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Religion of Reason
Out of the Sources of Judaism
Av Hermann Cohen, Kenneth Seeskin m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
903 kr
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Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason, Out of the Sources of Judaism (first published in 1919) is widely taken to be the greatest work in Jewish philosophy and religious thought since Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed. It is at once a Jewish book and a philosophical one: Jewish because it takes its …
Damascius' Problems and Solutions Regarding First Principles
Inbunden, 2010
3177 kr
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Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, …
The History of the Buddha's Relic Shrine
A Translation of the Sinhala Thūpavaṃsa
Inbunden, 2007
706 kr
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Buddhist chronicles have long been a subject of central importance in the study of Buddhism. But while scholars have acknowledged the importance of Theravada chronicles for reconstructing the history of Buddhism and South Asia, they have relied almost exclusively on Pali works such as the Mahavamsa …
The Secret Garland
Antal's Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli
Inbunden, 2010
1451 kr
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This book offers new translations of the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli, composed by the ninth-century Tamil mystic and poetess Kotai. Two of the most significant compositions by a female mystic, the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli give expression to her powerful experiences through the use of a …
The Secret Garland
Antal's Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli
Häftad, 2010
1029 kr
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This book offers new translations of the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli, composed by the ninth-century Tamil mystic and poetess Kotai. Two of the most significant compositions by a female mystic, the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli give expression to her powerful experiences through the use of a …
From Mother to Son
The Selected Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin
Av Mary Dunn
Inbunden, 2014
1894 kr
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Marie de l'Incarnation (1599 - 1672), renowned French mystic and founder of the Ursulines in Canada, abandoned her son, Claude Martin, when he was a mere eleven years old to dedicate herself completely to a consecrated religious life. In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at …
The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya
Three Hagiographies
Inbunden, 2012
1535 kr
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Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative …
The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya
Three Hagiographies
Häftad, 2012
392 kr
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Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative …
The Transmission of Sin
Augustine and the Pre-Augustinian Sources
Inbunden, 2013
2077 kr
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Originally published in Italian in 1978, The Transmission of Sin is a study of the origins of the doctrine of original sin, one of the most important teachings of the Catholic Church. While the doctrine has a basis in biblical sources, it found its classic expression in the work of St. Augustine. …
Prelude to the Modernist Crisis
The Firmin Articles of Alfred Loisy
Av Alfred Loisy, Charles Talar
Inbunden, 2010
1646 kr
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Alfred Firmin Loisy (1857-1940) was a French theologian, biblical scholar, and Roman Catholic priest. Loisy's six articles appearing in the Revue de clerge francais from 1898 to 1900 (under the name "A. Firmin") represent one of the earliest modernist attempts to develop a history of Christianity. …
Debating the Dasam Granth
Inbunden, 2011
2123 kr
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The Dasam Granth is a 1,428-page anthology of diverse compositions attributed to the tenth Guru of Sikhism, Guru Gobind Singh, and a topic of great controversy among Sikhs. The controversy stems from two major issues: a substantial portion of the Dasam Granth relates tales from Hindu mythology, …
The Ubiquitous Siva
Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Tantric Interlocutors
Av John Nemec
Inbunden, 2011
1646 kr
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John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijña or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated …
The Ubiquitous Siva
Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Tantric Interlocutors
Av John Nemec
Häftad, 2011
1351 kr
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John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijña or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated …
The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon
Av Ronney Mourad, Dianne Guenin-Lelle
Inbunden, 2012
1151 kr
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Ronney Mourad and Dianne Guenin-Lelle provide here the first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon was a fascinating figure in the court of Louis XIV and, although she was marginalized and ignored …
Place and Dialectic
Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro
Av John W. M. Krummel, Shigenori Nagatomo
Inbunden, 2012
2215 kr
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This book presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into English for the first time by John Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo. Nishida is widely regarded as one of the father figures of modern Japanese philosophy and as the founder of the first distinctly Japanese school of philosophy, the …
Disorienting Dharma
Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata
Inbunden, 2013
2599 kr
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This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata. This text, which is widely acknowledged to be …
Disorienting Dharma
Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata
Häftad, 2013
1074 kr
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This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata. This text, which is widely acknowledged to be …
Dialectic: A Study Edition of the 1811 Notes
Av Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
Häftad, 1996
816 kr
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This is the first English translation of Schleiermacher's Dialectic, the first of his eight forays into the foundations of thinking that aims at knowing. This text, representing Schleiermacher's succinct preparatory notes for his 1811 lectures, offers a remarkably apt introduction to his thought at …
Explaining Religion
Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud
Häftad, 1996
1188 kr
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J. Samuel Preus traces the development and articulation of a modern "naturalistic" approach to the study of religion by examining ideas about the origin of religion in the works of nine western thinkers: Jean Bodin, Herbert of Cherbury, Bernard Fontenelle, Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Auguste …
The Study of Stolen Love
Av David C. Buck, K. Paramasivam
Häftad, 1997
991 kr
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This is the first complete English translation of an important work of Tamil poetics. Composed in southern India around the eighth century CE, this is a commentary structured around 60 verses of uncertain origin on the poetry of love. The commentary also includes hundreds of illustrative poems …
Between Hegel and Kierkegaard
Hans L. Martensen's Philosophy of Religion
Häftad, 1997
831 kr
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In the late 1830s and early 1840s Hans. L. Martensen (1808-1884) helped to introduce the thought of G.W.F. Hegel to the intellectual world of Copenhagen. Between Hegel and Kierkegaard offers the first English translations of three important early writings of Martensen in the philsophy of religion. …
Language, Truth, and Religious Belief
Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion
Av Nancy K. Frankenberry, Hans H. Penner
Häftad, 1999
1041 kr
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Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both …
The Antichrist Legend
A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore
Av W. Bousset
Häftad, 1999
406 kr
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Wilhelm Bousset (1865-1920) was one of the pioneers in the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule or "History of Religions School," which established the scientific and comparative study of Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity a century ago. The Antichrist Legend, first published in German in 1895 …
On the Glaubenslehre
Two Letters to Dr. Lücke
Av Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
Häftad, 1981
915 kr
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On the Glaubenslehre: Two Letters to Dr. Lücke represents Friedrich Schleiermacher's apologia for his dogmatic theology. The first edition of his The Christian Faith had sold out within a few years after its publication in 1821-22. Rather than clutter a new edition with defenses and refutation, …
Durkheim on Religion
Av Émile Durkheim, W. S. F. Pickering
Häftad, 1994
357 kr
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This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of Émile Durkheim's writings on religion. Besides helping to establish the discipline of sociology in France, Dukrheim is widely recognized as one of the founding figures in the modern study of religion. Included are important sections of The …
