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The inner dynamics of the author's personal Guru-disciple relationship are described through references to scripture, the poetry of saints, and his own relationship with Guru Bhagawan Nityananda.About the AuthorSwami Muktananda introduced the Siddha Yoga...

Drawing from sacred scriptures, world religions, literature, philosophy and psychology, this monograph explores them as universal sources of religious experience and mysticism. It systematically establishes the similarities and differences between them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447067430Author Kasturi DadheFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 6250g

This volume in honour of Adelbert Davids, professor emeritus of Patristic studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Radboud University Nijmegen and former editor-in-chief of The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, was first published in that same...

This book offers a complete bibliographical presentation of Syriac authors and texts in the domain of Syriac asceticism and mysticism. It also includes Greek texts that were translated into Syriac and profoundly influenced the spiritual life of...

Orthodox theology and the Orthodox Churches had, and continue to have an ambiguous relationship towards the concept of Human Rights: principal approval often stands alongside serious criticism. This is especially true for those Orthodox Churches which...

This volume contains selected papers of a conference in 2004 at Utrecht University on aesthetics as a religious factor in Eastern and Western Christianity. They discuss the role of aesthetics in the presentation and expression of Christian faith in...

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. Explores the development...

Lone Star Muslims offers an engaging and insightful look at contemporary Muslim American life in Texas. It illuminates the dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and...

This comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings ofConfucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient timesto the present today. * Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance ofConfucius s teachings drawing parallels between...

World Religions in Practice introduces five of the world's great religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and explores how they are lived and expressed in custom, ritual, and symbol. A major new textbook exploring the world's...

The first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary field written by an internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movement This is the first book-length introduction to a growing and influential interdisciplinary...

Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. Explores the development of...

This lively introduction offers a complete overview of the main Asian religions, their traditions and contemporary relevance, and how they are lived and practiced today. * Provides readers with an all-embracing introduction to Asian religions, covering...

This cool, clear-sighted comparative study has no theological axe to grind. It offers a trusty thematic guide to the figureheads of three of the largest religions in the world. * The comparative approach is descriptive and even-handed, highlighting both...

In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates...

This Reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847104858Author Yoshihiro NikaidoFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint V&R UnipressPublisher V&R UnipressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459424Author Tracy PintchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438451923Author David Edward JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183280716Author Muthusamy VaradarajanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Wisdom TreePublisher Wisdom TreeWeight(grams) 774g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438441993Author Peter J. ColumbusFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in 'classical' languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the...

This is a Comprehensive Survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalities. Spanning a period of 11 centuries starting from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438463155Author Barbara A. HoldregeFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

In The Road to Enlightenment, Yogmata Keiko Aikawa shares her own experiences and the wisdom she's gained from her 45-year study of yoga, meditation and healing arts. Her hope is that readers will find answers to their questions about how to live a true...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559392181Author Karl BrunnholzlFormat HardbackPage Count 984Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book provides a window to the life and culture of the Kazakh people who live in China. The work summarizes Kazakh political history, social organization, ethnographical aspects of nomadism, linguistics, and Chinese national policy. To this array of...

Conversion, Identity, and Power examines how the introduction of the church as a new social institution affects social exchanges, power relationships, and social identity in the Tagal communities. A. Sue Russell uses resources, control of resources, and...

In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and...

This book presents the fundamental principles of the Jain karma doctrine through a fictional account of the relationship between a guru and his American student. As the story unfolds, the guru instructs the student on how 'karmic debt' is incurred as the...

Drawing from sacred scriptures, world religions, literature, philosophy and psychology, this monograph explores them as universal sources of religious experience and mysticism. It systematically establishes the similarities and differences between them...

Understanding the Religions of the World offers a new approach to the study of religion which moves away from the purely descriptive and instead helps students understand how religions actually work . Covering all the main faith traditions, it combines...

Taking its title from Karl Marx's description of religion as the world's "logic in a popular form," this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and...

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135117849, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license.Japanese "new religions" (shinshukyo) have used various...

This comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings of Confucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient times to the present today. Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance of Confucius's teachings - drawing parallels...

The striking parallels between Derrida's deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This...

This is the study of a small group of Tibetan Buddhists called the Nyishangba who have maintained an egalitarian culture, where women own land and have equal rights, including in social and religious institutions, and where the usual subordination of...

This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi...

ASIAN RELIGIONS "A unique introduction to Asian religions, combining the scholarly rigor of an established historian of Asian religions with the willingness to engage empathetically with the traditions and to suggest that readers do the same."Joseph A...