Escaping the World: Women Renouncers Among Jains
ISBN: 9781138662391 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book attends to a historical question - how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts - which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur. The volume foregrounds the primacy of 'choice' and 'agency'- upheld by the nuns themselves, who associate asceticism with autonomy, freedom, joy, spiritual well-being, self-worth and peace, and grihastha (household) with... The book attends to a historical question - how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient ... |
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Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Margin
ISBN: 9781349537006 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and culture, to reconfigure how we understand the way great cultures interact, and present a new constellation of diplomacy, literature, and geopolitics.
This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors p...
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Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781498564847 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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554,74 zł |
Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness
ISBN: 9783110683219 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians, and scholars of religion, the book considers different aspects of Jewish translation, starting from the early translations of the Torah, to the modern Jewish experience of migration, state-building and life in the Diaspora. The volume addresses the question of how Jews have used translation to pursue different cultural and political agendas, such as Jewish nationalism, the development of Yiddish as a...
This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With contributions from litera...
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130,56 zł |
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation
ISBN: 9780367762919 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Jaina Worldview: A Study and Translation of the Philosophical Chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama
ISBN: 9781032370071 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes the first English translation of its oldest commentary, the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya (TABh).
Focusing on the philosophical sections of the TA and TABh, which deviate from the traditional views and introduce several new concepts for the Jaina tradition, the analysis suggests that the TA and the TABh were written by different authors, and that both... This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text...
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I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales
ISBN: 9781438496610 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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385,49 zł |
Everlasting Spirituality
ISBN: 9781733475051 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,42 zł |