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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys Evan R. Firestone 9780367200190
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of... -
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders by Author Moshe Idel 9789637326035
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $54.45Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the... -
Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India by Martha Ann Selby 9780195127348
Booksplease Price: $33.06This book presents new English translations of 150 erotic poems composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit. The poems are derived from large... -
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary by Georg Feuerstein, PhD 9780892812622
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for... -
Acts of Theft by Arthur A. Cohen 9780226112503
Booksplease Price: $34.21"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief-and yet all the while it is the mind that is... -
Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy by Anais Spitzer 9781441100207
Booksplease Price: $53.90This is an examination of Derrida's work on myth and language, offering a postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth. In "Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy", Anais N. Spitzer examines... -
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders by Moshe Idel 9789637326028
RRP: $152.22Booksplease Price: $134.68Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the... -
Handbook of Romanian Literature by Stephen Henighan 9789004737631
RRP: $175.44Booksplease Price: $143.11The Handbook of Romanian Literature illuminates the richness of Romanian history through the evolution of literary forms, from 16th-century religious tracts to modern works available in English by... -
The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology by Daniel Dubuisson
Booksplease Price: $37.28In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that "religion" as a discrete... -
The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology by Daniel Dubuisson 9780801873201
Booksplease Price: $67.78In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that "religion" as a discrete... -
Off with Her Head!: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz 9780520088405
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.59Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head. The female... -
Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 by C. G. Jung
Booksplease Price: $129.76In May 1956, in his eighty-second year, Jung first discussed with Gerhard Adler the question of the publication of his letters. Over many years, Jung had often used the medium of letters to... -
Notes from the Other Side of Night: From Communism to a Fragile Freedom Juliana Geran Pilon 9781967613267
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.80A lyrical memoir of living under, and escaping from, anti-Semitism and the tyranny of communism."There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget."-Mircea EliadeWith a new Afterword by... -
Spiritual Masters of the World's Religions by Victoria Kennick 9781438444987
Booksplease Price: $33.63Discusses the notion of a spiritual master and looks at examples in a variety of world religions.What is a spiritual master? Spiritual Masters of the World's Religions offers an important... -
Notes from the Other Side of Night: From Communism to a Fragile Freedom Juliana Geran Pilon 9781967613250
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.06A lyrical memoir of living under, and escaping from, anti-Semitism and the tyranny of communism."There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget."-Mircea EliadeWith a new Afterword ... -
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $36.17Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian... -
Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia by Sam D. Gill 9780195115871
Booksplease Price: $45.86This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practised by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get... -
Theorizing About Myth by Robert Alan Segal 9781558491915
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.94For two hundred years the subject of myth its origin, function, and significance has been addressed again and again, first by theologians and philosophers and then by anthropologists, sociologists,... -
Spirit and Art: Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness by Van James
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.93"As an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, 'There must be something more'" (Van... -
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade by Wendy Doniger 9780226156439
Booksplease Price: $52.18"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling... -
To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China by Michael J. Puett 9780674016439
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.68Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the... -
Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies by Richard Saville-Smith 9781350272910
Booksplease Price: $116.84This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical... -
Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies Richard Saville-Smith 9781350272958
Booksplease Price: $40.66This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical... -
Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion by Bryan Rennie 9780791427644
Booksplease Price: $33.63Reconstructing Eliade is a concept-by-concept analysis of the thought of Mircea Eliade and a re-evaluation of his analysis of religion. It illustrates how a thorough familiarity with Eliade's work... -
Religion After Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature by Victor E. Taylor 9780813927626
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the fable as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how... -
Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty Georges Dumezil 9781912808977
Booksplease Price: $32.35A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign. Georges Dumezil's fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome,... -
Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia by Russell T. McCutcheon 9780195166637
Booksplease Price: $71.85In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of... -
Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics by Wendy Doniger
Booksplease Price: $31.23An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of... -
Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia by Sam D. Gill 9780195115888
Booksplease Price: $114.40This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practised by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get... -
Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by Gregory Price Grieve 9781403974341
Booksplease Price: $59.70Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross 9780231167512
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by Gregory Price Grieve 9781349534913
Booksplease Price: $59.70Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses... -
Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion by Yountae An 9781478011880
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $89.77Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the... -
Introducing Religion: Readings from the Classic Theorists by Daniel L. Pals 9780195181494
Booksplease Price: $101.88What is religion? How is it to be explained? Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically describe as religious so deeply affect the human personality and... -
Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh by Stefania Benini 9781442648067
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $57.31Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini... -
The Allure of Decadent Thinking: Religious Studies and the Challenge of Postmodernism by Carl Olson 9780199959839
Booksplease Price: $69.23Carl Olson offers a compelling and provocative argument against the application of postmodern thought to Religious Studies, showing how such radically skeptical thinking undermines, subverts, and... -
Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion by Yountae An
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the... -
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right by Wendy Doniger 9780195395532
Booksplease Price: $49.74Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated... -
The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati by Aditya Behl 9780199842940
Booksplease Price: $56.84Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah...