chapters in this section is how certain, often distressing, events are represented in narratives in a variety of media that are periodically renewed, changed, rehearsed, repeated, and performed, in order to become or stay part of the collective memory of a certain group of people. The second part of the book explores how forces of globalisation have impacted upon the local and, linguistically surprisingly, rather homogeneous cultural productions of Indonesia. The main strands of inquiry in this second section are topics of global trends in religion, responses to urban development, the impact of popular literary developments, and how traditions are revisited in order to come to terms with international cultural developments.

Free Download Albert Sonnenfeld, "Food Is Culture (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)"
English | 2006 | pages: 163 | ISBN: 0231137907 | PDF | 0,7 mb
Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food―its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption―represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the development of specific social structures and traditions.

Free Download Carrie Morey, "Callie’s Biscuits and Southern Traditions: Heirloom Recipes from Our Family Kitchen"
English | 2013 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1476713219 | EPUB | 37,1 mb
The popular owner-entrepreneur of Callie’s Biscuits reveals her modern approach to traditional Southern cooking, sharing charming stories and fabulous, accessible recipes in a Southern-style Make the Bread, Buy the Butter.

Free Download Coelbren
by Greer, John Michael;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1801520623 | 156 pages | True EPUB | 6.48 MB

Free Download Coelbren
by Greer, John Michael;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1801520623 | 156 pages | True EPUB | 6.48 MB

Free Download Stephen Billett, "Vocational Education: Purposes, Traditions and Prospects"
English | 2011 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 9401782830, 9400719531 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its key purposes, objects, formation and practices. In short, it seeks to outline and elaborate the nature of the project of vocational education. It addresses a significant gap in the available literature by providing a single text that elaborates the scope and diversity of the sector, its key objectives (i.e. vocations and occupations), its formation and development as an education sector, and the scope of its purposes and considerations in the curriculum. The volume achieves these objectives by discussing and defining the concept of vocational education as being that form of education that seeks to advise individuals about, prepare them for, and further develop their capacities to perform the kinds of occupations that societies require and individuals need to participate in―and through which they often come to define themselves. In particular, it discusses the distinctions between occupations as a largely social fact and vocations as being a socially shaped outcome assented to by individuals. As people identify closely with the kinds of occupations they engage in, the standing of, and the effectiveness of vocational education is central to individuals’ well-being, competence and progress. Ultimately, this book argues that the provision of vocational education needs to realise important personal and social goals.

Free Download Maoz Azaryahu, "An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration"
English | ISBN: 3110722992 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to investigates onymic commemoration as a technology of immortality. Bringing together issues as diverse as casualty lists on public display and honorific street-names, the inquiry expands on the commemorative capacity of an "everlasting name" as a site of remembrance. It explores how notions about names, being, fame and an afterlife have coalesced into prestigious and time-honored commemorative practices and traditions that demonstrate the cultural power of an "everlasting name" to confer immortality through remembrance. By linking ancient traditions and modern practices, this book offers a cross-cultural analysis of onymic commemoration that is broad in scope and covers a wide time frame, encompassing diverse historical periods, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings.