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The Dance Of Siva - Religion, Art And Poetry In South India

by David (Lancaster University) Smith

64,89€ + 10% CARD

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 Complete account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which is based on a Sanskrit poem written by Umapati Sivacarya about 1300 AD. It deals with the famous Chola Nataraja bronze - the best-known Hindu image - the key location of Siva's Dance in south India, and the temple of Cidambaram. With thirty illustrations.
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Christian Pluralism In The United States - The Indian Immigrant Experience

by Raymond Brady (Wabash College, Indiana) Williams

45,96€ + 10% CARD

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 Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. This is a comprehensive study of these Christians, their churches, and their adaptation. Williams reveals some of the reverse effects on churches and institutions in India.
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Women Under The Bo Tree - Buddhist Nuns In Sri Lanka

by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz

59,48€ + 10% CARD

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 Tessa Bartholomeusz explores the relationship between female world-renunciation in Buddhist Sri Lanka and attitudes about women and the religious vocation more generally. A lively history of Buddhist female renouncers on the island is combined with insights derived from the experiences of modern Buddhist women.
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The Body Divine - The Symbol Of The Body In The Works Of Teilhard De Chardin And Ramanuja

by Anne Hunt Overzee

50,02€ + 10% CARD

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 The book makes an significant contribution to comparative theology, and explores the wide-ranging implications of a religious symbol whose potency is perennial, cross-cultural, and of continuing contemporary importance.
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Relics, Ritual, And Representation In Buddhism - Rematerializing The Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition

by Kevin (University Of Vermont) Trainor

66,24€ + 10% CARD

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 This study draws on textual and archaeological evidence to examine the place of relic veneration in the history of South Asian Buddhism. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientations, and ritualized behaviours centred on the Buddha's material remains, the author contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism presently under way among Western scholars.
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Religion And The Individual - A Jewish Perspective

by Louis Jacobs

43,26€ + 10% CARD

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 Through a careful analysis of the primary texts, Jacobs conducts a thorough survey of some of the most important instances where the individual is discussed in the Jewish religious tradition.
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The Feminine Principle In The Sikh Vision Of The Transcendent

by Nikky-Guninder Kaur (Colby College, Maine) Singh

37,85€ + 10% CARD

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 This work is a critical interpretation of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective, and puts a new interpretation on a relatively unexplored religious tradition, while reversing the predominantly androcentric hermeneutics which has prevailed in Sikh scholarship.
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The Religious Culture Of India - Power, Love And Wisdom

by Friedhelm (University Of London) Hardy

64,89€ + 10% CARD

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 A lively and innovative exploration of the traditional Indian religions and cultures, which have both fascinated and puzzled the West for centuries. Utilizing a wide variety of sources, Hardy offers the non-specialist reader an entertaining and colourful picture of an alien world which is nevertheless recognizably human.
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Religion And The Body

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 This book highlights the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and raises to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes. It is a rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society and the divine.
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Mysticism And Kingship In China - The Heart Of Chinese Wisdom

by Julia (University Of Toronto) Ching

110,85€ + 10% CARD

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 In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. Lucidly written, the book will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand how today's China continues to draw on its past.
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The Dance Of Siva - Religion, Art And Poetry In South India

by David (Lancaster University) Smith e David Smith

131,13€ + 10% CARD

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 Complete account of Siva's Dance of Bliss, which is based on a Sanskrit poem written by Umapati Sivacarya about 1300 AD. It deals with the famous Chola Nataraja bronze - the best-known Hindu image - the key location of Siva's Dance in south India, and the temple of Cidambaram. With thirty illustrations.
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Mysticism And Kingship In China - The Heart Of Chinese Wisdom

by Julia (University Of Toronto) Ching

77,06€ + 10% CARD

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 In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. Lucidly written, the book will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand how today's China continues to draw on its past.
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Nirvana And Other Buddhist Felicities

by Steven (University Of Chicago) Collins

214,95€ + 10% CARD

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 This book discusses nirvana, Buddhist utopias, textuality and the study of premodern civilizations. By setting nirvana in the wider category of Buddhist Felicities and integrating Buddhist texts with South Asian and World history, Steve Collins has developed an interesting approach to the the question: what is nirvana?
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The Body Divine - The Symbol Of The Body In The Works Of Teilhard De Chardin And Ramanuja

by Anne Hunt Overzee

140,60€ + 10% CARD

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 The book makes an significant contribution to comparative theology, and explores the wide-ranging implications of a religious symbol whose potency is perennial, cross-cultural, and of continuing contemporary importance.
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Evil And Suffering In Jewish Philosophy

by Oliver (Liverpool John Moores University) Leaman e Oliver Leaman

62,19€ + 10% CARD

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 In this study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and why have the Jewish people been so harshly treated throughout history, given their status as the chosen people?
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Philosophical Meditations On Zen Buddhism

by Dale S. (Occidental College, Los Angeles) Wright

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. While deeply sympathetic to the Zen tradition, it raises serious questions about the kinds of claims that can be made on its behalf.
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Philosophical Meditations On Zen Buddhism

by Dale S. (Occidental College, Los Angeles) Wright

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. While deeply sympathetic to the Zen tradition, it raises serious questions about the kinds of claims that can be made on its behalf.
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Religion And The Body

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 This book highlights the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and raises to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes. It is a rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society and the divine.
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British Television Drama In The 1980s

47,32€

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 In this fascinating collection of twelve essays, the innovative programmes of the period are analysed and placed within their social and political contexts.
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Vibrations And Waves In Physics

by Iain G. Main

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 Third edition of one of our most successful undergraduate texts in physics.
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Mastering Phpmyadmin For Effective Mysql Management

by Marc Delisle

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 Providing a graphical interface for managing MySQL, phpMyAdmin is one of the most popular open source applications. This book begins with a comprehensive tutorial of phpMyAdmin that explains and demonstrates the potential of this tool. It also shows the less well known and generally under-used features and capabilities of phpMyAdmin.
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The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequenc

by Hilary A. Herbert

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A Bit Of Rough

by Laura, Baumbach

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