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Yoga Sutra (Italian, Paperback): Alessandra Di Muzio Yoga Sutra (Italian, Paperback)
Alessandra Di Muzio; Patanjali
R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Peking - Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (Hardcover): Susan Naquin Peking - Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (Hardcover)
Susan Naquin
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint.
This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.

Forholdet mellem guru og discipel (The Guru-Disciple Relationship--Danish) (Danish, Paperback): Sri Mrinalini Mata Forholdet mellem guru og discipel (The Guru-Disciple Relationship--Danish) (Danish, Paperback)
Sri Mrinalini Mata
R199 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R35 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
De relatie tussen guru en leerling (The Guru-Disciple Relationship--Dutch) (Dutch, Paperback): Sri Mrinalini Mata De relatie tussen guru en leerling (The Guru-Disciple Relationship--Dutch) (Dutch, Paperback)
Sri Mrinalini Mata
R199 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R35 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Convicting the Mormons - The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (Hardcover): Janiece Johnson Convicting the Mormons - The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (Hardcover)
Janiece Johnson
R2,778 Discovery Miles 27 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it became known, sent shockwaves through the western frontier of the United States, reaching the nation's capital and eventually crossing the Atlantic. In the years prior to the massacre, Americans dubbed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the "Mormon problem" as it garnered national attention for its "unusual" theocracy and practice of polygamy. In the aftermath of the massacre, many Americans viewed Mormonism as a real religious and physical threat to white civilization. Putting the Mormon Church on trial for its crimes against American purity became more important than prosecuting those responsible for the slaughter. Religious historian Janiece Johnson analyzes how sensational media attention used the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to enflame public sentiment and provoke legal action against Latter-day Saints. Ministers, novelists, entertainers, cartoonists, and federal officials followed suit, spreading anti-Mormon sentiment to collectively convict the Mormon religion itself. This troubling episode in American religious history sheds important light on the role of media and popular culture in provoking religious intolerance that continues to resonate in the present.

Convicting the Mormons - The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (Paperback): Janiece Johnson Convicting the Mormons - The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (Paperback)
Janiece Johnson
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it became known, sent shockwaves through the western frontier of the United States, reaching the nation's capital and eventually crossing the Atlantic. In the years prior to the massacre, Americans dubbed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the "Mormon problem" as it garnered national attention for its "unusual" theocracy and practice of polygamy. In the aftermath of the massacre, many Americans viewed Mormonism as a real religious and physical threat to white civilization. Putting the Mormon Church on trial for its crimes against American purity became more important than prosecuting those responsible for the slaughter. Religious historian Janiece Johnson analyzes how sensational media attention used the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to enflame public sentiment and provoke legal action against Latter-day Saints. Ministers, novelists, entertainers, cartoonists, and federal officials followed suit, spreading anti-Mormon sentiment to collectively convict the Mormon religion itself. This troubling episode in American religious history sheds important light on the role of media and popular culture in provoking religious intolerance that continues to resonate in the present.

Seeing Things - Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (Hardcover): Mason Kamana Allred Seeing Things - Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (Hardcover)
Mason Kamana Allred
R2,785 Discovery Miles 27 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning. Drawing on methods from cultural history, media studies, and religious studies, Allred focuses specifically on technologies of vision that have shaped Mormonism as a culture of seeing. These technologies, he argues, were as essential to the making of Mormonism as the humans who received, interpreted, and practiced their faith. While Mormons' uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition's use of visual technology, Allred excavates older practices and technologies for negotiating the spirit, such as panorama displays and magic lantern shows. Fusing media theory with feminist new materialism, he employs media archaeology to examine Mormons' ways of performing distinctions, beholding as a way to engender radical visions, and standardizing vision to effect assimilation. Allred's analysis reveals Mormonism as always materially mediated and argues that religious history is likewise inherently entangled with media.

Seeing Things - Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (Paperback): Mason Kamana Allred Seeing Things - Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (Paperback)
Mason Kamana Allred
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning. Drawing on methods from cultural history, media studies, and religious studies, Allred focuses specifically on technologies of vision that have shaped Mormonism as a culture of seeing. These technologies, he argues, were as essential to the making of Mormonism as the humans who received, interpreted, and practiced their faith. While Mormons' uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition's use of visual technology, Allred excavates older practices and technologies for negotiating the spirit, such as panorama displays and magic lantern shows. Fusing media theory with feminist new materialism, he employs media archaeology to examine Mormons' ways of performing distinctions, beholding as a way to engender radical visions, and standardizing vision to effect assimilation. Allred's analysis reveals Mormonism as always materially mediated and argues that religious history is likewise inherently entangled with media.

Sonhos (Portuguese, Paperback): Vinicius Iracet Sonhos (Portuguese, Paperback)
Vinicius Iracet
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
????? ?????????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ??  (Arabic, Paperback): Nun Christina, Anna Skoubourdis قانون البراكليسي للقديس افرايم العظيم في (Arabic, Paperback)
Nun Christina, Anna Skoubourdis
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intuicao - Despertando a mediunidade para alcancar novos estados de consciencia (Portuguese, Paperback): Nelson Liano Intuicao - Despertando a mediunidade para alcancar novos estados de consciencia (Portuguese, Paperback)
Nelson Liano
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sentir para pensar (Portuguese, Paperback): Luigi Baricelli Sentir para pensar (Portuguese, Paperback)
Luigi Baricelli
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creencias religiosas en la China antigua (Spanish, Paperback): Gustavo Mateu Fombuena Creencias religiosas en la China antigua (Spanish, Paperback)
Gustavo Mateu Fombuena; Introduction by Miguel Angel Sanchez Lopez; Edited by Angel Fernandez Fernandez
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Vida Depois Da Morte (Portuguese, Paperback): Osmar Barbosa A Vida Depois Da Morte (Portuguese, Paperback)
Osmar Barbosa
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Das Buch Von Maat - Das Vermachtnis des Hermes Trismegistos (German, Paperback): La Escriba Das Buch Von Maat - Das Vermachtnis des Hermes Trismegistos (German, Paperback)
La Escriba
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Celebrate Wealthy Lunar New Year by Using I Ching - ?ng D?ng D?ch Ly - Kinh D?ch ?on T?t Nguyen ?an (Spanish, Paperback): Thai... Celebrate Wealthy Lunar New Year by Using I Ching - Ứng Dụng Dịch Ly - Kinh Dịch Đon Tết Nguyen Đan (Spanish, Paperback)
Thai Quoc Tran
R2,214 R2,088 Discovery Miles 20 880 Save R126 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Guru Within (Paperback): Swami Satchidananda The Guru Within (Paperback)
Swami Satchidananda
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Comments from Sri Swami Satchidananda on the yogic perspective on that portion of the Holy Bible known as the Beatitudes. This booklet has the flavor of a public talk; it is illustrated with photographs.

The Guru-Disciple Relationship (Russian) (Russian, Paperback): Sri Mrinalini Mata The Guru-Disciple Relationship (Russian) (Russian, Paperback)
Sri Mrinalini Mata
R198 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R35 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How You Can Talk With God (Hungarian) (Hungarian, Paperback): Paramahansa Yogananda How You Can Talk With God (Hungarian) (Hungarian, Paperback)
Paramahansa Yogananda
R199 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R35 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oraculo de compasion - la palabra viva de Kuan Yin (Spanish, Paperback): Hope Bradford Oraculo de compasion - la palabra viva de Kuan Yin (Spanish, Paperback)
Hope Bradford
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When God is a Customer - Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (Paperback): A.K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao,... When God is a Customer - Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (Paperback)
A.K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
R778 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night?
These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. That customer, it turns out, is the deity, whom the courtesan teases for his infidelities and cajoles into paying her more money. Brazen, autonomous, fully at home in her body, she merges her worldly knowledge with the deity's transcendent power in the act of making love.
This volume is the first substantial collection in English of these Telugu writings, which are still part of the standard repertoire of songs used by classical South Indian dancers. A foreword provides context for the poems, investigating their religious, cultural, and historical significance. Explored, too, are the attempts to contain their explicit eroticism by various apologetic and rationalizing devices.
The translators, who are poets as well as highly respected scholars, render the poems with intelligence and tenderness. Unusual for their combination of overt eroticism and devotion to God, these poems are a delight to read.

Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History (Hardcover): Paul T Phillips Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History (Hardcover)
Paul T Phillips
R1,211 R1,056 Discovery Miles 10 560 Save R155 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians - aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology - have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history's sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of "post-truth." He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline's mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from other disciplines. This book is a call to action for all those engaged in the study of history to direct more attention to the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning.

La creazione nell'Induismo - Miti e leggende (Italian, Paperback): Giuseppe Marino La creazione nell'Induismo - Miti e leggende (Italian, Paperback)
Giuseppe Marino
R132 Discovery Miles 1 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paperback): Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi (Paperback)
Paramahansa Yogananda
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Autobiografie van een yogi (Autobiography of a Yogi--Dutch) (Dutch, Paperback): Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiografie van een yogi (Autobiography of a Yogi--Dutch) (Dutch, Paperback)
Paramahansa Yogananda
R770 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R107 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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