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22 produkter
Conceiving the Mother of Tibet
The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel
Av Jue Liang
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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Conceiving the Mother of Tibet is the first comprehensive study dedicated to the literary tradition surrounding Yeshe Tsogyel, revered as the foremost matron saint of Tibetan Buddhism. It traces the emergence and development of a rich body of narratives about Yeshe Tsogyel during the fourteenth and …
Missionary Calculus
Americans in the Making of Sunday Schools in Victorian India
Inbunden, 2019
1469 kr
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How are religious educational institutions built? In histories of evangelical institution-building in the Victorian Indian colonial period (1858-1901), this question has mostly been addressed from the perspective of the religious ends that Christian missionaries sought to achieve and the …
Muslims beyond the Arab World
The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya
Av Fallou Ngom
Inbunden, 2016
2627 kr
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Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the tradition of writing African languages using the Arabic script 'Ajami and the rise of the Muridiyya order of Islamic Sufi in Senegal, founded by Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853-1927). The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary …
Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey
Inbunden, 2017
1896 kr
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The sway of Islam in political life is an unavoidable topic of debate in Turkey today. Secularists, Islamists, and liberals alike understand the Turkish state to be the primary arbiter of Islam's place in Turkey--as the coup attempt of July 2016 and its aftermath have dramatically illustrated. Yet …
Latino and Muslim in America
Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority
Inbunden, 2018
821 kr
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Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the U.S.A. The U.S. is currently poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities will outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role in this …
The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess
Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change
Inbunden, 2020
1433 kr
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Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing encounters with local and far from local …
Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking
Av Mark Porter
Inbunden, 2020
1390 kr
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Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking^ Rexplores a diverse range of Christian musical activity through the conceptual lens of resonance, a concept rooted in the physical, vibrational, and sonic realm that carries with it an expansive ability to simultaneously describe personal, social, and …
Global Tantra
Inbunden, 2022
1677 kr
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Tantra has formed an integral part of Asian religious history for centuries, but since "Arthur Avalon" introduced the concept to a global readership in the early twentieth century, Tantric traditions have exploded in popularity. While it was long believed that Sir John Woodroffe stood behind …
World of Worldly Gods
The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan
Inbunden, 2023
844 kr
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In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi …
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural
Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory
Inbunden, 2024
1285 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.All societies fill the geographical space in which they are living with the holy, …
Palestinian Evangelicals and Global Evangelicalism
An Ethnography of Unequal Encounter
Av Lena Rose
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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Given the theological significance of the state of Israel for many evangelicals worldwide, the existence of a population of Palestinian evangelicals seems counterintuitive at first. This small population shares with global evangelicals many common markers of evangelicalism, but due to their …
As We Love and Fear a Father
Shani, Devotional Religion, and Neoliberalism in Urban North India
Inbunden, 2027
1019 kr
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India's embrace of global markets, a process that began in the early 1990's, ushered in seismic shifts in its economy as well as pervasive environmental pollution. Concomitant with these changes has been a rise in the popularity of Shani, the Hindu planetary deity traditionally associated with …
The Gods Are Wise
Yorùbá Sacred Orature and Environmental Sustainability
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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This book does not suggest the "ultimate solution" to global environmental problems or even imply that there is only one way of protecting the environment. Instead, Olúwábùnmi Tope Bernard presents a previously untapped exploration of the resources within the Yorùbá Òrìsà worship, sacred orature, …
Prophetic Medicine
Popular Cultures of Healing and Hearing in Medieval Islam
Av Aydogan Kars
Inbunden, 2026
1205 kr
Kommande
Prophetic medicine is a large body of literature on medical sciences and religious teachings penned by Muslim scholars since the early ninth century. Prophetic medicine has become vastly popular, and today it plays a contested yet significant role in the global markets of alternative …
Little Buddhas
Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions
Inbunden, 2012
2884 kr
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Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. This collection is intended to open the question of children in Buddhism. It brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what …
Muslims and Others in Sacred Space
Inbunden, 2013
2169 kr
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This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in sacred times and spaces. The volume begins with a …
Muslims and Others in Sacred Space
Häftad, 2013
732 kr
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This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in sacred times and spaces. The volume begins with a …
Real Sadhus Sing to God
Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan
Av Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli
Inbunden, 2014
2856 kr
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In this groundbreaking book, based on in-depth ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli brings to light the little known, and often marginalized, lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Her book offers a new perspective on the …
Real Sadhus Sing to God
Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan
Av Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli
Häftad, 2014
862 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. …
Little Buddhas
Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts and Traditions
Av Vanessa R. Sasson, Vanessa R. Sasson
Häftad, 2012
976 kr
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Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. This collection is intended to open the question of children in Buddhism. It brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what …
Hindu Christian Faqir
Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood
Inbunden, 2015
2444 kr
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Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian saints from Punjab, the neo-Vedantin Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Christian convert Sundar Singh (1889-1929). Timothy S. Dobe shows that varied asceticisms, personal exemplary models, and material religion exuded their ambivalent and …
Hindu Christian Faqir
Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood
Häftad, 2015
715 kr
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Hindu Christian Faqir compares two colonial Indian saints from Punjab, the neo-Vedantin Hindu Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) and the Christian convert Sundar Singh (1889-1929). Timothy S. Dobe shows that varied asceticisms, personal exemplary models, and material religion exuded their ambivalent and …
