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Rig Veda
Häftad, 2005
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155 kr
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The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into …
On Hinduism
Inbunden, 2014
767 kr
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In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over …
On Hinduism
Häftad, 2016
748 kr
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In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over …
Hindu Myths
A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit
Av Wendy Doniger, Wendy Doniger
Häftad, 2004
147 kr
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Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, …
Redeeming the Kamasutra
Inbunden, 2016
392 kr
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The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet, it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin--sometimes taken as a matter …
The Ring of Truth
And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
Inbunden, 2017
650 kr
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According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fiancé into thinking that he'd spoiled …
Hindu Myths
A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit
E-bok, 2004
105 kr
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Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, …
Rig Veda
E-bok, 2005
108 kr
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The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into …
Ring of Truth
And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
E-bok, 2017
294 kr
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Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) …
Ring of Truth
And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
E-bok, 2017
294 kr
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Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings continually appear in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) …
Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Myths of Self-Imitation
E-bok, 2004
1012 kr
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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually …
Redeeming the Kamasutra
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
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The Kamasutra , composed in the third century CE, is the world''s most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter …
Redeeming the Kamasutra
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Kamasutra , composed in the third century CE, is the world''s most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter …
Love's Subtle Magic
An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
Häftad, 2016
1160 kr
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage …
Love's Subtle Magic
An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
E-bok, 2016
637 kr
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage …
Love's Subtle Magic
An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
E-bok, 2016
637 kr
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage …
Love's Subtle Magic
An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545
Inbunden, 2012
2441 kr
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. This encounter began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India would be established at the end of the 12th century. This powerful kingdom, the Sultanate of Delhi, …
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Myths of Self-Imitation
Inbunden, 2004
1598 kr
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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually …
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Myths of Self-Imitation
Häftad, 2006
673 kr
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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually …
Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Myths of Self-Imitation
E-bok, 2004
1012 kr
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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually …
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
Av Christian Wedemeyer, Wendy Doniger
Inbunden, 2010
1170 kr
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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the …
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
Av Christian Wedemeyer, Wendy Doniger m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
684 kr
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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the …
Pluralism and Democracy in India
Debating the Hindu Right
Av DONIGER, Wendy Doniger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2673 kr
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Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been …
Pluralism and Democracy in India
Debating the Hindu Right
Av Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum
Häftad, 2015
675 kr
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Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been …
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
Inbunden, 2022
1533 kr
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After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to …
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
Häftad, 2022
293 kr
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After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to …
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
E-bok, 2022
244 kr
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After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to …
After the War
The Last Books of the Mahabharata
E-bok, 2022
244 kr
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After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to …
On Hinduism
E-bok, 2014
514 kr
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In this magisterial volume of essays , Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism …
