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Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226322971
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Inner Conflict of Tradition written by J. C. Heesterman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226322998
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Inner Conflict of Tradition written by J. C. Heesterman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361377
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Samnyasa Upanisads written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more. Beginning with an analysis of the historical context that gave rise to Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies, Patrick Olivelle moves on to elucidate the meaning of renunciation--the central institution of holiness in most Hindu traditions--and the function and significance of the various elements that constitute the rite of renunciation. The Samnyasa Upanisads will be an unparalleled source of information and insight for students of Hinduism and Indian eticism, mysticism, and holiness.
Author : J. C. Heesterman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004094673
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Ritual, State, and History in South Asia written by J. C. Heesterman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this "Festschrift" extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.
Author : H. Patrick Glenn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019966983X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Legal Traditions of the World written by H. Patrick Glenn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, Islamic law, common law, Hindu law and Confucian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples. The concept of legal tradition is explained as non-conflict in character and compatible with new and inclusive forms of logic.
Author : Christian H. Bull
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370846
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus written by Christian H. Bull and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus , Christian H. Bull argues that the actual authors behind the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus were Hellenized Egyptian priests in charge of small groups practicing spiritual exercises, initiatory rituals, and devotional hymns.
Author : Angela R. Burt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003815154
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Leading the Hare Krishna Movement written by Angela R. Burt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues of leadership and succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) which was founded in by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966. After the founder’s death in 1977, the movement was led by a group of gurus in a "zonal system" until their authority was challenged and reformed in the mid-1980s. At the heart of the book is an exploration of the developments, conflicts, and defining characteristics of leadership in ISKCON in this decade. Themes of hierarchy, status, power and authority, and the routinisation of charisma are shown to be keys to understanding the events of the time. With careful analysis of interviews and documentary evidence, the research offers a unique insight into ISKCON as an organisation and the broader religious community in which ISKCON is located. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of new religious movements and those concerned with religious leadership.
Author : Peter Langford
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390391
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition written by Peter Langford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition.
Author : Robert N. Bellah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070445
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Axial Age and Its Consequences written by Robert N. Bellah and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first classics in human history—the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages—appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, the Analects of Confucius and the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of the Buddha—all of these works came down to us from the compressed period of history that Karl Jaspers memorably named the Axial Age. In The Axial Age and Its Consequences, Robert Bellah and Hans Joas make the bold claim that intellectual sophistication itself was born worldwide during this critical time. Across Eurasia, a new self-reflective attitude toward human existence emerged, and with it an awakening to the concept of transcendence. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter through human thought and action. Bellah and Joas have assembled diverse scholars to guide us through this astonishing efflorescence of religious and philosophical creativity. As they explore the varieties of theorizing that arose during the period, they consider how these in turn led to utopian visions that brought with them the possibility of both societal reform and repression. The roots of our continuing discourse on religion, secularization, inequality, education, and the environment all lie in Axial Age developments. Understanding this transitional era, the authors contend, is not just an academic project but a humanistic endeavor.
Author : Vasudeva Rao
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125022978
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Living Traditions in Contemporary Contexts written by Vasudeva Rao and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a monastic institution the Madhava Matha of Udupi (Udipi) in Southern Karnataka as a site of the formation of religious opinion, of monastic training, and practice, and the transmission of knowledge. The author brings both sociological and textual perspectives to bear on his work.
Author : Jóhann Páll Árnason
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004132825
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Civilizations in Dispute written by Jóhann Páll Árnason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a critical survey of current debates on the "clash of civilizations," goes on to discuss classical and contemporary approaches to civilizational theory, and concludes with an outline of a conceptual framework for comparative analysis.
Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371433
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Great Transformation written by Karen Armstrong and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time. In one astonishing, short period – the ninth century BCE – the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Historians call this the Axial Age because of its central importance to humanity’s spiritual development. Now, Karen Armstrong traces the rise and development of this transformative moment in history, examining the brilliant contributions to these traditions made by such figures as the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Ezekiel. Armstrong makes clear that despite some differences of emphasis, there was remarkable consensus among these religions and philosophies: each insisted on the primacy of compassion over hatred and violence. She illuminates what this “family” resemblance reveals about the religious impulse and quest of humankind. And she goes beyond spiritual archaeology, delving into the ways in which these Axial Age beliefs can present an instructive and thought-provoking challenge to the ways we think about and practice religion today. A revelation of humankind’s early shared imperatives, yearnings and inspired solutions – as salutary as it is fascinating. Excerpt from The Great Transformation: In our global world, we can no longer afford a parochial or exclusive vision. We must learn to live and behave as though people in remote parts of the globe were as important as ourselves. The sages of the Axial Age did not create their compassionate ethic in idyllic circumstances. Each tradition developed in societies like our own that were torn apart by violence and warfare as never before; indeed, the first catalyst of religious change was usually a visceral rejection of the aggression that the sages witnessed all around them. . . . All the great traditions that were created at this time are in agreement about the supreme importance of charity and benevolence, and this tells us something important about our humanity.
Author : Brigitte Cazelles
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600043571
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Modernité au Moyen Age written by Brigitte Cazelles and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315519
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book How the Brahmins Won written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia.
Author : Elizabeth Colson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329324
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Contract written by Elizabeth Colson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635421160
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Freud Along the Ganges written by Salman Akhtar and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2006 Gradiva Award A collection of new and previously-published essays that sheds light on the intersections between psychoanalysis and Indic Studies. While Indian academics and clinicians have been familiar with psychoanalysis for many decades, they have kept this Western model of the mind separate from the spiritual and philosophical traditions of their own country. Freud Along the Ganges bridges this important lacuna in psychoanalytic and Indic studies by creating a new theoretical field where human motives are approached not only psychoanalytically but also from the perspective of the teachings of Buddha, Tagore, Ghandi, and Salman Rushdie. The authors of this collection show how the insights of these Indian masters give a new force to the Freudian discovery by providing a basis to better understand the social and psychological Indian makeup. The book begins by questioning the applicability of the psychoanalytic method to non-Western cultures. It then traces the history of the psychoanalytic movement in India from its onset while it emphasizes the intricate overlap between Indian existential and mystical traditions and psychoanalysis. Freud Along the Ganges offers a unique study of the ways that Indian thought and psychoanalysis illuminate and enrich each other.
Author : Paul Post
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042906983
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Modern Pilgrim written by Paul Post and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of a relatively long history of pilgrimage research in a Dutch theological setting. It is intended as a report for an international audience on this long-running programme. Two lines are followed in the book. The first is the track of liturgical studies, in which an historical, European ethnological and anthropological approach has predominated. The second is a social science track, with specific content coming from psychology of religion. The combination of these two lines has been extremely fruitful. In addition to results of various surveys of contemporary pilgrimage practice and the expansion of research into ritual and cultural context in which modern pilgrims find themselves, special attention is also bestowed on historiographic issues involved in orienting pilgrimage research, and its theoretical and methodological aspects. The places of pilgrimage examined here are Wittem, Dokkum and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Banneux in Belgium, Lourdes and La Salette in France, and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The central question which informs the whole study is to what extent one can perhaps speak of a new type of pilgrim today, the "modern pilgrim".
