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The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration: Dagara White Bagr
ISBN: 9789052018669 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout history, oral cultures lacking the medium of writing have relied on secret cults and societies to keep the authoritative versions of their sacred compositions, originally passed on to them as myths of divine origins, alive and remembered.
In this book, the author, after many years spent observing secret rites, presents different versions of the White Bagr mythical narrative, following the ritual calendar. These rites, which are found among the Dagara/Lobi societies in West Africa, form a crucial part of the year-long rites of initiation of selected neophytes into... Throughout history, oral cultures lacking the medium of writing have relied on secret cults and societies to keep the authoritative versions of their ...
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306,88 |
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Oracle of Divination: The Mythology of Yoruva Religion
ISBN: 9781477159330 / Wielojęzykowe / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,63 |
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Oracle of Divination: The Mythology of Yoruva Religion
ISBN: 9781477159323 / Wielojęzykowe / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,78 |
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Serving the Spirits: The Religion of Haitian Vodou
ISBN: 9781480086425 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A healing and balanced faith, Haitian Vodou is a member of the African Traditional Religions that came into the Western Hemisphere via the Transatlantic slave trade. Despite a much misunderstood image, Vodou gives its practitioners the tools to understand the world around them. By participating in an annual calendar of observances, rituals and services, servitors can engage with the Vodou "Mysteries," thereby enlisting their aid in helping lead a balanced life. Manbo Vye Zo uses her own story of becoming manbo or mother of the spirits as a stepping stone for her students and godchildren so...
A healing and balanced faith, Haitian Vodou is a member of the African Traditional Religions that came into the Western Hemisphere via the Transatlant...
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99,57 |
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Was Ist Religion?: Beitraege Zur Religionsforschung - Edmund Weber Zum 70. Geburtstag
ISBN: 9783631609309 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was ist Religion? greift den Titel eines Kolloquiums auf, welches Edmund Weber 2008 an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main zur kritischen Betrachtung religionstheoretischer Ansatze sowie moderner und traditioneller Glaubenskulturen durchgefuhrt hat. Zu Ehren seines 70. Geburtstages setzen sich Schuler und Kollegen mit dieser Frage vor dem Hintergrund ihrer jeweiligen Forschungs- und Tatigkeitsbereiche auseinander. Die Beitrage beleuchten das Phanomen -Religion- von verschiedenen Seiten und zeigen so seine Vielfaltigkeit auf: als zu vermittelndes Wissen, Ritual,...
Was ist Religion? greift den Titel eines Kolloquiums auf, welches Edmund Weber 2008 an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main...
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378,40 |
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Religion in Korea: Harmony and Coexistence
ISBN: 9788997639052 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book surveys the rich religious and spiritual tapestry that is contemporary Korea. We begin with the earliest of Korean faiths--the shamanism that prehistoric Koreans brought with them as they migrated to the peninsula from Central Asia--and continue on to today's most prominent faiths: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism. Korea has given birth to a large number of indigenous faiths, and the work examines these as well.
This book surveys the rich religious and spiritual tapestry that is contemporary Korea. We begin with the earliest of Korean faiths--the shamanism tha...
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67,96 |
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Old Norse Religion, A Family Tradition: The Skergard Handbook
ISBN: 9781481185516 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 300+ page volume contains valuable, previously unreleased knowledge of the religion commonly known as Asatru. It contains: the Poetic Edda including Hrafngaldr Odins and clearly labeled inspirational prose, afterlife and undeath, a large divination section including Runes, Seidhr and the Language of Birds, comprehensive glossary of the Gods and Goddesses along with Asatru religious words and terms, complete list of holidays, rituals, ceremonies, blessings and prayers, full-color chart on the back cover may be used for cross reference as needed, a new way to view the World-Tree Yggdrasil,...
This 300+ page volume contains valuable, previously unreleased knowledge of the religion commonly known as Asatru. It contains: the Poetic Edda includ...
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95,78 |
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Bandamanna Saga: Translations and Icelandic Text
ISBN: 9781481232913 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uspak asks to live with Odd; Odd agrees because of Uspak's connections even though he is aware of the man's bad reputation. Things go well until Odd wants to take a trip to go trading. He has to talk Uspak into becoming his steward and priest, although Uspak actually wants to do those things. While Odd is away, Uspak woos a rich woman named Swala and moves to her lands after a falling-out with Odd over the priesthood after Odd comes home. Odd tries to bring Uspak to trial but makes a legal mistake and fails. Going home disappointed, Odd meets his father, who promises to take on the case if...
Uspak asks to live with Odd; Odd agrees because of Uspak's connections even though he is aware of the man's bad reputation. Things go well until Odd w...
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71,84 |
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Brennu-Njals Saga: Translation and Icelandic Text
ISBN: 9781481233408 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his home he is struck by the beauty of the land and resolves to stay; this quickly leads to his death. Some years later, Njal is burned alive in his home as a part of a cycle of killing and vengeance."
In the course of a feud, Gunnarr is exiled and must leave Iceland but as he rides away from his home he is struck by the beauty of the land and resolv...
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175,60 |
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Mythical Narratives in Ritual: Dagara Black Bagr
ISBN: 9789052012872 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, the author presents a version of Africa s longest oral recitation of myth of origination, the black bagr myth found among the Dagara of Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso, and discusses in detail its historical and literary significance for the society. Hence, the author first outlines the historical conditions possibly responsible for the coming into existence of both the mythical narratives and the rites of initiation that accompany the narration; and then presents the literary frame and structure in which the black bagr narrative is composed.
The... In this volume, the author presents a version of Africa s longest oral recitation of myth of origination, the black bagr myth found among the D...
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306,88 |
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Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Tradition
ISBN: 9780739173619 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haitian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haiti's post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression....
Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the h...
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393,49 |
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Cuentos Negros de Cuba
ISBN: 9780897296717 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. En esta obra Lydia Cabrera, transcribe y colecciona por puro deleite el conjunto de leyendas negras de La Habana. Se trata de Cuentos afrocubanos, que aunque estan cundidos'de fantasia y ofrecen entre sus protagonistas algunos personajes del panteon yoruba, como Obaogo, Oshun, Ochosi, etc., no son unicamente religiosos. La mayoria entran en la categoria de fabulas de animales. Otros son de personajes humanos en los cuales la mitologia entra secundariamente. En varios de ellos se descubren supervivencias totemicas, como cuando se cita el Hombre-tigre, el Hombre-Toro. Papa-Jicotea, etc. Otro...
En esta obra Lydia Cabrera, transcribe y colecciona por puro deleite el conjunto de leyendas negras de La Habana. Se trata de Cuentos afrocubanos, que...
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84,93 |
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Exu: Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
ISBN: 9780957449206 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,27 |
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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison
ISBN: 9780226047614 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Dante sInferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and inWitchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere masterfully sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its variety of forms throughout the globe, he shows how this often misunderstood practice is deeply structured by intimacy and the powers it affords. In...
In Dante sInferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatu...
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127,84 |
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Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes: Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond
ISBN: 9780761861485 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines alleged "superhuman" powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and in stratified but negotiable relationships with their rural patron families. Many of them now also work for new customers in an expanding market economy, which is still characterized by personal, face-to-face...
This book examines alleged "superhuman" powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and s...
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320,62 |
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Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts
ISBN: 9781908049582 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and Western-based environmentalism. In response to that, and by adhering to post-modern discourses on, for instance, indigeneity, mimicry and hybridity, the volume explores South Asian cultural manifestations and aspects of localised knowledge in relation to the construction and the Otherisation of the concept of body and behaviour in non-human animals. The study of non-human animals as other-than-human persons (actual animals, but also...
Discussions on non-human animals, other-than-human persons and religion originally emerged within the context of Christian theology, eco-theology and ...
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505,53 |
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Songs of the Gods: The Ainu Legends of Chiri Yukie
ISBN: 9780992600600 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the vanishing cultures of the world, the Ainu of north-east Asia stand out for the startling richness of their oral literature. These thirteen beautiful Ainu chants were collected by Chiri Yukie in 1922 -- the first Ainu literature to be written down by an Ainu. This book presents new English translations of Chiri's remarkable work. Originally written in "yukar" form, a type of chant used by female storytellers among the Ainu villages of Hokkaido, these stories tell of the relationship between mankind and the world of spirits. Each "yukar" is narrated by a spirit -- fox, whale,... Among the vanishing cultures of the world, the Ainu of north-east Asia stand out for the startling richness of their oral literature. These thir... |
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21,47 |
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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
ISBN: 9780140194968 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born under the shadow of French colonial rule in Upper Volta, West Africa, the author was taken from his tribe and virtually imprisoned by a Jesuit priest in a seminary. He lived there for 15 years, abused and intimidated into forgetting his tribal past and accepting the white man's god and religion.
Born under the shadow of French colonial rule in Upper Volta, West Africa, the author was taken from his tribe and virtually imprisoned by a Jesuit pr...
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75,44 |
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The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and the Western Imagination
ISBN: 9780195172317 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. The Beauty of the Primitive explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the eighteenth-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western...
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism...
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356,07 |
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Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199584529 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centers and many outposts of the world. Most believers worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930-1974), as God incarnate. They often embrace the spiritual use of cannabis and reject western society, called Babylon. Believers proclaim Africa (also "Zion") as the original birthplace of mankind, and...
From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 70...
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49,37 |
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