Free Download Catalin-Stefan Popa, "Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions: Studies on the Interaction of Religion and Society from Antiquity to Modern Times"
English | ISBN: 3643914261 | 2023 | 370 pages | PDF, RAR | 96 MB + 103 MB
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Free Download The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions (Audiobook)
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1440728208 | M4B@84 kbps | 20h 12m | 739 MB
Author: Huston Smith | Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Huston Smith's masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner-rather than the institutional-dimension of these religions, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination.
This revised and updated edition provides sympathetic descriptions of the various traditions, explaining how they work "from the inside," which is a big reason why this cherished classic has sold more than two million copies since it first appeared in 1958.

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Free Download Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People"
English |ASIN : B0CNJ9WRKP | 2024 | pages | EPUB | 22 MB
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world

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Free Download Loe Joo Tan, "The Trinity and the Religions: A Cappadocian Assessment of Gavin D'Costa's Theology of Religions"
English | ISBN: 1978700601 | 2018 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
Will the followers of other religions who have not heard of the gospel be saved? Since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic church has been grappling with this question, culminating in a recent document, Dominus Iesus in 2000. In the post-DI climate, the British theologian, Gavin D'Costa, has been described as a "representative post-DI theologian of religions." And with good reason, since other theologians such as Jacques Dupuis whose work along the lines of "neo-Rahnerianism" have been curtailed by DI.

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Free Download Bodie Hodge, "World Religions and Cults Volume 2"
English | ISBN: 0890519226 | 2016 | 492 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
This stunning second volume deals with many Eastern religions like Hinduism, Taoism, New Age, Sikhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism as well as other pagan based systems like Witchcraft, Voodoo, Greek mythology, and many more!

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Free Download Religions and Development By Xavier Couplet; Daniel Heuchenne
2009 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 2960070917 | EPUB | 2 MB
Does religion shape development ? Can the spiritual influence the material ? In 2007, on average, a Protestant "produced" 2 times more wealth than a Catholic, 4 times more than an Orthodox, 13 times more than a Muslim, 18 times more than a Buddhist, 25 more than a Hindu and 42 times more than an animist. Why? Strangely, no Nobel Prize winners have given their opinion on this worrying situation. This book researches the factors that influence development and shows that the impact of religion is decisive.

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Free Download The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity [TTC Audio]
English | February 28, 2020 | ASIN: B084YV1YYT | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 34m | 733 MB
Lecturer: Hans-Friedrich Mueller
In The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity, you will meet the fascinating, ancient polytheistic peoples of the Mediterranean and beyond, their many gods and goddesses, and their public and private worship practices, as you come to appreciate the foundational role religion played in their lives. Professor Hans-Friedrich Mueller, of Union College in Schenectady, New York, makes this ancient world come alive in 24 lectures with captivating stories of intrigue, artifacts, illustrations, and detailed descriptions from primary sources of intriguing personalities.
In the ancient Mediterranean area, religion was not separate from daily life. To the contrary, religion was daily life. The many dozen gods of this ancient world were everywhere, with spirits inhabiting every crack and crevice of life. These polytheists believed they had a strict contract with their deities: If they took care of their gods, their gods would take care of them (or at least not harm them). Consequently, they built extraordinary temples to honor their deities, brought food and wine to them, sacrificed animals for them, and held sacred meals with their gods. In fact, they followed numerous rules and regulations that circumscribed almost all aspects of life both inside and outside the home - anything and everything to keep the gods happy. Consequently, the religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean make a wonderful lens through which to develop a deeper understanding of their world.

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Free Download The Evolution of Religions
by Grande, Lance;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0231212305 | 685 pages | True PDF | 55.52 MB

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Free Download Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Silke Jansen
English | June 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1496235738, 1496236076 | True EPUB | 360 pages | 3.1 MB
Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these traditions as typologically and historically related. This curated selection of the traditions allows readers to compare and highlight convergences, while the description and comparison of the traditions challenges colonial erasures and expands knowledge about endangered cultures.

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Free Download Wayne Proudfoot, "William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience"
English | 2004 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 0231132042, 0231132050 | PDF | 0,8 mb
The "science of religion" is an important element in the interpretation of William James's work and in the methodology of the study of religion. An authority on pragmatism and the philosophy of religion, Wayne Proudfoot and a stellar group of contributors from a variety of disciplines including religion, philosophy, psychology, and history, bring innovative perspectives to James's work. Each contributor focuses on a specific theme in The Varieties of Religious Experience and suggests how James's treatment of that theme can fruitfully be brought to bear, sometimes with revisions or extensions, on current debate about religious experience.

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