wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Dreadful Conversions: The Making of a Catholic Socialist
ISBN: 9780823222568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than 50 years, John Cort has been at the center of most of the social movements of our time. Writer, reporter, teacher, activist, Cort has spent his life fighting good fights, whether on a Boston newspaper, with the Peace Corps in the Philippines, as a labor leader, or in dozens of campaigns for justice, peace and human rights. Here is John Cort's story--the measure of an exemplary life and a vivid, personal chronicle of American radicalism across virtually every major struggle. At its heart, this is also the story of what it means to take seriously the distinctively radical Catholic...
For more than 50 years, John Cort has been at the center of most of the social movements of our time. Writer, reporter, teacher, activist, Cort has sp...
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236,55 zł |
Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History
ISBN: 9780195385021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these narratives portray icons favorably, and so justify their existence; but there are also narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain communities that see the existence of temple icons as a sign of decay and corruption. The veneration of Jina icons is one of the most widespread of all Jain ritual practices. Nearly every Jain community in India...
John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are...
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225,37 zł |
Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
ISBN: 9780199796649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religious world of Jain laity. It will serve for some time as a paradigmatic monograph for future empirical studies of Jain religious life." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "Jains in the World is a significant and welcome ethnography of contemporary Jains in western India by the most prominent scholar of Jainism in North America. This book is a must for scholars of South Asian religions and will provide...
"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religi...
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200,48 zł |
Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
ISBN: 9780195132342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religious world of Jain laity. It will serve for some time as a paradigmatic monograph for future empirical studies of Jain religious life." --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "Jains in the World is a significant and welcome ethnography of contemporary Jains in western India by the most prominent scholar of Jainism in North America. This book is a must for scholars of South Asian religions and will provide...
"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religi...
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728,43 zł |
Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History
ISBN: 9780791437858 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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399,90 zł |
Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History
ISBN: 9780791437865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Enlarges our understanding of Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions, by challenging the standard scholarly portraits of both Jains and South Asian religion and culture.
Enlarges our understanding of Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions, by challenging the standard scholarly p...
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141,16 zł |
Christian Socialism: An Informal History
ISBN: 9781626983557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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198,92 zł |
Puja and Piety: Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Art from the Indian Subcontinent
ISBN: 9780520288478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Puja and Piety celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression and the devotional practice, or puja, in the three native religions of the Indian subcontinent. This stunning and authoritative catalogue presents some 150 objects created over the past two millennia for temples, home worship, festivals, and roadside shrines. From monumental painted temple hangings and painted meditation diagrams to portable pictures for pilgrims, from stone sculptures to processional bronzes and wooden chariots, from...
Puja and Piety celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expressi...
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392,88 zł |
Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism
ISBN: 9789004297463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 1026 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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1424,31 zł |