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 Free Download Reactionary Mathematics by Mazzotti, Massimo; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0226826740 | 350 pages | True PDF | 9.15 MB  Free Download Barrington Moore Jr., Jr. Moore, Barrington, "Moral Purity and Persecution in History" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0691049203 | PDF | pages: 175 | 3.8 mb The intellectual scope and courage to contend with the largest puzzles of human existence and organization distinguish great social thinkers. Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy was a foundational work of historical sociology that influenced a generation of social scientists and, decades later, continues to be widely read and taught. Here, Moore takes up the same tools of historical comparison to investigate why groups of people kill and torture each other. His answer is arrestingly simple: people persecute those whom they perceive as polluting due to their "impure" religious, political, or economic ideas.  Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature By Mira Balberg 2014 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0520280636 | PDF | 11 MB This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.  Lily C Vuong, "Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James" English | 2013 | ISBN: 3161523377 | PDF | pages: 302 | 2.9 mb The Protevangelium of James is arguably the earliest surviving source that exhibits profound interest in Mary, the mother of Jesus. Although frequently cited for later Christian reflections about Mary, gender, and virginity and its influence on popular Christian art, music, and literature, it is not well known outside academic circles and is rarely studied for its own sake. Lily C. Vuong offers a sustained analysis of the text's narrative and literary features in order to explore the portrayal and characterization of Mary through a focus on the theme of purity. By tracing the various ways purity is described and presented in the text, the author contributes to discussions on early Jewish and Christian ideas about purity, representations of women in the ancient world, the early history of Mariology, and the place of non-canonical writings in the history of biblical interpretation.  Fr. Luke Istafanous, Marguerite Rizk, "Purity: An Orthodox Christian Curriculum" English | 2019 | ASIN: B07Q2D7RC8 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 2.7 mb Satan has a brutal war against God's children using sexual immorality as his main weapon and he is relentless about it. We needed to have a strategic plan to fight back and protect our children and youth.  Yitzhaq Feder, "Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor" English | ISBN: 1316517578 | 2021 | 350 pages | PDF | 4 MB In this book, Yitzhaq Feder presents a novel and compelling account of pollution in ancient Israel, from its emergence as an embodied concept, rooted in physiological experience, to its expression as a pervasive metaphor in social-moral discourse. Feder aims to bring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern evidence into a sustained conversation with anthropological and psychological research through comparison with notions of contagion in other ancient and modern cultural contexts. Showing how numerous interpretive difficulties are the result of imposing modern concepts on the ancient texts, he guides readers through wide-ranging parallels to biblical attitudes in ancient Near Eastern, ethnographic, and modern cultures. Feder demonstrates how contemporary evolutionary and psychological research can be applied to ancient textual evidence. He also suggests a path of synthesis that can move beyond the polarized positions which currently characterize modern academic and popular debates bearing on the roles of biology and culture in shaping human behavior.  Heath Lambert, Joshua Harris, "Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace" English | 2013 | ISBN: 0310499232 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 2.4 mb Eight gospel-centered strategies for overcoming the lure of pornography and finally breaking free.
 Daniel Stotland, "Purity and Compromise in the Soviet Party-State: The Struggle for the Soul of the Party, 1941-1952" English | ISBN: 1498540627 | 2017 | 314 pages | PDF | 1234 KB This work offers new ways of conceptualizing the decision-making paradigm of the Soviet party-state that was defined by the persistent shortage of qualified manpower that afflicted the Russian elite. The traditional Russian problems of under administration, combined with the unique features of the Soviet political system, resulted in a dichotomy between practical and ideological demands. The WWII era, examined in this book, provides a microcosm of pressures facing the Kremlin and illustrates the cyclical nature of policy formation forced on it by the paradoxes of the system.  Primordial Purity: Oral Instructions on the Three Words That Strike the Vital Point By Dilgo Khyentse; Ani Jinba Palmo; Nalanda Translation Committee 2016 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 1611803403 | EPUB | 1 MB [center]  Jesus and Purity Halakhah By Thomas Kazen 2010 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1575068095 | PDF | 9 MB What did Jesus think about Jewish practice regarding impurity? How did he relate to the inner-Jewish debates of his day concerning ritual purity and impurity? Did he discard the impurity concept altogether, or was it an obvious and natural part of his Jewish faith and life? Did he advocate another or different type of purity?Ritual or cultic purity was paramount in Jewish society and life during the Second Temple period, and differences in purity halakhah were one of the factors that distinguished various movements. Therefore, considering purity is crucial in any attempt to interpret the historical Jesus within his contemporary context. In the latest or "third" phase of historical Jesus study, researchers have given prominence to Jesus' social and cultural context. In keeping with this goal, Thomas Kazen discusses the historical Jesus alongside what we know of Jewish purity halakhah of his time and explains Jesus' attitude toward impurity. Kazen balances the work of New Testament scholars on Judaism and legal matters by incorporating the historical Jesus studies of Jewish scholars, seeking to engage students of the historical Jesus with the primary materials relating to legal matters. |
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