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 Free Download Kusuma Haklin, "Remittance of Thai Female Marriage Migrants in Germany: Motives, Challenges, and Family Relationships" English | ISBN: 3658416858 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB Remittances of Thai female married migrants have been one of the recognized conflicts among Thai-German spouses for a long time. However, the issue of remittance has only been partially debated and clarified as the economic support of Thai wives towards their natal family in Thailand. This book analyzes the determinants that influence Thai migrant wives to send remittances to their natal families and investigates the impact of remitting on both their marital and origin family relationships. The study acquired primary data from the eight key informants by a case study research approach, and supportive information from secondary informants who were personally related to the key informants. Data collection methods included interviews (in-depth and focus-groups) and observations (non-participant and participant). The findings revealed that the financial aspect is the least significant reason for sending remittances among Thai wives in Germany. The remittance practice appears to be an adoption of the cultural gratitude belief deeply rooted in Thai wives' mentality. Thai women reported having remitted to their parents before they married and maintaining this practice as a particular way to perform their decent child's duty towards parents while living abroad. Remitting also carried a symbolic meaning of love and care underpinned by the concept of a gratitude culture.  Free Download Remembered rapture : the writer at work By bell hooks 2013 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 0805059105 | EPUB | 1 MB Born and raised in the rural South, bell hooks learned early the power of the written word and the importance of speaking her mind. Her passion for words is the heartbeat of this collection of essays.Remembered Rapture celebrates literacy, the joys of reading and writing, and the lasting power of the book. With grace and insight, these essays reveal bell hooks's wide-ranging intellectual scope, untangling the complex personae of women writers, especially those whose work goes against the grain.  Free Download Remember me to Harlem : the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 By Hughes, Langston; Van Vechten, Carl; Bernard, Emily; Hughes, Langston; Van Vechten, Carl 2001 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0679451137 | EPUB | 5 MB Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.  Free Download Esteban Rozo, "Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon " English | ISBN: 1032440589 | 2023 | 182 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century.  Free Download Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon: Christianity, Colonization and the State by Esteban Rozo English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032440589 | 182 Pages | True PDF | 11.8 MB  Free Download Professor Beth Williamson, "Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture " English | ISBN: 178327476X | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 42 MB Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.  Free Download Carole Rakodi, "Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia " English | ISBN: 113833085X | 2024 | 310 pages | PDF | 20 MB This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Building on the author's previous analysis of how religious beliefs, practices and values influence social behaviour and relationships, especially within families, this book focuses on the organisational characteristics of religions and societies.  Free Download Carole Rakodi, "Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia " English | ISBN: 113833085X | 2024 | 310 pages | EPUB | 626 KB This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Building on the author's previous analysis of how religious beliefs, practices and values influence social behaviour and relationships, especially within families, this book focuses on the organisational characteristics of religions and societies.  Free Download Religion and reconciliation in Greek cities : the sacred laws of Selinus and Cyrene By Robertson, Noel 2010 | 414 Pages | ISBN: 0195394003 | PDF | 3 MB Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. In different ways, the content and the format of both inscriptions are so unusual that they have baffled understanding. At Selinus, a large lead tablet with two columns of writing upside down to each other is thought to be a remedy for homicide pollution arising from civil strife, but most of it remains obscure and intractable. The gods who are named and the ritual that is prescribed have been misinterpreted in the light of literary works that dwell on the sensational. Instead, they belong to agrarian religion and follow a regular sequence of devotions, the upside-down columns being reversed midway through the year with magical effect. Gods and ritual were selected because of their appeal to ordinary persons. Selinus was governed by a long enduring oligarchy which made an effort, appearing also in the economic details of sacrifice, to reconcile rich and poor. At Cyrene, a long series of rules were displayed on a marble block in the premier shrine of Apollo. They are extremely diverse - both costly and trivial, customary and novel - and eighty years of disputation have brought no agreement as to the individual meaning or general significance. In fact this mixture of things is carefully arranged to suit a variety of needs, of rich and poor, of citizens of long standing and of new-comers probably of Libyan origin. In one instance the same agrarian deities appear as at Selinus. It is the work once more of a moderate oligarchy, which on other evidence proved its worth during the turbulent events of this period. Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities provides a revised text and a secure meaning for both documents, and interprets the gods, the ritual, and the social background in the light of much comparative material from other Greek cities. Noel Robertson's approach rejects the usual assumptions based on moralizing literary works and in doing so restores to us an ancient nature religion which Greek communities adapted to their own practical purposes  Free Download Religion and Politics in the Middle East: Identity, Ideology, Institutions, and Attitudes By Robert D. Lee 2013 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0813348730 | PDF | 2 MB This innovative book analyzes the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East through a comparative study of five countries-Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Robert D. Lee examines each country in terms of four domains in which state and religion necessarily interact: national identity, ideology, institutions, and political culture. In each domain he considers contradictory hypotheses, some of them asserting that religion is a positive force for political development and others identifying it as an obstacle. Among the questions the book confronts: Is secularization a necessary prerequisite for democratic development? How is it and why is it that religion and politics are so deeply entangled in these five countries? And, why is it that all five countries differ so markedly in the way they identify themselves and use religion for political purposes? The book argues that the nature of religious organization and practice in the Middle East must be understood in the context of individual nation states. The second edition is updated throughout and includes an entirely new chapter discussing the political and religious climate in Saudi Arabia. Earlier introductory analysis has been condensed to make room for new material, and chronologies at the end of each chapter have been added to help students understand the broader context. The second edition of Religion and Politics in the Middle East is a robust addition to courses on the Middle East. |
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