Volume 2 of 2. With other essays on related subjects by eminent authorities. These volumes give a summary of the entire matter of phallicism. The chapters deal with the meaning of phallicism, phallic customs, phallicism and religion, phallicism in literature and art, phallicism and life. The author's point of view is that of the physician and his presentation is direct and straightforward. He does not minister to a depraved curiosity, nor does he glory in obscene details.

Vol. 2 of a 2 Vol. set. The author's final volume of his projected work on Oriental religions, the subject matter being Persia. Great pains were taken by the author to verify his authorities, by consulting five or six of the best Orientalists in the world. This volume is considered the masterpiece of the series, exhibiting the evolution of moral sentiment. Contents: advent of the religion of personal will, its elements; development; political forces; philosophies; Islam.

Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos.
In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America's God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmeditself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder.
Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day.

Vol. 1 of a 2 vol. set. A review of the religions of India with ethical and social criticism of their beliefs and practices, one part in the author's treatment of all oriental religions. The author notes directions in which the differing civilizations may help to supply each other's defects; and endeavor to bring the old antipodal races now practically at our doors under that light of free and fair inquiry which justice to them and to the common good requires. Contents of part one (of two): Religion and life - primitive Aryas, Hindu mind, hymns, tradition, the laws, woman, social forms and forces; Religious philosophy - Vedanta, Sankhya.

A study of three religious masterpieces: Gita, Lotus and Fourth Gospel. Contents: historical founder; environment of the three books and their aims; The Eternal Order, Logos, Brahman, Dharma; architecture and analysis of the books; goal in the three books; their ethical heritage; their ethical ideals; their doctrinal heritage and teaching.

Vol. 1 of a 2 Vol. set. The author's final volume of his projected work on Oriental religions, the subject matter being Persia. Great pains were taken by the author to verify his authorities, by consulting five or six of the best Orientalists in the world. This volume is considered the masterpiece of the series, exhibiting the evolution of moral sentiment. Contents: advent of the religion of personal will, its elements; development; political forces; philosophies; Islam.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

1879. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Sacred Books of China; The Texts of Confucianism Part I contains: The Shu King; The Religious Portions of the Shih King; and The Hsiao King. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1890. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Vedanta Sutras with the commentary by Sankarakarya Part I contains Adhyaya I and II. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1885. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. The Sacred Books of China; The Texts of Confucianism Part IV contains The Li Ki, XI-XLVI. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1894. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. Contents: Book IV. The Solving of Dilemmas; Book V. The Problem of Inference; Book VI. The Voluntary Extra Vows; and Book VII. Similes of Arahatship. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1884. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. This volume contains The Saddharma-Pundarika or the Lotus of the True Law and is one of the nine Dharmas known by the titles of Ashtasahasrika Pragnaparamita; Ganda-vyuha; Dasabhumisvara; Samadhi-raga; Lankavatara; Saddharma-pundarika; Tathagata-guhyaka; Lalita-vistara; and Suvarna-prabhasa. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The problem of the universe has never offered the slightest difficulty to Chinese philosophers. Before the beginning of all things, there was Nothing. In the lapse of ages Nothing coalesced into Unity, the Great Monad. After more ages, the Great Monad separated into Duality, the Male and Female Principles in nature; and then, by a process of biogenesis, the visible universe was produced.

A work found in the Wisdom of the East Series. Contents: Three Factors of Self-Fulfillment; India's Spiritual Intuition; India's Utilitarian and Aesthetic Sacrifices; Indian Thought and Western Science; Chinese Aestheticism; Chinese Religion and the Aesthetic Spirit; Chinese Aesthetic Utilitarianism; Japanese Utilitarian Instinct; Japan's Creative Religious Discernment; Japanese Aestheticism.

This is a collection of poetry describing life on a spiritual path in this modern age, here in the west. The poems describe the spread of Sikh dharma to the west and the reflections of a student of a great new age master, Yogi Bhajan.

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1880. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as the comparative science of religions. This volume contains Part II of The Qur'an; Chapters XVII to CXIV. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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A Foreign Correspondent's Search for Her Cultural and Spiritual Identity

What began as an assignment from her editor at the "Wall Street Journal" to investigate "America's hottest new fad," the secrets of sexual ecstasy in Tantra, became a story that would lead reporter Asra Nomani halfway around the world and change forever her life, faith, and self-identity. From a New Age Tantric seminar in Santa Cruz to sitting at the feet of the Dalai Lama in India, from meditation caves in Thailand to crossing the Khyber Pass with Muslim militants and staring down the barrel of an Afghan soldier's AK-47, Nomani's trek unexpectedly climaxes in Pakistan, where she risks great danger in joining the hunt for kidnapped fellow reporter Danny Pearl. She travels the globe in search of this elusive "divine love," but ultimately hers is a journey of self-discovery in which the divine within herself and within all women -- all "tantrikas" -- is revealed.

This book contains a series of eleven essays, ten of which relate to India. These essays are the outcome of personal observation in certain provinces and interaction with the people. One essay discusses China, of which the author has no direct knowledge. Contents: religion of an Indian province; on the origin of divine myths in India; influence upon religion of a rise in morality; witchcraft and non-Christian religions; missionary and non-missionary religions; relations between the state and religion in China; on the formation of some clans and castes in India; the Rajput states of India; Islam in India; our religious policy in India; religious situation in India.

Vol. 2 of a 2 vol. set. A review of the religions of India with ethical and social criticism of their beliefs and practices, one part in the author's treatment of all oriental religions. The author notes directions in which the differing civilizations may help to supply each other's defects; and endeavor to bring the old antipodal races now practically at our doors under that light of free and fair inquiry which justice to them and to the common good requires. Contents of part two (of two): Religious philosophy; Bhagavad-Gita; piety and morality of Pantheism; incarnation, transmigration; religious universality; Buddhism; speculative principles; Nirvana; ethics and humanities; the hour and the man; afterlife in India; Buddhist civilization; ecclesiasticism.

Building upon his life-long work on the Book of Leviticus, Milgrom makes this book accessible to all readers. He demonstrates the logic of Israel's sacrificial system, the ethical dimensions of ancient worship, and the priestly forms of ritual.

The author has done his best in presenting an accurate and truthful portrait of the movements in India. To deal with this entire subject adequately, however, two volumes would have been necessary. Therefore, matters have been compressed everywhere and because the religious movements are so varied and intricate, there are many omissions and mistakes. Contents: historical outline of the period; reform checked by defense of the old faiths 1870-1913; full defense of the old religions 1870-1913; religious nationalism; social reform and service; significance of the movements. Illustrated.