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The Religious Culture of India
Power, Love and Wisdom
Av Friedhelm Hardy, John Clayton m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
830 kr
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This study conducts a lively and innovative exploration of the traditional Indian religions and cultures - an area that has both fascinated and puzzled the West for centuries. Friedhelm Hardy aims at presenting the widest possible range of themes that have preoccupied traditional Indian culture. He …
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition
Häftad, 2007
813 kr
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This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada …
The Body Divine
The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Ramanuja
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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The Body Divine explores the ways in which two spiritual teachers, one Christian (Teilhard de Chardin) and one Hindu (Ramanuja) have seen the world as inherently divine, and have presented this insight theologically through the use of a symbol, that of the 'body of the divine' (the body of …
Religion and the Individual
A Jewish Perspective
Av Louis Jacobs
Häftad, 2008
536 kr
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The aim of this study is to demonstrate that, for all the admitted emphasis on peoplehood in the Jewish religious tradition, there are equally strong individualistic tendencies within Judaism which should not be confined to the sidelines. Dr Jacobs maintains that - in any balanced view of Judaism - …
The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent
Häftad, 2008
461 kr
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This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak's vision of Transcendent Reality and concludes with the mystical journey of Rani Raj Kaur, the heroine of a modern Punjabi epic. The eight chapters of the book approach the Sikh vision of the …
Women under the Bo Tree
Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2008
732 kr
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Women under the Bo Tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary …
Christian Pluralism in the United States
The Indian Immigrant Experience
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. They are establishing churches with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic rites. This book is a comprehensive study of these Christians, their churches and their adaptation. Professor Williams describes migration …
Religion and the Body
Inbunden, 1997
1349 kr
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This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established …
The Body Divine
The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Ramanuja
Av Anne Hunt Overzee, John Clayton
Inbunden, 1991
1710 kr
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The Body Divine explores the ways in which two spiritual teachers, one Christian (Teilhard de Chardin) and one Hindu (Ramanuja) have seen the world as inherently divine, and have presented this insight theologically through the use of a symbol, that of the 'body of the divine' (the body of …
Religion and the Individual
A Jewish Perspective
Inbunden, 1992
1481 kr
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The aim of this study is to demonstrate that, for all the admitted emphasis on peoplehood in the Jewish religious tradition, there are equally strong individualistic tendencies within Judaism which should not be confined to the sidelines. Dr Jacobs maintains that - in any balanced view of Judaism - …
Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy
Av Oliver Leaman, John Clayton
Häftad, 1997
764 kr
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The problems of evil and suffering have been extensively discussed in Jewish philosophy, and much of the discussion has centred on the Book of Job. In this study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and …
The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent
Av Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, John Clayton
Inbunden, 1993
1726 kr
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This work is a critical analysis of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective. It begins with Guru Nanak's vision of Transcendent Reality and concludes with the mystical journey of Rani Raj Kaur, the heroine of a modern Punjabi epic. The eight chapters of the book approach the Sikh vision of the …
Women under the Bo Tree
Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 1994
1563 kr
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Women under the Bo Tree examines the tradition of female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka. The study is textual, historical and anthropological, and links ancient tradition with contemporary practice. Tessa Bartholomeusz utilizes data based on her field experiences in many contemporary …
Mysticism and Kingship in China
The Heart of Chinese Wisdom
Av Julia Ching, John Clayton m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1351 kr
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In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of …
Mysticism and Kingship in China
The Heart of Chinese Wisdom
Av Julia Ching, John Clayton m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
944 kr
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In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, arguing that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of …
The Dance of Siva
Religion, Art and Poetry in South India
Av David Smith
Inbunden, 1996
1595 kr
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This is a full account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which has become a popular symbol in the West for Hinduism and Eastern Mysticism. Siva is one of the two main gods of Hinduism, and his worshippers comprise half of all Hindus. Siva's Dance of Bliss is based on a remarkable Sanskrit poem written by …
The Dance of Siva
Religion, Art and Poetry in South India
Av David Smith, John Clayton m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
797 kr
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This is a full account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which has become a popular symbol in the West for Hinduism and Eastern Mysticism. Siva is one of the two main gods of Hinduism, and his worshippers comprise half of all Hindus. Siva's Dance of Bliss is based on a remarkable Sanskrit poem written by …
Christian Pluralism in the United States
The Indian Immigrant Experience
Inbunden, 1996
1481 kr
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Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. They are establishing churches with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic rites. This book is a comprehensive study of these Christians, their churches and their adaptation. Professor Williams describes migration …
Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities
Av Steven Collins, John Clayton m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2606 kr
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This book presents an answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part I distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, arguing that nirvana produces closure in both, and setting nirvana in the wider category of Buddhist …
Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities
Av Steven Collins, Steven Collins m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
699 kr
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This book presents an answer to the question: what is nirvana? Part I distinguishes between systematic and narrative thought in the Pali texts of Theravada Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, arguing that nirvana produces closure in both, and setting nirvana in the wider category of Buddhist …
Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition
Inbunden, 1997
1481 kr
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This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada …
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
Av Dale S. Wright, John Clayton m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1628 kr
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This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the 'golden age' of Zen in …
Religion and the Body
Häftad, 2000
667 kr
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This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established …
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
Av Dale S. Wright, John Clayton m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
667 kr
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This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the 'golden age' of Zen in …
