Download e-book for iPad: Chinese Religious Life by David A. Palmer,Glenn Shive,Philip L. Wickeri

Download e-book for kindle: The Dark Side of Charles Darwin by Jerry Bergman

A unmarried guy stands at the back of the best deception in historical past. Charles Darwin's principles nonetheless penetrate each point of our tradition, together with technology, faith, and schooling. And whereas a lot has been made up of his contribution to the evolutionary speculation, little has been publicized concerning the darkish facet of the guy himself and the way this can have impacted the standard and legitimacy of his study.

New PDF release: Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality

Yoga periods and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are a part of an ongoing non secular experimentation that has unusually deep roots in American historical past. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan spiritual impulses over the past centuries, stressed Souls explores America’s abiding romance with spirituality as religion’s significant other.

Mikkel Thorup's The Total Enemy: Six Chapters of a Violent Idea (Postmodern PDF

The complete Enemy explores the main radicalized different types of enmity, attempting to resolve a few of its historic and modern expressions. ranging from the basis that one among modernity's constitutive values is non-violence, the booklet explores how non-violence, or fairly the making of an international freed from violence, turns into a explanation for violence, in a few circumstances even severe violence and totalitarian terror.

New PDF release: Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology: 0

This booklet seeks to discover old alterations within the lifeworld of the Mi'kmaq Indians of japanese Canada. The Mi'kmaq tradition hero Kluskap serves as a key personality in discussing concerns corresponding to traditions, altering conceptions of land, and human-environmental kinfolk. so as to not depict Mi'kmaq tradition as undying, very important classes in its background are tested.