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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Sacred texts > General

The Spirit of the Upanishads (Hardcover): Yogi Ramacharaka The Spirit of the Upanishads (Hardcover)
Yogi Ramacharaka
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Here in one compact volume is the "cream of Hindu philosophical thought," a collection of aphorisms, sayings, and proverbs culled from the Upanishads, the sacred writings of India, and assembled by one of the most influential writers and editors of the New Thought movement of the early 20th century, the adherents of which were profoundly interested in the collective spiritual wisdom of all humanity. This 1907 volume features the fruit of Hindu thinking on: . The Real Self . The Way . The Student . The Teacher . The Law of Karma . Spiritual Knowing . and more. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today, including "Yogi Ramacharaka" and "Theron Q. Dumont."

The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters - Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Patricia Crone The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters - Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Patricia Crone; Edited by Hanna Siurua
R6,392 Discovery Miles 63 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qur'anic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qur'anic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness

The Mahabharata (Hardcover): Meera Uberoi The Mahabharata (Hardcover)
Meera Uberoi
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Quran & History (Hardcover, English First Editiion ed.): Rafat Amari Quran & History (Hardcover, English First Editiion ed.)
Rafat Amari
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Holy Qur'an - Transliteration in Roman Script with Arabic Text and English Translation (English, Arabic, Hardcover):... The Holy Qur'an - Transliteration in Roman Script with Arabic Text and English Translation (English, Arabic, Hardcover)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Muslims believe that the Qur'an represents the words of God as revealed by the Angel Gabriel to Muhammad over a period of approximately twenty-three years, beginning in 610 AD, when he was forty, and concluding in 632 AD, the year of his death. All of it came from the mouth of one man. More people read the Quran than any other book ever written.This new edition of the book has been published to help Muslims not fluent in Arabic to understand the meaning of the words. It includes an English translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and a transliteration into Roman text by Abdul Haleem Eliyasee.However, it is important to remember at all times that the authoritative text is the Quran itself. These translations and transliterations are only intended to be helpful guides. They are not substitutes for the original.Every Muslim is required to read and understand the Quran to the extent of his ability. The words "To The Extent of his ability" is key. Obviously, a man who cannot speak Arabic and who is poorly educated will not be able to achieve the same level of understanding that a highly literate and educated native speaker of Arabic can. Nevertheless, even the poorly educated man must try to read and understand the actual words of the Quran. There is no Pope or supreme authority in Islam. Every man is his own authority. This is what Muslims believe.

The Studia Philonica Annual XXVII, 2015 - Studies in Hellenistic Judaism (Hardcover): David T. Runia, Gregory E. Sterling The Studia Philonica Annual XXVII, 2015 - Studies in Hellenistic Judaism (Hardcover)
David T. Runia, Gregory E. Sterling
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Surah Yasin - The Heart of the Qura'n - Arabic and English Language with English Translation (Paperback): Jamiatul Ulama... Surah Yasin - The Heart of the Qura'n - Arabic and English Language with English Translation (Paperback)
Jamiatul Ulama Talimi Board Kzn
R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Conciliation in the Qur'an - The Qur'anic Ethics of Conflict Resolution (Hardcover): Shafi Fazaluddin Conciliation in the Qur'an - The Qur'anic Ethics of Conflict Resolution (Hardcover)
Shafi Fazaluddin
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Conciliation in the Qur'an addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qur'an, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to sulh (reconciliation) as a mediation process in fragmented social contexts. The book offers a critical analysis of conciliation as a holistic concept in the Qur'an, providing linguistic and structural insight based on the renowned pre-modern Arabic exegesis of Al-Razi (d. 1209) and the under-studied contemporary Urdu exegesis of Islahi (d. 1997). This ambitious thematic study of the entire Qur'an includes an innovative examination of the central ethical notion of ihsan (gracious conduct), and a challenging discussion of notorious passages relating to conflict. The author offers solutions to unresolved issues such as the significance of the notion of islah (order), the relationship between conciliation and justice, and the structural and thematic significance of Q.48 (Surat Al-Fath) and Q.49 (Surat Al-Hujurat). Conciliation in the Qur'an offers a compelling argument for the prevalence of conciliation in the Islamic scripture, and will be an essential read for practitioners in Islamic studies, community integration, conflict-resolution, interfaith dialogue and social justice.

The Treasure of the Noble Quran - All Important Quranic Surahas & Islamic Dua in One Book (Paperback): The Way of Islam Uk The Treasure of the Noble Quran - All Important Quranic Surahas & Islamic Dua in One Book (Paperback)
The Way of Islam Uk
R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The City of God (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Saint Augustine The City of God (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Saint Augustine
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The I Ching (Book of Changes) - A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text (Hardcover): Geoffrey Redmond The I Ching (Book of Changes) - A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Redmond
R3,194 Discovery Miles 31 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The I Ching has influenced thinkers and artists throughout the history of Chinese philosophy. This new, accessible translation of the entire early text brings to life the hidden meanings and importance of China's oldest classical texts. Complemented throughout by insightful commentaries, the I Ching: A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text simplifies the unique system of hexagrams lying at the centre of the text and introduces the cultural significance of key themes including yin and yang, gender and ethics. As well as depicting all possible ethical situations, this new translation shows how the hexagram figures can represent social relationships and how the order of lines can be seen as a natural metaphor for higher or lower social rank. Introduced by Hon Tze-Ki, an esteemed scholar of the text, this up-to-date translation uncovers and explains both the philosophical and political interpretations of the text. For a better understanding of the philosophical and cosmological underpinning the history of Chinese philosophy, the I Ching is an invaluable starting point.

Subverting Scriptures - Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible (Hardcover): B. Benedix Subverting Scriptures - Critical Reflections on the Use of the Bible (Hardcover)
B. Benedix
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Focusing on writers who approach the Bible as a source that is both instructive and dangerous, "Subverting Scriptures" seeks to provide an academic analysis of cultural biblical saturation at a time when measured voices are necessary to counterbalance politically motivated religious rhetoric. Using as its point of departure the current political landscape - where the Bible is drawn on freely and unabashedly without critical reflection to legitimate and justify all manner of agendas - the contributors in this collection engage the Bible in new, imaginative, and critical ways, in the hopes of creating a new space for dialogue.

The Imitation of Christ (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Thomas... The Imitation of Christ (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Thomas A Kempis
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Vulnerability and Valour - A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities (Hardcover): Jessica M.... Vulnerability and Valour - A Gendered Analysis of Everyday Life in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities (Hardcover)
Jessica M. Keady
R4,632 Discovery Miles 46 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jessica M. Keady uses insights from social science and gender theory to shed light on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the community at Qumran. Through her analysis Keady shows that it was not only women who could be viewed as an impure problem, but also that men shared these characteristics as well. The first framework adopted by Keady is masculinity studies, specifically Raewyn Connell's hegemonic masculinity, which Keady applies to the Rule of the Community (in its 1QS form) and the War Scroll (in its 1QM form), to demonstrate the vulnerable and uncontrollable aspects of ordinary male impurities. Secondly, the embodied and empowered aspects of impure women are revealed through an application of embodiment theories to selected passages from 4QD (4Q266 and 4Q272) and 4QTohorot A (4Q274). Thirdly, sociological insights from Susie Scott's understanding of the everyday - through the mundane, the routine and the breaking of rules - reveal how impurity disrupts the constructions of daily life. Keady applies Scott's three conceptual features for understanding the everyday to the Temple Scroll (11QTa) and the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) to demonstrate the changing dynamics between ordinary impure males and impure females. Underlying each of these three points is the premise that gender and purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls communities are performative, dynamic and constantly changing.

The Torah and Its God - A Humanist Inquiry (Hardcover): Jordan Jay Hillman The Torah and Its God - A Humanist Inquiry (Hardcover)
Jordan Jay Hillman
R1,103 R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Save R105 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This detailed examination of the "Torah" (the first five books of the Bible) lays particular emphasis on the role and character of the Torah's transcendent God, as its central protagonist. Viewing both the 'Torah' and its God as purely human creations, humanist Jordan Jay Hillman seeks in no way to devalue this hugely influential book. His aim instead is to reinterpret it as a still vital text that used theistic means appropriate to its time to inspire people toward their worthiest human purposes. It is thus for its 'timeless themes' rather than its 'dated particularities' (including its model of a transcendent God) that we should honour the 'Torah' in our time as both the wellspring of Judaic culture and a major influence on Christian and Islamic ethics and morals. From his humanist perspective and his background as a lawyer and professor of law at North-western University (now emeritus), Hillman offers many insights into the narrative and wide-ranging legal code of "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers", and "Deuteronomy"- including their many contradictions and anomalies. His analysis draws on a broad scholarly consensus regarding the 'Documentary Theory', as it bears on the identities and periods of the Torah's human sources. This thorough explication of an often misunderstood ancient text will help humanists, and many theists alike, to appreciate the rich moral, ethical, and cultural heritage of the 'Torah' and its enduring relevance to our time.

Tractate Berakhot - Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractate Berakhot - Edition, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R9,586 Discovery Miles 95 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot (Hardcover): Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot (Hardcover)
Heinrich W. Guggenheimer
R8,172 Discovery Miles 81 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and an elaborate construction of hypothetical criminal courts supposedly independent of the king's administration. Tractate Horaiot, an elaboration of Lev. 4:1-26, defines the roles of High Priest, rabbinate, and prince in a Commonwealth strictly following biblical rules.

Numbers: The Wilderness Years (Hardcover): Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Numbers: The Wilderness Years (Hardcover)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
R631 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R45 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The book of Numbers in Hebrew, Bemidbar, In the Wilderness is a key text for our time. It is among the most searching, self-critical books in all of literature about what Nelson Mandela called the long walk to freedom. Its message is that there is no shortcut to liberty. Numbers is not an easy book to read, nor is it an optimistic one. It is a sober warning set in the midst of a text the Hebrew Bible that remains the West s master narrative of hope.

The Mosaic books, especially Exodus and Numbers, are about the journey from slavery to freedom and from oppression to law-governed liberty. On the map, the distance from Egypt to the Promised Land is not far. But the message of Numbers is that it always takes longer than you think. For the journey is not just physical, a walk across the desert. It is psychological, moral, and spiritual. It takes as long as the time needed for human beings to change....

You cannot arrive at freedom merely by escaping from slavery. It is won only when a nation takes upon itself the responsibilities of self-restraint, courage, and patience. Without that, a journey of a few hundred miles can take forty years. Even then, it has only just begun.

Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews - Collected Essays (Hardcover): Gabriella Gelardini Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews - Collected Essays (Hardcover)
Gabriella Gelardini
R3,388 Discovery Miles 33 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of, behind, and in front of Hebrews's text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance. She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the "Melchizedekian being without genealogy"; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.

Jeremiah's Scriptures - Production, Reception, Interaction, and Transformation (Hardcover): Hindy Najman, Konrad Schmid Jeremiah's Scriptures - Production, Reception, Interaction, and Transformation (Hardcover)
Hindy Najman, Konrad Schmid
R6,950 Discovery Miles 69 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jeremiah's Scriptures focuses on the composition of the biblical book of Jeremiah and its dynamic afterlife in ancient Jewish traditions. Jeremiah is an interpretive text that grew over centuries by means of extensive redactional activities on the part of its tradents. In addition to the books within the book of Jeremiah, other books associated with Jeremiah or Baruch were also generated. All the aforementioned texts constitute what we call "Jeremiah's Scriptures." The papers and responses collected here approach Jeremiah's scriptures from a variety of perspectives in biblical and ancient Jewish sub-fields. One of the authors' goals is to challenge the current fragmentation of the fields of theology, biblical studies, ancient Judaism. This volume focuses on Jeremiah and his legacy.

Early Indian and Theravada Buddhism - Soteriological Controversy and Diversity (Hardcover, New): Bradley S. Clough Early Indian and Theravada Buddhism - Soteriological Controversy and Diversity (Hardcover, New)
Bradley S. Clough
R2,501 Discovery Miles 25 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The context for the first part of this study is the community (sangha) of early Buddhism in India, as it is reflected in the religion's canon composed in the Pali language, which is preserved by the Theravada tradition as the only authentic record of the words of the Buddha and his disciples, as well as of events within that community. This book does not assert that the Pali Canon represents any sort of "original" Buddhism, but it maintains that it reflects issues and concerns of this religious community in the last centuries before the Common Era. The events focused on in part one of this study revolve around diversity and debate with respect to proper soteriology, which in earliest Buddhist communities entails what paths of practice successfully lead to the religion's final goal of nibbana (Sanskrit: nirvana). One of the main theses of this study is that some of the vocational and soteriological tensions and points of departure of the early community depicted in the Pali Canon have had a tendency to crop up in the ongoing Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka, which forms the second part of the study. In particular, part two covers first a vocational bifurcation in the Sri Lankan that has existed at least from the last century of the Common Era to contemporary times, and second a modern debate held between two leading voices in Theravada Buddhism, on the subject of what constitutes the right meditative path to nibbana.With a few notable exceptions, both members of Theravada Buddhism and the scholars who have studied them have maintained that the Pali Canon, and the ongoing tradition that has grown out of it, has a singular soteriology. The aim of this study is to deconstruct tradition, in the simple sense of revealing the tradition's essential multiplicity. Prior to this study, past scholarship--which preferred to portray early Indian and Theravada Buddhsim as wholly rationalist systems--has shied away from giving ample treatment on the noble person who possesses supernormal powers. This book examines the dichotomy between two Theravada monastic vocations that have grown out of tensions discussed in part one. The bifurcation is between the town-dwelling scholar monk and the forest-dwelling meditator monk. Scholars have certainly recognized this split in the sangha before, but this is the first attempt to completely compare their historical roles side by side. This is an important book for collections in Asian studies, Buddhist studies, history, and religious studies.

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3 - Lectures and Discourses, Bhakti-Yoga, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion,... The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3 - Lectures and Discourses, Bhakti-Yoga, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion, Lectures from Colombo to Almora, Reports in American Newspapers, Buddhistic India (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Legacy of Learning - Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner (Hardcover): Alan Avery-Peck, Bruce D. Chilton, William Scott Green,... A Legacy of Learning - Essays in Honor of Jacob Neusner (Hardcover)
Alan Avery-Peck, Bruce D. Chilton, William Scott Green, Gary Porton
R5,610 Discovery Miles 56 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a career spanning over fifty years, the questions Jacob Neusner has asked and the critical methodologies he has developed have shaped the way scholars have come to approach the rabbinic literature as well as the diverse manifestations of Judaism from rabbinic times until the present. The essays collected here honor that legacy, illustrating an influence that is so pervasive that scholars today who engage in the critical study of Judaism and the history of religions more generally work in a laboratory that Professor Neusner created. Addressing topics in ancient and Rabbinic Judaism, the Judaic context of early Christianity, American Judaism, World Religions, and the academic study of the humanities, these essays demarcate the current state of Judaic and religious studies in the academy today.

Daughters of Eve - Womanhood in Islam - A Comparative Look (Paperback): Fisa Authenticate Ulama's Organization Daughters of Eve - Womanhood in Islam - A Comparative Look (Paperback)
Fisa Authenticate Ulama's Organization
R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmasastra (Paperback): Ludo Rocher Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmasastra (Paperback)
Ludo Rocher; Edited by Donald R. Davis Jr.; Foreword by Richard W. Lariviere
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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