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In Search Of Justice In Thailand'S Deep South - Malay Muslim And Thai Buddhist Women''S Narratives

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 The narratives collected here, primarily from women, testify that although violence has been generated from both sides of the Buddhist/Muslim divide, the actions undertaken by armed forces of the Thai Buddhist state - including repressive violence and torture - have served as a catalyst for increased Muslim insurgency.
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Words Made Flesh - Formations Of The Postsecular In British Romanticism

by Sean Dempsey

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 Demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our very sense of embodiment in ways that have lasting effects on readersâ€™ affective, political, and spiritual lives.
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Precarious Balance - Sinhala Buddhism And The Forces Of Pluralism

by Bardwell L. Smith

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 Explores various themes of Sri Lankaâ€™s long history in novel and constructive ways. Topics include Sinhala Buddhistsâ€™ sense of manifest destiny arising from Sri Lankaâ€™s oldest historical chronicles, the Mahavamsa and the Dipavamsa; and concepts of order and legitimation of power in ancient Ceylon.
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Language Of Things - Emanuel Swedenborg And The American Environmental Imagination

by Devin P. Zuber

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 Offers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental role that religious experience could play in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. Devin Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic unfolded between the religious, the literary, and the ecological.
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Pragmatist Turn - Religion, The Enlightenment, And The Formation Of American Literature

by Giles Gunn

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 Offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what Giles Gunn calls spiritual imaginaries.
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The Pragmatist Turn - Religion, The Enlightenment, And The Formation Of American Literature

by Giles Gunn

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 Offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what Giles Gunn calls spiritual imaginaries.
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Newark Earthworks - Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings

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 Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. The first book-length volume devoted to the site, this text reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains of the earthworks and the site's undeniable importance to history.
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System Of Transcendental Idealism

by F. W. J. Schelling

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 An English translation of F.W.J. Schelling's ""System of Transcendental Idealism"", probably his most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication was in 1800. It contains his philosophy of art and influenced Coleridge's work.
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Pagan Writes Back - When World Religion Meets World Literature

by Zhange Ni

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 In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls â€œpagan criticismâ€, which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular.
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Freud And Augustine In Dialogue - Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, And The Culture Of Modern Spirituality

by William B. Parsons

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 <DIV><P><P>"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine." Yet it is commonly assumed that Freud and Augustine would have nothing to say to each other with regard to spirituality or mysticism, given the former''s alleged antipathy to religion and the latter''s not usually being considered a mystic.</P><P>Adopting an interdisciplinary, dialogical, and transformational framework for interpreting Augustine''s spiritual journey in his <I>Confessions,</I> Parsons places a "mystical theology" at the heart of Augustine''s narrative and argues that his mysticism has been misunderstood partly because of the limited nature of the psychological models applied to it. At the same time, he expands Freud''s therapeutic legacy to incorporate the contemporary findings of physiology and neuroscience that have been influenced in part by modern spirituality.</P><P>Parsons develops a new psychological hermeneutic to account for Augustine''s mysticism that will capture the imagination of contemporary readers who are both psychologically informed and interested in spirituality. The author intends this interpretive model not only to engage modern introspective concerns about developmental conflict and the power of the unconscious but also to reach a more nuanced level of insight into the origins and the nature of the self.</P></P></DIV>
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Vigilant Faith - Passionate Agnosticism In A Secular World

by Daniel Boscaljon

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 <DIV><P><P>In <I>Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World,</I> Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism. He proposes a model of faith for believers and unbelievers alike—a passionate agnosticism—that is rooted in a skeptical consciousness. Skepticism and faith are structurally similar, he writes, in that they share an "unknowing" quality. The author argues that vigilance—the act of keeping watch, a spiritual practice in its own right—is as necessary a precondition for the structure of faith as it is for the structure of skepticism. A suspension in uncertainty and an openness to possibility require vigilance, he attests, if faith and skepticism are to avoid the often dogmatic tendencies of both theism and atheism to cling to their own brands of certainty and knowledge.</P><P>Boscaljon has three aims: to expand the current, post-theistic definitions of God for greater relevance to human beings on an individual and existential level; to integrate skepticism into faith so that it will restore the importance of faith to current theology and recover it from anti-intellectual bias; and to conceptualize the vigilance of faith in such a way that can provide a vocabulary for distinguishing "good faith" from "bad faith." He offers a variety of cultural examples ranging from film to poetry to represent a life of faith and to show how its components come together in practice. As an alternative to the prevailing fundamentalisms in today''s world, his book proposes a paradigmatic understanding of faith in which theism, atheism, and agnosticism refuse to differ.</P></P></DIV>
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Bewildered Travel - The Sacred Quest For Confusion

by Frederick J. Ruf

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 Why do we travel? Travel is not merely a break from routine; it is its antithesis, a voluntary trading in of the security one feels at home for unpredictability and confusion. This book argues that this confusion, which we might think of simply as a necessary evil, is in fact the very thing we are seeking when we leave home.
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Textual Intimacy - Autobiography And Religious Identities

by Wesley A. Kort

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 <DIV><P>Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this "textual intimacy," Wesley Kort begins with a theorization of what it means to say who one is and how one''s self-account as a religious person stands in relation to other forms of self-identification. He then provides a critical analysis of autobiographical texts by nine contemporary American writers—including Maya Angelou, Philip Roth, and Anne Lamott—who give religion a positive place in their accounts of who they are. Finally, in disclosing his own religious identity, Kort concludes with a meditation on several meanings of the word <I>assumption.</I></P></DIV>
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Bewildered Travel - The Sacred Quest For Confusion

by Frederick J. Ruf

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 Why do we travel? Travel is not merely a break from routine; it is its antithesis, a voluntary trading in of the security one feels at home for unpredictability and confusion. This book argues that this confusion, which we might think of simply as a necessary evil, is in fact the very thing we are seeking when we leave home.
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The Working Man'S Green Space - Allotment Gardens In England, France, And Germany, 1870-1919

by Micheline Nilsen

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When The Sun Danced - Myth, Miracles And Modernity In Early Twentieth-Century Portugal

by Jeffrey S. Bennett

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The Value Of Solitude - The Ethics And Spirituality Of Aloneness In Autobiography

by John D. Barbour

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 Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In "The Value of Solitude", John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both positive and negative, have been interpreted as religiously significant.
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Meditation And The Martial Arts

by Michael L. Raposa

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 In this extraordinary alloy of meditation manual, historical synthesis, and spiritual guide, Michael Raposa provides a fascinating approach to understanding the connection between martial arts and spirituality in such diverse disciplines as Japanese aikido, Chinese tai chi chuan, Hindu yoga, Christian asceticism, Zen Buddhism, and Islamic jihad.
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American Koan - Imagining Zen And Self In Autobiographical Literature

by Ben Van Overmeire

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 The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercisesâ€"a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists employ to become enlightened. In American Koan, Ben Van Overmeire examines the literary function of these ancient dialogues in autobiographies of modern Western writers.
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American Koan - Imagining Zen And Self In Autobiographical Literature

by Ben Van Overmeire

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 The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercisesâ€"a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists employ to become enlightened. In American Koan, Ben Van Overmeire examines the literary function of these ancient dialogues in autobiographies of modern Western writers.
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American Koan - Imagining Zen And Self In Autobiographical Literature

by Ben Van Overmeire

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 The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercisesâ€"a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists employ to become enlightened. In American Koan, Ben Van Overmeire examines the literary function of these ancient dialogues in autobiographies of modern Western writers.
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Desire And The Ascetic Ideal - Buddhism And Hinduism In The Works Of T. S. Eliot

by Edward Upton

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 Centering on T.S. Eliotâ€™s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poetâ€™s work, analysing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliotâ€™s connection with Buddhist thought.
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Desire And The Ascetic Ideal - Buddhism And Hinduism In The Works Of T. S. Eliot

by Edward Upton

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 Centering on T.S. Eliotâ€™s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poetâ€™s work, analysing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliotâ€™s connection with Buddhist thought.
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Desire And The Ascetic Ideal - Buddhism And Hinduism In The Works Of T. S. Eliot

by Edward Upton

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 Centering on T.S. Eliotâ€™s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poetâ€™s work, analysing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliotâ€™s connection with Buddhist thought.
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