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Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central

Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central
Models of Personal Conversion in Russian cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Jens Herlth (editor), Christian Zehnder (editor)
2015 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 3034315961 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to the sacred. However, the essays presented go beyond the original meaning of conversion as a change of religious beliefs. They address shifts in style, aesthetic outlooks, and mindsets, political and ideological transfigurations as well as religious conversions in the true sense of the term. Whether at the level of culture, society or biography, the study of conversions opens the way to profound reflections about questions of identity, cultural ruptures, and continuity. The awareness of former conversions and the possible «convertibility» of one's own ideological, spiritual or social stance has been among the central traits of Russian intellectual culture during the last two centuries.

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Mircea Eliade From Magic to Myth (After Spirituality)

Mircea Eliade From Magic to Myth (After Spirituality)
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth (After Spirituality) By Moshe Idel
2014 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1433120135 | PDF | 7 MB
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade's ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade's attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade's personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.

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Mind the Gap How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus

Mind the Gap How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus
Matthias Henze, "Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus"
English | 2017 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1506406424 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple period, it's essential to read what they wrote-and what Jesus and his followers might have read-beyond the Hebrew scriptures. Henze introduces the four-century gap between the Old and New Testaments and some of the writings produced during this period (different Old Testaments, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls); discusses how these texts have been read from the Reformation to the present, emphasizing the importance of the discovery of Qumran; guides the student's encounter with select texts from each collection; and then introduces key ideas found in specific New Testament texts that simply can't be understood without these early Jewish "intertestamental" writings-the Messiah, angels and demons, the law, and the resurrection of the dead. Finally, he discusses the role of these writings in the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Mind the Gap broadens curious students' perspectives on early Judaism and early Christianity and welcomes them to deeper study.

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Migrants and Strangers in an African City Exile, Dignity, Belonging

Migrants and Strangers in an African City Exile, Dignity, Belonging
Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging By Bruce Whitehouse
2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0253000815 | PDF | 2 MB
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.

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Migraine in Medicine A Machine-Generated Overview of Current Research

Migraine in Medicine A Machine-Generated Overview of Current Research
Migraine in Medicine: A Machine-Generated Overview of Current Research
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030973581 | 920 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This book on migraine is the first machine-generated scientific book in medicine published by Springer Nature, and reflects a new publication format which focuses on literature reviews: state-of-the-art computer algorithms were applied to select relevant sources from Springer Nature journal articles, rearrange them in a topical order, and provide short summaries of these articles. The result is the auto-summarization of current texts, organized by means of a similarity-based clustering routine in coherent chapters and sections. The human intervention of a world-renowned expert in this field grants the scientific soundness and appropriate organization of the contents identified. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, as is migraine, the most important among the chronic non communicable diseases under the age of 50s.

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Midnight on the Marne

Midnight on the Marne
Midnight on the Marne by Sarah Adlakha
English | August 9, 2022 | ISBN: 1250774594 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 4 MB
Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices.

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