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Rule-Extension Strategies in Ancient India: Ritual, Exegetical and Linguistic Considerations on the Tantra- And Prasaṅga-Principles
ISBN: 9783631628720 / Angielski / Twarda / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic and systematic way. These devices presuppose a spatial approach to ritual and language, one which deals for instance with absences as substitutions within a pre-existing grid, and not as temporal disappearances. In this way, the study reveals a key feature of some among the most influential schools of Indian thought.
The sources are Kalpasutra, Vyakara?a and Mima?sa, three textual traditions which developed alongside each other, sharing -... This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an economic...
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279,69 |
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The Science of Love: From the Desire of the Senses to the Intellect of Love
ISBN: 9781931406123 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Science of Love RAPHAEL takes into consideration the human being in its totality as constituted therefore by body, Soul and Spirit, and examines Love as that powerful unifying impulse, which transmits the grace of joy, flooding and involving all it comes into contact with. As DANTE himself said, love ..". moves the sun and the other stars."And Raphael states that: ...the miracle of Love allows growth, redemption and the expansion of consciousness to Universal dimensions.Of special interest is the presentation of the polarities existing not only between idividuals but operating within...
In The Science of Love RAPHAEL takes into consideration the human being in its totality as constituted therefore by body, Soul and Spirit, and examine...
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67,44 |
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Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780199738618 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and religious traditions provided initial engagements with Asian spiritual traditions. Virtual Orientalism shows the evolution of these interactions, from direct engagements with...
Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporar...
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184,89 |
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The Politics of Religion in Indonesia: Syncretism, Orthodoxy, and Religious Contention in Java and Bali
ISBN: 9780415613118 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics. While not being a theocratic country, it is not secular either, with the Indonesian state officially defining what constitutes religion, and every citizen needing to be affiliated to one of them. This book focuses on Java and Bali, and the interesting comparison of two neighbouring societies shaped by two different religions - Islam and Hinduism. The book examines the appropriation by the peoples of Java and Bali of the idea of religion, through a dialogic process of indigenization of universalist religions and... Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics. While not being a theocratic country, it is not secular either, with the Indonesian st... |
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773,33 |
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Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India
ISBN: 9780199755707 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The...
Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an ...
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516,69 |
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Uddhava Gita Explained
ISBN: 9780981933214 / Angielski / Miękka / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This translation and commentary is a deep-read indepth study of the instructions given to Uddhava who questioned Sri Krishna about the perplexities of material existence. In the teaching to Uddhava, Krishna stated that He taught three yogas, namely karma yoga, jnana yoga and bhakti yoga. In the Bhagavad Gita discussion with Arjuna He admited teachng only the first two of these. The complete teachings of Sri Krishna were given to Uddhava. All unanswered questions which Sri Krishna either avoided or answered partially, are fully dealt with in the discourse with Uddhava. For that matter instead...
This translation and commentary is a deep-read indepth study of the instructions given to Uddhava who questioned Sri Krishna about the perplexities of...
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145,46 |
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Guruji: Teachings of a Hindu Saint
ISBN: 9781462009190 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,42 |
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The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India
ISBN: 9780801477324 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between 1500 and 500 B.C.E. a crucial period in the formation of traditional Indian culture. Stephanie W. Jamison here addresses the conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual independently. Tracing two key myths through a variety of texts, Jamison provides insight into the relationship between early Indic myth and ritual as... Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between 1500 and 500 B.C.E. a cru... |
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175,29 |
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Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture
ISBN: 9780813134123 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. In response to growing dissatisfaction with the existing food system, farmers and consumers are creating alternate models of production and consumption that are both sustainable and equitable. In Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture, author A. Whitney Sanford uses the story of the deity Balaram and the Yamuna River as a foundation for...
The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the ...
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156,72 |
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Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780415690652 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity on both sides, until the LTTE were overcome and largely eradicated in 2009. This book provides a contextualised analysis of the effects of war on a small Tamil community living in northern Sri Lanka during the cease-fire period. It examines how the society changed and adapted in order to...
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between ...
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734,66 |
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The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
ISBN: 9780520262805 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular...
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the ...
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410,92 |
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The Powerful Ephemeral: Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
ISBN: 9780520262812 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular...
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the ...
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154,67 |
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Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
ISBN: 9780520268319 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernitythat Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-Westby looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own...
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernitythat Western rule has had a...
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194,85 |
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Well-Mannered Medicine
ISBN: 9780199856268 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the seventh centuries CE, and later works, dating into the sixteenth century CE, are still considered strongly authoritative. As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises for a guide to professional conduct. Ayurvedic discourses on good medical practice depict the physician as...
Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurved...
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528,30 |
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Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda
ISBN: 9780199859962 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the seventh centuries CE, and later works, dating into the sixteenth century CE, are still considered strongly authoritative. As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises for a guide to professional conduct. Ayurvedic discourses on good medical practice depict the physician as...
Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurved...
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242,94 |
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Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry
ISBN: 9781441121097 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and innovative book explores the relationship between the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the experiential journey of spiritual practitioners. Taking the perspective of the questioning student, the author highlights the experiential deconstructive processes that are ignited when students' "everyday" dualistic thought structures are challenged by the non-dual nature of these teachings and practices. This fascinating and innovative book explores the relationship between the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the exp... |
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286,57 |
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Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging: The Heraka Movement in Northeast India
ISBN: 9781441196941 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India. Drawing upon critical studies of religion, cultural/ethnic identity, and nationalism, archival research in both India and Britain, and fieldwork in Assam, the book initiates new grounds for understanding the evolving notions of reform and identity in the emergence of a Heraka religion . Arkotong Longkumer argues that reform and identity are dynamically inter-related and linked to the revitalisation and negotiation...
Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the Nort...
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186,06 |
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Guruji: Teachings of a Hindu Saint
ISBN: 9781462009206 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1991, author Sunil Reddy was a college student in Hyderabad when he sought out Guruji Verahur V. Srinivasan, a retired deputy inspector general of police who was a Yogi and a God-realized saint. Reddy wanted to learn the art of meditation from this man who was a prodigy in mastering different spiritual paths. They connected, and for the next four years, the two met weekly. "Guruji: Teachings of a Hindu Saint" recounts those meetings and the lessons learned. Reddy presents this collection of spiritual practices and techniques gleaned from a master and designed to help guide a true... In 1991, author Sunil Reddy was a college student in Hyderabad when he sought out Guruji Verahur V. Srinivasan, a retired deputy inspector general ... |
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153,95 |
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Gnani Yoga or Development of Wisdom
ISBN: 9781618950703 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,37 |
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The System of Five Cakras in Kubjikāmatatantra 14-16
ISBN: 9789069800592 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kubjikāmatatantra in its Kulālikāmnāya version represents the primary literary source for the cult of the Hindu goddess Kubjikā. Three out of its twenty-five chapters, that is chapters 14-16, are devoted to a discussion of five cakras forming a system hitherto unknown. These five cakras are the seat of a great number of goddesses - called the Devīs, the Dūtīs, the Mātṛs, the Yoginīs and the Khecarīs, respectively - and, to a lesser degree, of male deities as well. Heilijgers' study presents a detailed examination of the esoteric...
The Kubjikāmatatantra in its Kulālikāmnāya version represents the primary literary source for the cult of the Hindu goddess Kubjik...
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505,67 |
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