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Images in Asian Religions: Text and Contexts
ISBN: 9780774809498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize the centrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Little attention has been paid, however, to the arguments against such image worship in these religious traditions. This volume offers a comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, and examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied. Bringing together anthropologists, art historians, and scholars of religion with interests in India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, Images in Asian... The study of images in Asian religions has tended to emphasize the centrality of image worship in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Little attention has ... |
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Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions
ISBN: 9789004229464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddhists in Tibet, India, China or Japan, what Jains, Daoists, Hindus or Sikhs considered to be a "sin" was neither one thing, nor exactly what the Abrahamic traditions meant by the term. "Sins"could be both undesireable behavior and unacceptable thoughts. In different contexts, at different times and places, a sin might be a ritual infraction or a violation of a rule of law; it could be a moral failing or a wrong belief. However defined, sins...
Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with sins" and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddh...
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The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden: An Anthology of Medieval Jain Stories
ISBN: 9780140455236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of India's great religious traditions
Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit, the stories in this volume reflect the vital tradition of Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries. Some of their characters find bliss by renouncing the world, others by living within it in peace and moderation. There are stories depicting the painful consequences of a loved one's becoming a monk and the triumph of Jain women who win their husbands over to their religion. The climactic story follows an unsuspecting... Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of India's great religious traditions
Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit... |
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82,64 zł |
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780774810388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect. Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they... This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography i... |
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492,27 zł |
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780774810395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography in Asia. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and explore issues from the classical and medieval periods to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect. Contributors explore the fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they... This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians on the subject of sacred place and sacred biography i... |
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The Journey: Stories by K. C. Dasvolume 48
ISBN: 9780891480815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, where he was born in 1924. A civil servant by profession, Das pursued a second career as a writer of stories, poems, and essays.
The stories in this collection take place in an urban setting. The characters are mainly middle class, making them more accessible to North American readers than other examples of contemporary Indian fiction. These are not simple stories. They are about "divides," about gaps between realities and imagination. In... K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, w...
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124,78 zł |