Hermeneutics – serie
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Iliad, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the Work of Religion
Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification
Häftad, 1994
606 kr
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One often reads that literature works to construct worlds of meaning. This book argues that the Iliad and the Rāmāyana did not construct worlds so much as address them. It argues further that the worlds the Iliad and the Rāmāyana addressed were worlds in which words did not mean so much as …
Birth of God
The Bible and the Historian
Av Jean Bottéro
Inbunden, 2001
820 kr
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For many people today, the Hebrew Bible is the one supreme channel through which the Word of God was transmitted to humanity. In The Birth of God, Jean Bottéro, one of the world’s leading figures in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, approaches the Bible from a different perspective. He sees in it an …
Birth of God
The Bible and the Historian
Av Jean Bottéro
Häftad, 2001
440 kr
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For many people today, the Hebrew Bible is the one supreme channel through which the Word of God was transmitted to humanity. In The Birth of God, Jean Bottéro, one of the world’s leading figures in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, approaches the Bible from a different perspective. He sees in it an …
Island Broken in Two Halves
Land and Renewal Movements Among the Maori of New Zealand
Häftad, 1999
476 kr
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Why should anyone outside New Zealand be interested in Maori history? Because it is rich in documents that recapitulate five hundred years of European imperial expansion and the responses to it by indigenous peoples. British humanitarians tried to avoid in New Zealand the tragic mistakes the Crown …
Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedānta
A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason
Häftad, 1995
527 kr
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Philosophy of religion, as we know it today, emerged in the West and has been shaped by Western philosophical and theological trends, while the philosophical tradition of India flowed along its own course until the late nineteenth century, when active, if tentative, contact was established between …
Politics and Transcendent Wisdom
The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism
Häftad, 1998
601 kr
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Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between politics and religion in a variety of contexts. This book examines the formation of "national protection" Buddhism in China and translates the key text of this important movement. …
Mysticism
Experience, Response, and Empowerment
Häftad, 1996
711 kr
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This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely …
Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde
Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
Häftad, 1994
682 kr
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This book is the first substantial study of Islamization in any part of Inner Asia from any perspective and the first to emphasize conversion narratives as important sources for understanding the dynamics of Islamization. Challenging the prevailing notions of the nature of Islam in Inner Asia, it …
