wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000a 1850
ISBN: 9781554583720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The merchants settled there and the community prospered. Over centuries, with government support, the Kaifeng Jews built and rebuilt their synagogue, which became perhaps the world's largest. Some studied for the rabbinate; others prepared for civil service examinations, leading to a disproportionate number of Jewish government officials. While continuing orthodox Jewish practices they added rituals honouring their parents and the patriarchs, in... A thousand years ago, the Chinese government invited merchants from one of the Chinese port synagogue communities to the capital, Kaifeng. The mer... |
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417,99 zł |
Chinese Religion and Familism: The Basis of Chinese Culture, Society, and Government
ISBN: 9781350103610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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412,57 zł |
The Spirits Are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion
ISBN: 9780791423165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Spirits are Drunk presents Chinese religion as a complex, singular construct that is the basis of Chinese culture and civilization from its inception to the present. It focuses on the development and role of ecstatic religious experience and on the importance of the feminine in religious perceptions. Topics include the underlying structure of Chinese religion through the analysis of ritual; interpretations of the ritual decor of protohistoric sacrificial vessels in relation to ecstatic experience; the comparative study of myths and symbols; the development and interrelationships of...
The Spirits are Drunk presents Chinese religion as a complex, singular construct that is the basis of Chinese culture and civilization from its incept...
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146,40 zł |
Through the Earth Darkly: Female Spirituality in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9781474281676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world's religions. It offers an extensive survey of female spiritual roles in a variety of cultures and provides evidence that women have exercised authority and sacred power in a variety of traditional religions.
This book makes a compelling case for male-female religious complementarity in many of the world's religions. It offers an extensive survey of female ...
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567,28 zł |
Chinese Religion and Familism: The Basis of Chinese Culture, Society, and Government
ISBN: 9781350103603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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128,88 zł |
Native North American Religious Traditions: Dancing for Life
ISBN: 9780275990978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Representative Native American religions and rituals are introduced to readers in a way that respects the individual traditions as more than local curiosities or exotic rituals, capturing the flavor of the living, modern traditions, even as commonalities between and among traditions are explored and explained. This general introduction offers wide-ranging coverage of the major factors--geography, history, religious behavior, and religious ideology (theology)--analyzing select traditions that can be dealt with, to varying degrees, on a contemporary basis. As current interest... Representative Native American religions and rituals are introduced to readers in a way that respects the individual traditions as more than local ... |
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244,28 zł |
The Deities Are Many: A Polytheistic Theology
ISBN: 9780791463888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide into this milieu. Paper was drawn to polytheism through his love of nature, seeing it as a source of the divine. In this book he focuses on Chinese and Native American religious traditions, as well as West African, African-Brazilian, Hindu, Polynesian, and circum-Polar traditions, to describe the theology of polytheism. The book provides a topology of polytheistic deities, focusing on the cosmic couple, Father Sky...
The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author ...
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134,52 zł |
The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance
ISBN: 9781498550284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contributors analyze the community's unique synthesis between Jewish and Chinese thought, the tenuous nature of its Jewish identity, and the impact of Western Jewish contact.
This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contrib...
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228,00 zł |
The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng: A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance
ISBN: 9781498550260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contributors analyze the community's unique synthesis between Jewish and Chinese thought, the tenuous nature of its Jewish identity, and the impact of Western Jewish contact.
This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contrib...
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510,28 zł |