wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market
ISBN: 9780190627690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be analysed as a market similar to markets for other goods and services, like bottled water or haircuts. Faithonomics is about today's religious markets, but in sweeping detours through the histories of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism, Brekke shows us the religious markets of the past, although these were sometimes heavily regulated by states. He argues that...
Faithonomics uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case ...
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169,40 zł |
Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780199252367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book examines religious transformation in South Asia in the 19th century, perhaps the most important period of religious change in the history of the region. By looking at some outstanding individuals from different religions the book sheds light on the questions that lie at the heart of later nationalist discourse: Who is a Hindu? Who is a Buddhist? What is the relationship between the religious communities of South Asia?
This book examines religious transformation in South Asia in the 19th century, perhaps the most important period of religious change in the history of...
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851,32 zł |
Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9780521149792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education, and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership that...
This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, ...
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125,55 zł |
The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415342926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 18 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world. While the chapters are written by specialists in Asian cultures, some of the conceptual apparatus is drawn from the scholarly discourse on just war, developed in the study of the ethical tradition of Christianity. Taking a comparative approach, the book looks at six different Asian religious, philosophical and political... This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about wheth... |
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708,33 zł |
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
ISBN: 9780700716845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why did people in North India in the fifth century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This work applies the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community.
Why did people in North India in the fifth century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This work applies the insights of soc...
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251,80 zł |
The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism
ISBN: 9780198790839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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478,52 zł |
Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9780521766258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education, and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership that...
This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements around the world, ...
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364,19 zł |
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
ISBN: 9780700716838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the i...
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760,80 zł |
The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415544375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about whether there are universal standards in the ideologies of warfare between the major religious traditions of the world. While the chapters are written by specialists in Asian cultures, some of the conceptual apparatus is drawn from the scholarly discourse on just war, developed in the study of the ethical tradition of Christianity. Taking a comparative approach, the book looks at six different Asian religious, philosophical and political... This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about wheth... |
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230,81 zł |
Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia
ISBN: 9781138921894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a peaceful religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of peaceful behavior. This stereotype which may well be termed positive Orientalism, since it is based on assumption that an Oriental religion would be more faithful to its original non-violent teachings than Western Christianity has been periodically challenged by enthusiastic acquiescence... It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a peaceful religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of viole... |
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241,30 zł |