Buddhism for Dudes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism for Dudes write by Gerry Stribling. This book was released on 2015-08-25. Buddhism for Dudes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A tough former Marine leads Buddhist basic training for the average Joe. In Buddhism for Dudes, Gerry “Strib” Stribling, former Marine and all-around good guy, answers questions on life and living with a healthy dose of Buddhist wisdom for the regular guy. Strib takes a good look at who the Buddha was, meditation, karma, and more. With good humor and without sentimentalism, he explains these down-to-earth insights in everyday language. Showing how Buddhism boldly approaches life’s problems head on, unflinching and alert—like a soldier in a forward listening post in the dark of night—Strib emphasizes the Buddhist call to moral action for the good of oneself and others.
Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality
Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality write by Carole M. Cusack. This book was released on 2016-11-18. Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new religions including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Church of Scientology, and the Children of God. New religions were regarded with suspicion by society in general and Religious Studies scholars alike until the 1990s, when the emergence of a second generation of 'new new' religions – based on popular cultural forms including films, novels, computer games and comic books – and highly individualistic spiritualities confirmed the utter transformation of the religio-spiritual landscape. Indeed, Scientology and ISKCON appeared almost traditional and conservative when compared to the radically de-institutionalised, eclectic, parodic, fun-loving and experimental fiction-based, invented and hyper-real religions. In this book, scholarly treatments of cutting-edge religious and spiritual trends are brought into conversation with contributions by representatives of Dudeism, the Church of All Worlds, the Temple of the Jedi Order and Tolkien spirituality groups. This book will simultaneously entertain, shock, challenge and delight scholars of religious studies, as well as those with a wider interest in new religious movements.
The Heart of the Lotus
The Heart of the Lotus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Heart of the Lotus write by Sylvia Wetzel. This book was released on 2015-06-25. The Heart of the Lotus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do present day women take an interest in a “middle age” religion? Buddhism like Christianity was founded by a male teacher and was organised, transmitted and interpreted by men. This book is “a protocol of an encounter”. A contemporary woman has read the teachings of the Buddha “against the grain” and has found some first answers and many more questions. In order for a religion to stay “alive” it has to be rediscovered by every generation anew. Just to follow tradition is not enough. Whenever women take interest in a traditional religion – be it Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism or Islam – they are given a double task: We are looking for a contemporary expression of an old teaching. Many contemporary male Buddhists from the West and some from Asia are working on this task. Women have to read patriarchal teachings critically “with the eyes of a woman”. The Heart of the Lotus presents central teachings of Buddhism and describes traps we fall into, if we don not consider our cultural background and our biological sex and social gender. It takes up typical questions women are asking and presents first results: concepts and exercices which can support contemporary women (and men) on their path to inner and outer freedom.
Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia
Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia write by Nita Kumar. This book was released on 2020-02-20. Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships? This collection offers a variety of distinct perspectives on these questions. Organized thematically, areas explored include the subordination of women, the nature of resistance, boundary making and the construction of identity and community. Methodologically, the essays use imaginative reconstructions of women's experiences, particularly where the only accounts available are written by men. The essays focus on Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, Sri Lankan Buddhist women and South Asians in the diaspora in the US and UK. Pioneering new research into food and gender roles in South Asia, this will be of use to students of food studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
Indonesia
Indonesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indonesia write by Jean Gelman Taylor. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Indonesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sociale geschiedenis van Indonesië.
