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Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (Hardcover, New): Martin Bommas, Juliette Harrisson, Phoebe Roy Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (Hardcover, New)
Martin Bommas, Juliette Harrisson, Phoebe Roy
R4,703 Discovery Miles 47 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title deals with the role of memory in shaping religion in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. This volume brings together scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious traditions and memory, and the multifunctional roles of architectural and geographical sites, mythical figures and events, literary works and artefacts. Pagan religions were often less static and more open to new influences than previously understood. One of the factors that shape religion is how fundamental elements are remembered as valuable and therefore preservable for future generations. Memory, therefore, plays a pivotal role when - as seen in ancient Rome during late antiquity - a shift of religions takes place within communities. The significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted, prompted, contested and even destroyed is discussed in detail. This volume, the first of its kind, will not only address the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Hardcover): Alfred Edersheim Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Hardcover)
Alfred Edersheim
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Concept of Labor in Islam (Hardcover): Khalil Ur Rehman The Concept of Labor in Islam (Hardcover)
Khalil Ur Rehman
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Xiaojing The Classic of Filial Piety - Chinese-English Edition (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition):... Xiaojing The Classic of Filial Piety - Chinese-English Edition (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Confucius; Translated by James Legge
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Defining Shugendo - Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Hardcover): Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, Carina Roth Defining Shugendo - Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Hardcover)
Andrea Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, Carina Roth
R3,718 Discovery Miles 37 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2022 Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain Religion Book Prize Defining Shugendo brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen them as sites for ascetic practices, claiming the potential to attain supernatural powers there. This book discusses the history of scholarship on Shugendo, the development process of mountain worship, and the religious and philosophical features of devotion at specific sacred mountains. Moreover, it reveals the rich material and visual culture associated with Shugendo, from statues and steles, to talismans and written oaths.

A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics - Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Hardcover, New): Fabio Rambelli A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics - Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Hardcover, New)
Fabio Rambelli
R5,358 Discovery Miles 53 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of the Japanese Shingon tradition. Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual and religious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what it appears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self and reality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status of language and representations, and on the possibility and methods to know reality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined as enlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to salvation; this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists. This book discusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based primarily on original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication in the fields of semiotics and religious studies.

The Calling - Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (Hardcover, Hardcover): Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman The Calling - Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (Hardcover, Hardcover)
Hussein Ahdieh, Hillary Chapman
R1,772 Discovery Miles 17 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality (Hardcover): Suzanne Owen The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality (Hardcover)
Suzanne Owen
R5,023 Discovery Miles 50 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating and important volume which brings together new perspectives on the objections to, and appropriation of Native American Spirituality. Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans, with little concern for the diversity of Native American opinions. Suzanne Owen offers an insight into appropriation that will bring a new understanding and perspective to these debates.This important volume collects together these key debates from the last few years and sets them in context, analyses Native American objections to appropriations of their spirituality and examines 'New Age' practices based on Native American spirituality." The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality" includes the findings of fieldwork among the Mi'Kmaq of Newfoundland on the sharing of ceremonies between Native Americans and First Nations, which highlights an aspect of the debate that has been under-researched in both anthropology and religious studies: that Native American discourses about the breaking of 'protocols', rules on the participation and performance of ceremonies, is at the heart of objections to the appropriation of Native American spirituality.This groundbreaking new series offers original reflections on theory and method in the study of religions, and demonstrates new approaches to the way religious traditions are studied and presented.Studies published under its auspices look to clarify the role and place of Religious Studies in the academy, but not in a purely theoretical manner. Each study will demonstrate its theoretical aspects by applying them to the actual study of religions, often in the form of frontier research.

A House of Weeping - The Motif of Tears in Akkadian and Hebrew Prayers (Hardcover): David A. Bosworth A House of Weeping - The Motif of Tears in Akkadian and Hebrew Prayers (Hardcover)
David A. Bosworth
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Pilgrimage and Power - The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 (Hardcover): Kama Maclean Pilgrimage and Power - The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954 (Hardcover)
Kama Maclean
R2,732 Discovery Miles 27 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the government of Uttar Pradesh, 30 million pilgrims were drawn to the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna on the most auspicious day for bathing. In an impressive feat of organization and administration, the first mela of the new millennium was managed to the overwhelming satisfaction of most, with an impressive health and safety record. The loudest complaint had to do with the intrusive presence of the media. Journalists, largely representing foreign media outlets, had swarmed to the mela, intent on broadcasting to a global audience sensational images of naked (or wet-sari-clad) Indians taking part in "ancient" religious rituals.
Resistance to foreign interference with the mela has roots that go back 200 years. The British colonial state and the colonized had different ideas about what the Kumbh Mela represented: for the former, it was a potentially dangerous gathering that demanded tight regulation and control, but for the latter it was a sacred sphere in which foreign domination and interference were intolerable. In this book Kama Maclean examines this tension and the manner in which it was negotiated by each side. She asks why and how the colonial state tried to manipulate the mela and, more important, how the mela changed as Indians responded to the colonial power. In recent years many scholars have emphasized the extent to which the Kumbh Mela has been monopolized by the Hindu nationalist movement. Maclean seeks to situate the history of the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad within a much broader context. She explores the role ofa pilgrimage fair like the Kumbh Mela in disseminating ideas, particularly political ones like nationalism and ideas about social reform.
Kama Maclean tells the mesmerizing and important story of the Kumbh Mela with exciting detail as well as careful scholarly attention, illuminating for the reader the full scope of the event's historical and socio-political context.

Tantra - Liberation in the world (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Prabhuji David Ben Yosef Har-Zion Tantra - Liberation in the world (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Prabhuji David Ben Yosef Har-Zion
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Women in the Islamic World - From Earliest Times to the Arab Spring (Hardcover): Irene Schneider Women in the Islamic World - From Earliest Times to the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
Irene Schneider
R2,637 Discovery Miles 26 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes and analyses the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past and present. Starting with Sharia regulations and their applications in societies throughout history, it addresses the obstacles and opportunities women have faced, and still face, in various Islamic societies. The last chapter addresses women's participation in the Arab Spring and their hopes and disappointments. The result is a vivid portrait of the different worlds of women in Islam, encompassing religion and law, sexuality and love, literature and the arts, law and professional life, and politics and power.

Muslim and Supermuslim - The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Roy Jackson Muslim and Supermuslim - The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Roy Jackson
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: 'Man' is replaced by 'Superman'. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement concerns the central question of what this 'Superman' - or 'Supermuslim' - would actually entail. To look at what Islam can contribute we need not restrict ourselves to the Qur'an and the legal tradition, but also reach out to its philosophical and literary corpus. Roy Jackson focuses on such contributions from Muslim philosophy, science, and literature to see how Islam can confront and respond to the challenges raised by the growing movement of transhumanism.

The Mind of Jihad (Hardcover): Laurent Murawiec The Mind of Jihad (Hardcover)
Laurent Murawiec
R2,243 Discovery Miles 22 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe's medieval millenarians and apocalyptics, arguing that both jihadis and their European cousins shared in a Gnostic ideology: a God-given mission endowed the Elect with supernatural powers and placed them above the common law of mankind. Although the ideology of jihad is essentially Islamic, Murawiec traces the political technologies used by modern jihad to the Bolsheviks. Their doctrines of terror as a system of rule were appropriated by radical Islam through multiple lines of communication. This book brings history, anthropology, and theology to bear to understand the mind of jihad that has declared war on the West and the world.

The Vishnu Purana - A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (Hardcover): H.H. Wilson The Vishnu Purana - A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (Hardcover)
H.H. Wilson
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1864. Author: H. H. Wilson, M.A., F.R.S., Language: English Keywords: Religion / Hinduism Translated from the original Sanskrit. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover): Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker
R3,073 Discovery Miles 30 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books such as Samuel and Kings. Less attention was payed to its possible relationships to the priestly literature. Against this backdrop, this volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature (in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel). Since Chronicles and Pentateuch (and also Ezekiel) studies have been regarded as separate fields of study, we invited experts from both fields in order to open a space for fruitful discussions with each other. The contributions deal with connections and interactions between specific texts, ideas, and socio-historical contexts of the literary works, as well as with broad observations of the relationship between them.

Singing for the Gods - Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (Hardcover): Barbara Kowalzig Singing for the Gods - Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (Hardcover)
Barbara Kowalzig
R5,958 R4,931 Discovery Miles 49 310 Save R1,027 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.

Encyclopedia of Famous and Historic Bells (Hardcover): Justin Corfield Encyclopedia of Famous and Historic Bells (Hardcover)
Justin Corfield
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Studies in Judaism and Pluralism - Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Academy for Jewish Religion (Hardcover): Leonard Levin Studies in Judaism and Pluralism - Honoring the 60th Anniversary of the Academy for Jewish Religion (Hardcover)
Leonard Levin
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pathways to the Heart (Hardcover): Reuven Boshnack Pathways to the Heart (Hardcover)
Reuven Boshnack
R802 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R87 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age (Hardcover): Yoram Cohen Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age (Hardcover)
Yoram Cohen
R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wang Fuzhi's Reconstruction of Confucianism - Crisis and Reflection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Mingran Tan Wang Fuzhi's Reconstruction of Confucianism - Crisis and Reflection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Mingran Tan
R3,361 Discovery Miles 33 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review of Wang Fuzhi's understanding of historical events and his interpretation of the Confucian classics. Tan explains what kind of Confucian system Wang Fuzhi was trying to construct according to his motto, "The Six Classics require me to create something new". He sought a basis for Confucian values such as filial piety, humanity and ritual propriety from political, moral and cosmological perspectives, arguing that they could cultivate a noble personality, beatify political governance, and improve social and cosmological harmony. This inspired Wang Fuzhi's attempt to establish a syncretic blend of the three branches of Neo-Confucianism, i.e., Zhu Xi's (1130-1200) philosophy of principle , Wang Yangming's (1472-1529) philosophy of mind and Zhang Zai's (1020-1077) philosophy of qi (material force). The most thorough work on Wang Fuzhi available in English, this study corrects some general misunderstanding of the nature of Wang Fuzhi's philosophy and helps readers to understand Wang Fuzhi from an organic perspective. Building upon previous scholars' research on Wang Fuzhi's notion of moral cultivation, Tan gives a comprehensive understanding of how Wang Fuzhi improves social and cosmological harmony through compliance with Confucian rituals.

Confucianism and Taoism (Hardcover): B.S. Bonsall Confucianism and Taoism (Hardcover)
B.S. Bonsall
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contents Include CONFUCIANISM Confucius and the Confucian School Religious Ideas of the Confucian Classes Confucian Ethics Modern Confucianism TAOISM Lao-tzu The Tao-Teth-Ching Later Taoist Writers Modern TaoismKeywords: Confucian Ethics Confucian School Lao Tzu Confucianism Taoism Religious Ideas Confucius Taoist Tao

The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox (Paperback): Roberta G. Sands The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox (Paperback)
Roberta G. Sands
R862 R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Memoir To Human Emotion- Hardcover edition - Ramblings of a Human Spark (Hardcover): Rebbetzin Hannah Bejarano-Gutierrez A Memoir To Human Emotion- Hardcover edition - Ramblings of a Human Spark (Hardcover)
Rebbetzin Hannah Bejarano-Gutierrez
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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