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Author : Hanns-Peter Schmidt
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Indo-Iranian Mitra Studies written by Hanns-Peter Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitra Ara
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433102509
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions written by Mitra Ara and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions traces the roots of the belief in life after death from the earliest religious beliefs of the Indo-European people, through its first textual emergence among the Indo-Iranians. Tracing the Indo-Iranian concepts of the nature and constitution of man, with special reference to the doctrine of the Soul and its transmigration, the book demonstrates the profound nature of the physical, ethical, spiritual, and psychological ideals embodied in these thought systems as preserved in the Indian and Iranian scriptures. The central issue was death and the journey to the afterlife. Exploring the characteristic features of Indo-Iranian religions provides a better understanding of the development of eschatological beliefs in later religions in the same way that the Zoroastrian apocalyptic beliefs point to genetic historical relations among Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. This comparative study enriches our understanding of the antecedents of afterlife beliefs and creates enthusiasm for further in-depth research into the Indo-Iranian religion as a system, acknowledging its genetic historical connections with both earlier and subsequent traditions. Eschatology in the Indo-Iranian Traditions has wide-ranging appeal to upper undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative religion, Asian studies, philosophy, and Indian and Iranian studies.
Author : Various
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136836020
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Indo-Iranian Studies written by Various and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life the Shams-ul-Ullema devoted himself to advancing the Zoroastrian Faith, not only as a priest and teacher, but also as a writer. This volume of papers is authored by an international group of scholars and covers the history, philosophy, literature and language of Persia and the Indo-Iranians.
Author : Various
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136836012
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Indo-Iranian Studies (RLE Iran B) written by Various and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life the Shams-ul-Ullema devoted himself to advancing the Zoroastrian Faith, not only as a priest and teacher, but also as a writer. This volume of papers is authored by an international group of scholars and covers the history, philosophy, literature and language of Persia and the Indo-Iranians.
Author : Juri P. Stojanov
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300082533
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Other God written by Juri P. Stojanov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs to the age-long teachings of dualism. Integrating political, cultural, and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems, recreating in vivid detail the diverse worlds of their striking ideas and beliefs, their convoluted mythologies and symbolism. Reviews of an earlier edition: "A book of prime importance for anyone interested in the history of religious dualism. The author's knowledge of relevant original sources is remarkable; and he has distilled them into a convincing and very readable whole."--Sir Steven Runciman "The most fascinating historical detective story since Steven Runciman's Sicilian Vespers."--Colin Wilson "A splendid account of the decline of the dualist tradition in the East . . . both strong and accessible. . . . The most readable account of Balkan heresy ever."--Jeffrey B. Russell, Journal of Religion "Well-written, fact-filled, and fascinating . . . has in it the making of a classic." --Harry T. Norris, Bulletin of SOAS
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Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Indo-Iranian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112415302
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday written by J. C. Heesterman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday".
Author : Georges-Jean Pinault
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 295708600X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Vedica written by Georges-Jean Pinault and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in a series dedicated to the important contributions of Prof. Georges-Jean Pinault to Indo-Aryan studies. The book gathers over twenty of his significant publications on Vedic linguistics and etymological problems, both in French and English. It includes complex issues and detailed discussions about phonetics and morphology of both Old Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian languages and deals with the etymology of prominent theonyms. It will be of utmost interest to anyone interested in the history of Indo-Aryan languages, Vedic poetics, Indian culture and Proto-Indo-European comparative linguistics.
Author : William W. Malandra
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816611149
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion written by William W. Malandra and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans H. Hock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110809710
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies written by Hans H. Hock and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Indo-European Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861719409
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)
Download or read book How Much is Enough? written by Richard K. Payne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive outpouring of consumer products available today might alone lead one to ask "How much is enough?" But at the same time, if we allow ourselves to see the social, political, economic and environmental consequences of the system that produces such a mass of "goods," then the question is not simply a matter of one's own personal choice, but points to the profound interconnectedness of our day to day decisions about "How much is enough?" The ease with which we can acquire massive quantities of food, clothing, kitchenware, and various electronic goods directly connects each of us with not only environmental degradation caused by strip mining in West Virginia, and with sweat shops and child labor in India or Africa, but also with the ongoing financial volatility of Western capitalist economies, and the increasing discrepancies of wealth in all countries. This interconnectedness is the human environment, a phrase intended to point toward the deep interconnection between the immediacy of our own lives, including the question of "How much is enough?," and both the social and natural worlds around us. This collection brings together essays from an international conference jointly sponsored by Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley. The effects of our own decisions and actions on the human environment is examined from several different perspectives, all informed by Buddhist thought. The contributors are all simultaneously Buddhist scholars, practitioners, and activists - thus the collection is not simply a conversation between these differing perspectives, but rather demonstrates the integral unity of theory and practice for Buddhism.
Author : Mehdi Marashi
Publisher : Ibex Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 093634735X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Persian Studies in North America written by Mehdi Marashi and published by Ibex Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two articles by leading scholars on the state of the study of Persian literature. Four of the articles are in Persian. These articles were dedicated to Professor Mohammad Ali Jazayery upon his retirement.
Author : F. S. Naiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190875348
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Soldier, Priest, and God written by F. S. Naiden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first life of Alexander the Great to explore his religious experience, to put his experience in Egypt and Asia on a par with his Macedonian upbringing and Greek education, and to explain how the European conqueror became a Moslem saint"--
Author : Jarrod Whitaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755701
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Strong Arms and Drinking Strength written by Jarrod Whitaker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent, and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of manhood.Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of social, economic, and political relationships.Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices, and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient India.
Author : Jarrod L. Whitaker Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions Wake Forest University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199857644
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Strong Arms and Drinking Strength : Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India written by Jarrod L. Whitaker Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions Wake Forest University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent, and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of manhood. Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of social, economic, and political relationships. Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices, and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient India.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226481913
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Religion, Empire, and Torture written by Bruce Lincoln and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia. Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in the cosmos and their moral status in relation to others? Why did they feel called to intervene in the struggle between good and evil? What was their sense of historic purpose, especially their desire to restore paradise lost? And how did this lead them to deal with enemies and critics as imperial power ran its course? Lincoln shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice and brought the Persians unprecedented wealth, power, and territory, but also produced unmanageable contradictions, as in a gruesome case of torture discussed in the book’s final chapter. Close study of that episode leads Lincoln back to the present with a postscript that provides a searing and utterly novel perspective on the photographs from Abu Ghraib.
