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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship

Jingle and Joy - Praying Beneath the Tree (Paperback): Jana Kennedy-Spicer Jingle and Joy - Praying Beneath the Tree (Paperback)
Jana Kennedy-Spicer; Jodie Barrett
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects (Paperback): Alexandra David-Neel, Lama Yongden The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects (Paperback)
Alexandra David-Neel, Lama Yongden
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secret Tantric Practice of Siddha Shakti Vidya - Den Hemmelige Tantriske Praksis Siddha Shakti Vidya (Paperback): Mr Jan... The Secret Tantric Practice of Siddha Shakti Vidya - Den Hemmelige Tantriske Praksis Siddha Shakti Vidya (Paperback)
Mr Jan Esmann
R197 Discovery Miles 1 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joy in God - Rekindling an Inner Fire (Paperback): Joachim Hartmann, Annette Clara Unkelhausser Joy in God - Rekindling an Inner Fire (Paperback)
Joachim Hartmann, Annette Clara Unkelhausser
R392 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Contemplative prayer and the contemplative way of life are the central themes of this book. Against the backdrop of their rich experience of accompanying those coming on retreat to House Gries, Germany, the authors talk about what happens in silence: healing and wholeness, suffering and consolation, forgiveness and reconciliation, gratitude and joy... This originated from a desire to make more widely available the experiences that emerge through conversations between retreatants and guides. The individual chapters of the book, each based on a particular theme have a clear and consistent structure. A short introduction to the theme is followed by a conversation. Scripture, the writings of St. Ignatius, experiences from spiritual accompaniment as well as the authors' own personal experiences form the basis for these conversations. Through using the questions, "Where was my heart burning?" "Where were my eyes opened?" the authors pick out aspects in the conversation which triggered a particular resonance within them. Finally, each chapter concludes with short exercises for the reader, relevant to the theme.

Uprising of the Fools - Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India (Paperback): Vikash Singh Uprising of the Fools - Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India (Paperback)
Vikash Singh
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Siva shrines. These devotees-called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians-are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish pursuit, but a means to master their anxieties and attest their good faith in unfavorable social conditions. Vikash Singh walked with the pilgrims of the Kanwar procession, and with this book, he highlights how the procession offers a social space where participants can prove their talents, resolve, and moral worth. Working across social theory, phenomenology, Indian metaphysics, and psychoanalysis, Singh shows that the pilgrimage provides a place in which participants can simultaneously recreate and prepare for the poor, informal economy and inevitable social uncertainties. In identifying with Siva, who is both Master of the World and yet a pathetic drunkard, participants demonstrate their own sovereignty and desirability despite their stigmatized status. Uprising of the Fools shows how religion today is not a retreat into tradition, but an alternative forum for recognition and resistance within a rampant global neoliberalism.

The Goodly Word - Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib (English, Arabic, Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya The Goodly Word - Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib (English, Arabic, Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya; Translated by Ezzeddin Ibrahim, Denys Johnson-Davies
R480 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"The Goodly Word: Al-Kalim al-Tayyib"-written by the renowned fourteenth century jurist, Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya-is one of the most referred to works on prayer and the merits of prayer. Exclusively based on what the Prophet Muhammad himself said and did, "The Goodly Word" includes prayers for every moment of the Muslim's life. It is presented in a bi-lingual edition so that the exact prayers of the Prophet can be read in the original Arabic. "The Goodly Word" has been translated into English by the late Ezzeddin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies, two distinguished scholars who have also translated "An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith" and "Forty Hadith Qudsi", both published by the Islamic Texts Society.

Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the Sheath - A Book of Readings (Paperback): Stephen Holmes Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the Sheath - A Book of Readings (Paperback)
Stephen Holmes
R3,444 Discovery Miles 34 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the Sheath: A Book of Readings features carefully selected articles that help students better understand the causes, functions, and similarities of sacred forms of violence across the spectrum. Students learn about crimes committed by individuals or groups against another based on an errant belief that their acts will bring about a greater good. This information equips readers with the knowledge they need to identify and understand the classic signs of group affiliation. The anthology is divided into eight parts. The first part presents readers with an introduction to the volume and a discussion of the sacred power of violence in popular cultural. Parts II through IV focus on cults, sects, and religious crimes; millennial religions; domestic and international terrorist religions. Students read articles about Satanism, vampirism and the Goth movement, and syncretistic religions, Wicca, and neo-paganism. The final part speaks to new religious movements, including fiction-based religions and Scientology. Throughout, students are encouraged to consider how groups grow, flourish, and prosper, as well as the elements that either render them benign or violent. Providing students with a unique view into group behavior, Ritualistic Crime, Criminals, and the Organizations behind the Sheath is an ideal resource for courses in criminal justice, criminology, or law enforcement.

Cachita's Streets - The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba (Paperback): Jalane D Schmidt Cachita's Streets - The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba (Paperback)
Jalane D Schmidt
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santeria, activists, politicians, and revolutionaries each have constructed and disputed the meanings of the Virgin. Schmidt examines the occasions from 1936 to 2012 when the Virgin's beloved, original brown-skinned effigy was removed from her national shrine in the majority black- and mixed-race mountaintop village of El Cobre and brought into Cuba's cities. There, devotees venerated and followed Cachita's image through urban streets, amassing at large-scale public ceremonies in her honor that promoted competing claims about Cuban religion, race, and political ideology. Schmidt compares these religious rituals to other contemporaneous Cuban street events, including carnival, protests, and revolutionary rallies, where organizers stage performances of contested definitions of Cubanness. Schmidt provides a comprehensive treatment of Cuban religions, history, and culture, interpreted through the prism of Cachita.

Deathpower - Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (Hardcover): Erik W. Davis Deathpower - Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia (Hardcover)
Erik W. Davis
R2,080 Discovery Miles 20 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.

Visits to the Blessed Sacrament (Abridged, Leather / fine binding, Abridged edition): Liguori Visits to the Blessed Sacrament (Abridged, Leather / fine binding, Abridged edition)
Liguori
R465 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R39 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cross and Its Shadow - Annotated (Paperback): Stephen N. Haskell, Ellen Rose The Cross and Its Shadow - Annotated (Paperback)
Stephen N. Haskell, Ellen Rose
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wild Goose Big Book of Worship Resources volume 2 (Paperback): The Iona Community Wild Goose Big Book of Worship Resources volume 2 (Paperback)
The Iona Community
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual - Temples and the Establishment of the Gods (Paperback): Michael Willis The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual - Temples and the Establishment of the Gods (Paperback)
Michael Willis
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this groundbreaking study, Michael Willis examines how the gods of early Hinduism came to be established in temples, how their cults were organized, and how the ruling elite supported their worship. Examining the emergence of these key historical developments in the fourth and fifth centuries, Willis combines Sanskrit textual evidence with archaeological data from inscriptions, sculptures, temples, and sacred sites. The centre-piece of this study is Udayagiri in central India, the only surviving imperial site of the Gupta dynasty. Through a judicious use of landscape archaeology and archaeo-astronomy, Willis reconstructs how Udayagiri was connected to the Festival of the Rainy Season and the Royal Consecration. Under Gupta patronage, these rituals were integrated into the cult of Vishnu, a deity regarded as the source of creation and of cosmic time. As special devotees of Vishnu, the Gupta kings used Udayagiri to advertise their unique devotional relationship with him. Through his meticulous study of the site, its sculptures and its inscriptions, Willis shows how the Guptas presented themselves as universal sovereigns and how they advanced new systems of religious patronage that shaped the world of medieval India.

Waqf in Central Asia - Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 (Paperback): R.D. McChesney Waqf in Central Asia - Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 (Paperback)
R.D. McChesney
R1,934 Discovery Miles 19 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and welfare institutions and serving as a legal means to keep family property intact through several generations. In this book R. D. McChesney focuses on the major Muslim shrine at Balkh--once a flourishing city on an ancient trade route in what is now northern Afghanistan--and provides a detailed study of the political, economic, and social conditions that influenced, and were influenced by, the development of a single religious endowment. From its founding in 1480 until 1889, when the Afghan government took control of it, the waqf at Balkh was a formidable economic force in a financially dynamic region, particularly during those times when the endowment's sacred character and the tax privileges it acquired gave its managers considerable financial security. This study sheds new light on the legal institution of waqf within Muslim society and on how political conditions affected the development of socio-religious institutions throughout Central Asia over a period of four hundred years.

Originally published in 1991.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

How to Pray the Rosary for Children - with Color Art for the 20 Mysteries (Paperback): Kathryn Marcellino How to Pray the Rosary for Children - with Color Art for the 20 Mysteries (Paperback)
Kathryn Marcellino
R173 R160 Discovery Miles 1 600 Save R13 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad (Paperback): Seth Schwartz The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad (Paperback)
Seth Schwartz
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this might be accomplished. Moreover, unlike most other introductions to the subject, it concentrates primarily on the people rather than issues of theology and adopts a resolutely unsentimental approach to the subject. Professor Schwartz particularly demonstrates the importance of studying Jewish history, texts and artefacts to the broader community of ancient historians because of what they can contribute to wider themes such as Roman imperialism. The book serves as an excellent introduction for students and scholars of Jewish history and of ancient history.

The Fifth Pillar - The Hajj Pilgrimage (Hardcover, 1st): Newsha Tavakolian, Rageh Omaar The Fifth Pillar - The Hajj Pilgrimage (Hardcover, 1st)
Newsha Tavakolian, Rageh Omaar
R916 R791 Discovery Miles 7 910 Save R125 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With an Introduction by Rageh Omaar Some twelve million Islamic pilgrims flock to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina annually in a voyage that is bidden of them by the fifth of the five pillars of Islam. If it can be funded, it is a religious duty to make the journey before they die. In recent years the Grand Mosque, and indeed the whole infrastructure that the pilgrims will encounter on their journey, has been substantially renovated and rebuilt to allow for the huge numbers who will come from all four corners of the earth. This photographic celebration of the Hajj pilgrimage will establish itself as the essential keepsake - a treasured tool in presenting the sights the traveller will encounter in the holy cities. Newsha Tavakolian's remarkable photography is reproduced here with full captions that detail the events and rituals that form part of the pilgrimage.

Mishkan Aveilut - Where Grief Resides (Paperback): Eric Weiss Mishkan Aveilut - Where Grief Resides (Paperback)
Eric Weiss
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Magic of Hebrew Chant Companion - The Big Book of Musical Notations and Incantations (Paperback): Shefa Gold The Magic of Hebrew Chant Companion - The Big Book of Musical Notations and Incantations (Paperback)
Shefa Gold; As told to Audrey Abrams, James Cooper
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The International Jew - Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States (Paperback): Henry Ford The International Jew - Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States (Paperback)
Henry Ford
R696 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R75 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lakota Belief and Ritual (Paperback, New Ed): James R. Walker Lakota Belief and Ritual (Paperback, New Ed)
James R. Walker; Edited by Elaine A. Jahner, Raymond J. DeMallie
R719 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R75 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the first of four that will present the best and most important portions of the hundreds of pages of notes, interviews, texts, and essays that James R. Walker amassed during his eighteen years at Pine Ridge Reservation.

Scriptural Rosary - How to Pray the Rosary and Meditate on the Mysteries: including Bible Verses, Art, Reflections, and the... Scriptural Rosary - How to Pray the Rosary and Meditate on the Mysteries: including Bible Verses, Art, Reflections, and the Fatima Story (Paperback)
Kathryn Marcellino
R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Break by Fire Prayers (Paperback): Juanita Smith Break by Fire Prayers (Paperback)
Juanita Smith
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sri Guru Gita (Paperback): Swami Nityananda Sri Guru Gita (Paperback)
Swami Nityananda
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gates of Prayer for Weekdays and at a of House Mourning - Gender-Inclusive Edition- English Opening (English, Hebrew,... Gates of Prayer for Weekdays and at a of House Mourning - Gender-Inclusive Edition- English Opening (English, Hebrew, Paperback, Gender-Inclusive ed.)
Chaim Stern
R126 Discovery Miles 1 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With changed in language regarding gender issues, this alternative version of ates of Prayer for the House of Mourning includes services for the funeral home and house of the bereaved, afternoon and evening services, special At a House of Mourning service, additional readings, meditations and Kaddish.

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