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Sacrifice and Rebirth

Author : Mark Cornwall
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388494
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice and Rebirth written by Mark Cornwall and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This “splintered war memory,” where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039230
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions written by Wendy Doniger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebirth of a Nation

Author : Jackson Lears
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061940968
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Rebirth of a Nation written by Jackson Lears and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World War I, Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his game—at once engaging and tightly argued." —The New York Times Book Review “Dazzling cultural history: smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane, just, and peaceful possibilities.” —The Washington Post In the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, widespread yearning for a new beginning permeated American public life. Dreams of spiritual, moral, and physical rebirth formed the foundation for the modern United States, inspiring its leaders with imperial ambition. Theodore Roosevelt's desire to recapture frontier vigor led him to promote U.S. interests throughout Latin America. Woodrow Wilson's vision of a reborn international order drew him into a war to end war. Andrew Carnegie's embrace of philanthropy coincided with his creation of the world's first billion-dollar corporation, United States Steel. Presidents and entrepreneurs helped usher the nation into the modern era, but sometimes the consequences of their actions failed to match the grandeur of their hopes. Award-winning historian Jackson Lears richly chronicles this momentous period when America reunited and began to form the world power of the twentieth century. Lears vividly captures imperialists, Gilded Age mavericks, and vaudeville entertainers, and illuminates the roles played by a variety of seekers, male and female, from populist farmers to avant-garde artists and writers to progressive reformers. Some were motivated by their own visions of Christianity; all were swept up in longings for revitalization. In these years marked by wrenching social conflict and vigorous political debate, a modern America emerged and came to dominance on a world stage. Illuminating and authoritative, Rebirth of a Nation brilliantly weaves the remarkable story of this crucial epoch into a masterful work of history.

Karma and Rebirth

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120826090
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism

Author : Carl McColman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028642666
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism written by Carl McColman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a complete idiot's guide to understanding paganism and examines the basic principles of shamanism, druidism, and Wicca as well as the fundamentals of meditation, magic, divination, and spiritual healing.

Narrating Karma and Rebirth

Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916408
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Karma and Rebirth written by Naomi Appleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia, examining portrayals of the different realms of rebirth, the potential paths and goals of human beings, and the biographies of ideal religious figures. Appleton also deftly surveys the ability of karma to bind individuals together over multiple lives, and the nature of the supernormal memory that makes multi-life stories available in the first place. This original study not only sheds light on the individual preoccupations of Buddhist and Jain tradition, but contributes to a more complete history of religious thought in South Asia, and brings to the foreground long-neglected narrative sources.

Renaissance and Rebirth

Author : Brian Ogren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047444817
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance and Rebirth written by Brian Ogren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to angelic transmigration. As a complex and changing doctrine, metempsychosis gives us a well-placed window for viewing the complex and dynamic contours of Jewish thought in late fifteenth century Italy; as such, it enables us to evaluate Jewish thought in relation to non-Jewish Italian developments. This book addresses the problematic question of the roles and achievements of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions. "Throughout the book, Ogren demonstrates the scholarly pertinacity and intellectual and linguistic versatility that crosscultural intellectual history requires. He finds and digests the essential studies and obscure remarks, in modern scholarship as well as from the fifteenth century, that substantiate the argument, and he constantly strives to discern larger patterns. This research will reward scholars who follow his leads." - Arthur M. Lesley, in: Renaissance Quarterly 63.3 (2010)

Raw

Author : Belle Aurora
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495307355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Raw written by Belle Aurora and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman falls for her stalker and a complicated relationship begins.

The Passion of Infinity

Author : Daniel Greenspan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110211173
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Passion of Infinity written by Daniel Greenspan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is conceived, and the nature of its relation to reason, Aristotle eliminates the concept of an irrationality which reason cannot in principle dissolve. The book culminates in an extensive reading of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, who, in a critical retrieval of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle, prescribe their apparently pathological age a paradoxical task: develop a finite form of subjectivity willing to undergo an unthinkable thought ‐ allow the transcendence of a god to enter into the mind as well as the marrow, to make a tragic appearance in which a limit to the immanence of human reason can again be established.

Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity

Author : Jon Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134792719
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity written by Jon Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are: * Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt * burying the Jewish dead * Roman religion and Roman funerals * Early Christian burial * the nature of martyrdom. Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death, burial and the afterlife in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship between social change and attitudes to death and dying.

Exploring Karma and Rebirth

Author : Nagapriya
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1907314725
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Karma and Rebirth written by Nagapriya and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Karma & Rebirth helps us to unravel the complexities of these two important but often misunderstood Buddhist doctrines. This thought-provoking book clarifies these traditional Buddhist teachings, examines them in relation to their cultural origins, considers how they are still relevant today, and offers an imaginative reading of what the teachings could mean for us now. Above all, Exploring Karma & Rebirth insists that, to be of enduring value, these doctrines must continue to serve the overriding aim of Buddhism: spiritual awakening.

Breakdown and Rebirth, 1914 to the Present

Author : Thomas Garden Barnes
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819123664
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Breakdown and Rebirth, 1914 to the Present written by Thomas Garden Barnes and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1972 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological history of Modern Europe from 1914 to the present.

Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others

Author : George W. Stocking
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299107337
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others written by George W. Stocking and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1987-03-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats a theme of major importance in both the history and current practice of anthropological inquiry. Drawing its title from a poem of W. H. Auden's, the present volume, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict, and Others (the fourth in the series) focuses on the emergence of anthropological interest in "culture and personality" during the 1920s and 1930s. It also explores the historical, cultural, literary, and biological background of major figures associated with the movement, including Bronislaw Manlinowski, Edward Sapir, Abram Kardiner, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Born in the aftermath of World War I, flowering in the years before and after World War II, severely attacked in the 1950s and 1960s, "culture and personality" was subsequently reborn as "psychological anthropology." Whether this foreshadows the emergence of a major anthropological subdiscipline (equivalent to cultural, social, biological, or linguistic anthropology) from the current welter of "adjectival" anthropologies remain to be seen. In the meantime, the essays collected in the volume may encourage a rethinking of the historical roots of many issues of current concern. Included in this volume are the contributions of Jeremy MacClancy, William C. Manson, William Jackson, Richard Handler, Regna Darnell, Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, James A. Boon, and the editor.

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Author : Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377966
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions written by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma 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 Traditions offers a harmony of approach and an underlying set of methodological assumptions: a corpus of definitions of karma, a dialectic between abstract theory and historical explanation, and an awareness of logical oppositions in theories of karma. No “solution” to the paradox of karma is offered, but the volume as a whole presents a consistent and encompassing approach to the many different, often conflicting, Indian statements of the problem. Broad in scope and richly detailed, this book demonstrates the impossibility of speaking of “the theory of karma” and supplies the basis for further study. Exploring methodological issues arising in the study of a non-Western system of soteriology and rebirth, the contributors question the interaction of medical and philosophical models of the human body, the incorporation of philosophical theories into practical religions with which they are logically incompatible, and the problem of historical reconstruction of a complex theory of human life. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

New Birth or Rebirth?

Author : Ravi Zacharias
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307561410
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book New Birth or Rebirth? written by Ravi Zacharias and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate truth. The destiny of souls. The individual heart. Can Krishna and Jesus agree on anything? This is what Subramaniam, a real-life Hindu of the twentieth century, wonders as he enters a fictitious conversation between two religious figures who have changed the lives of millions. As Jesus and Krishna respond to each other’s view of life and the afterlife, they speak words straight from the texts of Christianity and Hinduism and straight into the soul. Subramaniam asks Jesus and Krishna hard questions about faith. Meanwhile, a fictional character, Richard, eavesdrops, asking himself the most important question of all: Does it really matter what I believe?

Tapta-Marga

Author : Walter O. Kaelber
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068140
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Tapta-Marga written by Walter O. Kaelber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-09-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive study yet made of tapas and of asceticism during the Vedic period. It also explains three other essential components of Vedic thought: sacrifice, homology, and knowledge. These concepts, along with tapas and initiation symbolism, reveal the heart of Vedic religion. therefore, this study presents a history of Vedic religion, organized around the central building blocks of that tradition.

Alive in Christ

Author : Robert L. Millet
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 : 9781573452632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Alive in Christ written by Robert L. Millet and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: