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The A to Z of Buddhism by Carl Olson 9780810871618
Booksplease Price: £51.20In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion. During its journey... -
Celibacy and Religious Traditions by Carl Olson 9780195306323
Booksplease Price: £37.26If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy. An understanding of celibacy, argues Carl Olson, can be a useful way to view the significance of the human body within a... -
Celibacy and Religious Traditions by Carl Olson 9780195306316
Booksplease Price: £77.10If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy. An understanding of celibacy, argues Carl Olson, can be a useful way to view the significance of the human body within a... -
Religious Studies: The Key Concepts by Carl Olson
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Religious Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible, A-Z resource, defining and explaining key terms and ideas central to the study of religion. Exploring broad and recurring themes which are... -
The Stain of Errors on the Self by Carl Olson 9789004701076
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £99.63Using an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of the self, this study focuses on a gap left by previous philosophers. This shortcoming is related to the nature of the self to commit errors that... -
Hindu Primary Sources: A Sectarian Reader by Carl Olson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04Bringing together texts from a variety of sectarian traditions, this reader provides the broadest selection of primary source Hindu literature available to date. The volume is divided into two major... -
Original Buddhist Sources: A Reader by Carl Olson 9780813535647
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Bringing together essential materials on the origins and development of Buddhist traditions from India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, and Japan, this anthology provides the broadest selection of primary... -
The Many Colors of Hinduism: A Thematic-Historical Introduction by Carl Olson
Booksplease Price: £34.44Conventional approaches to Hinduism typically stress its classical religious tradition with an emphasis on the Brahmin texts and practices. Frequently neglected are the practices of lower caste... -
Indian Asceticism: Power, Violence, and Play by Carl Olson 9780190225322
Booksplease Price: £42.59Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. Power is a by-product of the ascetic path, and is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water... -
Religious Ways of Experiencing Life: A Global and Narrative Approach by Carl Olson
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Religious Ways of Experiencing Life: A Global and Narrative Approach surveys world religions, using the narratives and discourses of each tradition to describe it in its own terms. Carl Olson... -
The Nostalgia for Origins: Religion, Evolution, Cognition and Memory by Carl Olson 9781839990519
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Using the theme of nostalgia for origins, this work proposes to examine the origin of religion within the context of the theory of evolution and the development of the human brain. It is argued that... -
The Mysterious Play of Kali: An Interpretive Study of Ramakrishna by Carl Olson 9781555403409
Booksplease Price: £35.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555403409Author Carl OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Playing in Emptiness: An Introduction to Zen Buddhist Discourse by Carl Olson 9798385216000
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £29.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798385216000Author Carl OlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint -
Playing in Emptiness: An Introduction to Zen Buddhist Discourse by Carl Olson 9798385215997
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798385215997Author Carl OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint -
Religious Studies: The Key Concepts Carl Olson (Allegheny College, USA) 9780415487221
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Religious Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible, A-Z resource, defining and explaining key terms and ideas central to the study of religion. Exploring broad and recurring themes which are... -
The Allure of Decadent Thinking: Religious Studies and the Challenge of Postmodernism by Carl Olson 9780199959839
Booksplease Price: £53.67Carl 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... -
Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy: Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking by Carl Olson 9780791446546
Booksplease Price: £27.36This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and... -
Pattern for Romance by Carla Olson Gade 9781426752711
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426752711Author Carla Olson GadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space by Prof Dr Knut A. Jacobsen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to...
The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell by Robert Ellwood 9780791443064
Booksplease Price: £26.07The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and...
Was Hinduism Invented?: Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion by Brian K. Pennington 9780195166552
Booksplease Price: £109.82The appearance of "religion" as a category describing a set of practices and beliefs allegedly an aspect of all cultures dates only from the modern period, emerging as Europe expanded trade abroad...
Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature: Encounters between East and West by Jae-Seong Lee 9781498519229
Booksplease Price: £51.20This study advances contemporary postmodern/poststructural critical theory, literary criticism in particular, with the help of Mahayana-especially Ch'an/Seon (Chinese and Korean Zen)-Buddhist thought...