Oren Tal, "Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture (Conte"
English | ISBN: 2503553354 | 2017 | 290 pages | PDF | 162 MB
The coming of Alexander the Great ushered in many changes within the southern Levant. The subsequent period saw many upheavals, including the Greek and Roman conquests, the Jewish Revolts, and the gradual Christianization of the 'Holy Land'. Throughout this period, various local cults and cultic places dotted the landscape. These cults included an assortment of 'pagan', Jewish, Samaritan, and Christian ritual behaviours. Although undergoing processes of profound change, the cults maintained much of their older identities, while simultaneously interacting with each other. This volume seeks to present these processes both synchronically and diachronically, along three different axes-cultic places, personnel, and objects. The common denominator shared by these three axes is the people whose beliefs and practices shaped the religious behaviour in the Greco-Roman Southern Levant. The 26 articles in this volume investigate whether cultic practices formed a coherent cultural system. They consider the co-existence and competition of the different religious systems, analyzing them in terms of continuity, discontinuity, and change over an extended period of time, roughly from Alexander the Great to the Imperial integration of Christianity (ca. late 4th c. BCE - early 4th c. CE). The approaches presented at a conference held at The Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem and manifested in this volume are varied and interdisciplinary, combining archaeological, philological, historical, and art-historical analyses of the multiple bodies of evidence.

Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTFKD514 | 2023 | 16 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 474 MB
Author: Jacob L. Mackey
Narrator: Adam Barr
Belief and Cult argues that belief isn't uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices-emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social reality, and social power. In doing so, he also offers a thorough argument for the importance of belief to other non-Christian religions. At the individual level, the book argues, belief played an indispensable role in the genesis of cult action and religious emotion. However, belief also had a collective dimension.

The Cult of Stephen in Jerusalem: Inventing a Patron Martyr (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by Hugo Méndez
English | October 6, 2022 | ISBN: 019284699X | True EPUB/PDF | 190 pages | 0.8/1.7 MB
As the site of only a small and obscure Christian population between 135 and 313 CE, Jerusalem witnessed few instances of anti-Christian persecution. This fact became a source of embarrassment to the city in late antiquity―a period when martyr traditions, relics, and shrines were closely intertwined with local prestige. At that time, the city had every incentive to stretch the fame of its few, apostolic martyrs as far as possible-especially the fame of the biblical St. Stephen, the figure traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr (Acts 6-8). What the church lacked in the quantity of its martyrs, it believed it could compensate for in an exclusive, local claim to the figure widely hailed as the "Protomartyr", "firstborn of the martyrs", and "chief of confessors" in contemporary sources.

Size: 154.15 MB | Total Duration: 12:14 | Total Tracks: 4
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Album: For Now, Not Forever
Artist: Queen Cult
Genre: Pop, Rock
Date/Year: 2023

Language: English
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Genre: Documentary, Crime

Language: English
320.09 MB | 01:03:09 | 3766 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1920x1080 | A_EAC3, 48 Khz, 6 channels
Genre: Documentary, Crime

Language: English
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Genre: Documentary, Crime

Sean Heath, "Sacral Kingship in Bourbon France: The Cult of Saint Louis, 1589 - 1830"
English | ISBN: 1350173193 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Historians of the ancien régime have long been interested in the relationship between religion and politics, and yet many issues remain contentious, including the question of sacral monarchy. Scholars are divided over how - and, indeed, if - it actually operated. With its nuanced analysis of the cult of Saint Louis, covering a vast swathe of French history from the Wars of Religion through the zenith of absolute monarchy under Louis XIV to the French Revolution and Restoration,

Size: 473.11 MB | Total Duration: 01:15:56 | Total Tracks: 13
Format: FLAC | 883 Kbps
Album: Perkins Palace 1983
Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Genre: Pop, Rock
Date/Year: 2023

A Cult of One: How to Deprogram Yourself from Narcissistic Abuse (Audiobook)
English | January 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0BSGBTDMF | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 31m | 127 MB
Author and Narrator: Richard Grannon
Are you truly taking care of yourself? Or are you too busy taking care of everyone else?