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Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality
ISBN: 9780415921862 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carol P. Christ brings together her personal experience and expertise to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles, practices and beliefs that have shaped feminist spirituality. Drawing from the fields of history, art, literature and philosophy, among others, she demonstrates the effects of worshipping the goddess, and how it challenges our most basic assumptions. The book is both a historical essay and a testament of the possibilities for change and self-fulfilment.
Carol P. Christ brings together her personal experience and expertise to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles, practices and beliefs that h...
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191,50 zł |
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Acts of Religion
ISBN: 9780415924016 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acts of Religion, complied in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The esssays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas and Gershom Schloem, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes two essays by Derrida that appear here for the first time in any language, as well as a substantial introduction by Gil Anidjar that explores Derrida's return to his...
Acts of Religion, complied in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of fait...
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207,03 zł |
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Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse
ISBN: 9780415928885 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the view that the study of global religions is being transformed by its engagement with feminist and postcolonial thought, the editors of Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse argue that gender, religion, and colonial conquest are inseparable. Drawing from a range of materials, including religious texts, women's literature, field interviews, historical archives, critical theories, and rap music, this volume offers important critiques of the way religious and feminist knowledge is constructed. The contributors examine white feminist theology's misappropriations of Native North...
From the view that the study of global religions is being transformed by its engagement with feminist and postcolonial thought, the editors of Postcol...
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196,68 zł |
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Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays
ISBN: 9780415928922 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam.
These fifteen original essays focus on unfamiliar texts that reflect the wide range of medieval Christianity's preoccupation with Islam.
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305,39 zł |
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Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415937771 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture.
In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its co...
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196,68 zł |
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The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists
ISBN: 9780415939638 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.
The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.
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196,68 zł |
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Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN: 9780415941280 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The common goal of the contributors is to illuminate sexuality as a crucial site of conflict and dissent both within and between religious traditions. Thus, we have a collection of ten essays on themes emerging from the social scientific study of religion and sexuality in an array of cultural contexts. Together the essays examine four themes: fecundism as an ideology of reproduction; sexual identity and the life cycle; binary sexual categories; and relations of power and domination.
The common goal of the contributors is to illuminate sexuality as a crucial site of conflict and dissent both within and between religious traditions....
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196,68 zł |
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This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment
ISBN: 9780415943598 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.
Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environ...
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647,13 zł |
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This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment
ISBN: 9780415943604 / Angielski / Miękka / 762 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.
Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environ...
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248,44 zł |
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Cyberhenge : Modern Pagans on the Internet
ISBN: 9780415969109 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how Neo-pagans are using the Net to provide information and to develop their experience from e-covens and cyber-groves.
This book examines how Neo-pagans are using the Net to provide information and to develop their experience from e-covens and cyber-groves.
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698,90 zł |
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Cyberhenge : Modern Pagans on the Internet
ISBN: 9780415969116 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cyberhenge, Douglas E. Cowan brings together two fascinating and virually unavoidable phenomena of the postmodern world - the electronic environment of the Internet and the emerging world of contemporary Neopaganism - Wiccans and other witches, Druids, Goddess-worshipers and ceremonial magicians - the Internet provides an environment alive with possibilities for invention, innovation and imagination. Neopagans are not only using the Net to provide information and as a vehicle to develop and expand the frontiers of their religious experience. From online Sabbath rituals to an algorithmic I...
In Cyberhenge, Douglas E. Cowan brings together two fascinating and virually unavoidable phenomena of the postmodern world - the electronic environmen...
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191,50 zł |
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Ritual and Religious Belief: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415974486 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is ritual's relation to belief? to performance? Does ritual have its own logic?
Ritual and Religious Belief is a reader that brings together material exploring the problem of ritual from many perspectives. Selections from the sixteenth century to the present explore the idea of ritual as a type of religious behavior, ritual in relation to belief and thought, and ritual as "vain repetition." This anthology considers many perspectives, enabling the student and scholar to consider the richness of the questions surrounding the concept of ritual. What is ritual's relation to belief? to performance? Does ritual have its own logic?
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129,37 zł |
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The Secret Revealed: Exposing the Truth About the Law of Attraction
ISBN: 9780446197960 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors illuminate errors and dangers in Rhonda Byrnes work "The Secret." Instead of self-help promises, they offer readers centuries-old principles from a biblical perspective on the real secret to success--the truth of Gods love and divine providence.
The authors illuminate errors and dangers in Rhonda Byrnes work "The Secret." Instead of self-help promises, they offer readers centuries-old principl...
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96,75 zł |
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The Christian and the Pharisee: Two Outspoken Religious Leaders Debate the Road to Heaven
ISBN: 9780446697347 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book reproduces a candid exchange of letters between two leading religious figures an evangelical preacher and a senior Jewish rabbi. This groundbreaking publication is a rare opportunity to read the heartfelt correspondence of two prolific and acclaimed theologians, as they both seek to vigorously defend their own beliefs and allow themselves to be challenged by the claims of the other. As the discussion continues we see mutual respect grow and a strong friendship forged before the relationship is inevitably tested as they encounter points of seemingly irreconcilable...
The book reproduces a candid exchange of letters between two leading religious figures an evangelical preacher and a senior Jewish rabbi. Th...
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87,95 zł |
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Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind
ISBN: 9780471392163 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior""Deceptively simple. Its power is rooted not only in Dr. Walsh's formidable intellectual capacity to deal effectively with a vast body of religious literature but in his own deep spiritual practices in a multitude of disciplines over many years. An important contribution.""-Ram Dass, author, Be Here Now ""An absolute masterpiece . . . Essential Spirituality is helpful to both the unseasoned and seasoned seeker....
Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and...
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96,75 zł |
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
ISBN: 9780486273488 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against the injurious, and its twin characteristics of dark tragedy and grim humor, tinge much European literature and music, most notably Wagner's Ring Cycle.
In this volume, a noted scholar of myth and folklore has assembled a rich collection of Northern mythology as preserved in the Eddas and sagas of Iceland. These are perhaps the purest versions of the original myths, thanks to the island's... Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual s...
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65,77 zł |
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The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul
ISBN: 9780500810057 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the inward-winding labyrinth, it constitutes the hero s journey to the still center where the secret of life is found. As the spherical vortex, spiraling through its own center, it combines the inward and outward directions of movement. In this original and engrossing book, Jill Purce traces the significance of one man s central symbols from the double spirals of Stone Age art and the interlocking spirals of the Chinese Yin Yang symbol to the whorls of Celtic crosses, Maori tattoos and the Islamic arabesque. Many of the superb images here were intended as objects of contemplation; for the...
As the inward-winding labyrinth, it constitutes the hero s journey to the still center where the secret of life is found. As the spherical vortex, spi...
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66,30 zł |
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Angels A to Z: A Who's Who of the Heavenly Host
ISBN: 9780517885376 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amid the veritable choirs of popular angel books, this is the only one that offers factual information on every facet of angel lore. Here at last is a detailed reference for anyone who wants to finally get the straight dope on all aspects of angel arcana. 40 photos.
Amid the veritable choirs of popular angel books, this is the only one that offers factual information on every facet of angel lore. Here at last is a...
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83,59 zł |
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The Religions of the American Indians: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780520042391 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the complex indigenous religions of the Americas, both North and South, as they were in the past and as they still exist in some societies.
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the complex indigenous religions of the Americas, both North and South, as they were in the past and as t...
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203,09 zł |
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Sainthood: Its Manifestations in World Religions
ISBN: 9780520071896 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has been taken over and applied to similar figures in other traditions. The essays in this volume analyze the role of the saint in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, providing both a comparative and an interpretive view of sainthood. The notion of sainthood is...
Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the o...
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215,41 zł |
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