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Book SynopsisOffering authoritative coverage of an increasingly popular area, this is a stimulating introduction to both the life and times of the great Sufi thinker, Rab'ia of Basra, and to the contribution made by other women mystics to the rich heritage of Islam. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from the words of tenth-century thinkers to the works of modern scholars, Margaret Smith provides a clear and accessible guide, not only to Rab'ia's remarkable life, but also to her asceticism, her miracles, and her teachings and writings. In addition to this, a perceptive survey traces t he roles of other female saints in Islam, from Naf sa, who recited the Qur'an six thousand times prior to her death, to the Indian princess F tima, who renounced her royal duties to become a renowned mystic.With its suggestion that the autonomy of these great female figures could serve as a religious and social model for today's Muslim women, this is a sensitive and readable survey, which balances historical information with an interesting contemporary perspective.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the legendary Rajput chieftain Hammira Chauhan, the king of the impregnable fortress of Ranthambore in southern Rajasthan who died in 1301 CE after a monumental battle against Alauddin Khalji, the sultan of Delhi. This singular event reverberates through time to the point of creating a historical and cultural region that crystallizes through copious texts composed in different genres and languages (Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Rajasthani, English) in shifting religious and political contexts, medieval as well as modern. The main poetical-historical work composed in Sanskrit, the Hammira-Mahakavya (‘great poem’) by the Jaina poet Nayachandra Suri (15th century), is propelled by a dream in which the dead king urges the poet to write about his deeds. Can history with its preoccupation for the factual, begin in a dream? What does it mean to think about history and time via the imagination? Is time, whether past, present or future linked to imagination? Do imagination, time, and history arise together? What are the implications of thinking of history as something that appears in our experience? What does it mean to write a history as a historical being in whom diverse temporalities intertwine in the here and now?

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Book Synopsis'A major publishing event, not only in Buddhist studies but also for those working in the area of interfaith encounter and theology of religions.' Japanese Journal of Religious StudiesIn todayâs globalized world, religious diversity has become one of the strongest challenges to the self-understanding of any major religious tradition, provoking two interdependent questions. How does it see itself in the light of others? And, how does it see others in the light of its own teachings? While the Abrahamic religions are often accused of a predominantly intolerant and exclusivistic attitude to the religious âotherâ, Eastern religionsâand Buddhism in particularâenjoy the reputation of being naturally tolerant, absorbing, and even pluralistic towards competing faiths. Some thinkers (from David Hume to Jan Assmann) understood religious intolerance as an inevitable property of monotheism, supposedly absent in the case of non-theistic or polytheistic religions. More recent research, however, has suggested that this impression, part of a whole cluster of Western clichÃs, is false. Buddhism isâand has beenâas much convinced of its own superiority as any other faith, and has also been involved in various inter-religious tensions and violent conflicts. The ways, however, in which Buddhists have thought about the religious âotherâ, and practically dealt with it, display peculiar features, which do indeed differ profoundly from what we find in the Abrahamic faiths. Yet today, Buddhism must address the question whether it can arrive at a genuine appreciation of religious diversity, and recognize other religions as different but nevertheless equally valid.This new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Religious Studies series enables users to make sense of this and other dizzying questions. It brings together the best thinking on Buddhismâs relationship with other faiths and provides a one-stop collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship.Fully indexed and with a general and volume introductions, newly written by the editor, which carefully locate the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context, Buddhism and Religious Diversity is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by specialists and scholars working in related areas as a vital research tool.

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Book SynopsisDated 1909, A dialogue took place between a man and his Lord, stretching beyond the imaginations of all and superseding the works of man Allama Iqbal raises a series of complaints titled; Shikwa. The East was swept back in total astonishment as the controversy had begun. But little did they know that where there is a complaint surely a response will follow and it sure did. 1913 was the year the Allama Iqbal reclaimed his lost glory with the much awaited responce publication of Jawaab-e-Shikwa. It was claimed a ‘masterpiece’. It would be unjust not to translate it and relay such a unique, classical piece of work of Iqbal’s.

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Book Synopsis"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal", the latest collection of "Spalding" papers, celebrates the work of Ninian Smart in bringing together papers by some of the most eminent scholars within this field. The papers are concerned with cultural, religious, political or textual exchange and encounter, and therefore in concepts of rupture, revival, restoration, reformation and reformulation. The title of this book comes directly from Professor Klaus Klostermaier's paper which argues that the real Hindu Renaissance is happening now. However, the title also embraces the contemporary problematic of the study of Indian religions. There cannot ever have been a time when the scholarly study of Indian religions has been under such scrutiny or more politically, culturally and religiously sensitive. The papers in section one urge a major rethinking of academic paradigms. The papers in the second section focus on texts, contexts and ways of understanding. Vastly different in style, period and approach, they nevertheless cumulatively develop sensitivity to textual continuities, to the purposes of commentators, and the contemporary creative reinterpretation of texts and their application to real life. The third section is concerned with cultural and religious encounter and exchange, transformation, restoration, revival, and reformation. The fourth section focuses on the performative, experiential, and expressive. There are papers on the Hindu imagination and imaginary Hinduisms; religion, the media and a multi-modal future; ritual performance and gender; and art and the aesthetic imagination.Table of ContentsPreface by Karel Werner Introduction and Acknowledgements Section 1 Challenging Paradigms Klaus Klostermaier Hinduism- Hindutva-Hindu Dharma Hans Bakker The Hindu Religion and War Ninian Smart and Knut Jacobsen Is Hinduism an Offshoot of Buddhism? Karel Werner The Philosophy of Religions from the Perspective of Indian Religions Section 2 Text and Context Dermot Killingley Faculties, Breaths and Orifices: some Vedic and Samkhya Notions of the Body and Personality David Bastow Time and the Sarvastavadins Jacqueline Suthren Hirst Images of amkara: Understanding the Other Kathleen Taylor Arthur Avalon among the Orientalists: Sir John Woodroffe and the Re-Interpretation of Tantra Section 3 Encounter, Revival and Reform Geoffrey Samuel Shamanic Powers, Village Religion and Esoteric Exchanges: How Far is Tantra a Specifically Indian Phenomenon David Gellner Theravada Buddhist Revival in Nepal: Reflections in the Early Years Theodore Gabriel Brahmanisation of Dravidian Religions: The Case of the Multafan Cult of North Malabar Matthew Clark The Curious History of the Dasanami-Samnyasis Ron Geaves From Totapuri to Maharaji (Prem Rawat)? Reflections on a Lineage (Parampara) Section 4 Renewing the World: Sacred Performance, Sacred Art David J. Smith The Hindu Imagination and Imaginary Hinduisms Anna S. King Kumbha Mela and the Media Alleyn Diesel Walking in the Mother's Footsteps: Dravidian Virgin Goddesses as Empowering Role Models for Women Richard Shaw The Mediaeval Saivite World portrayed on the Prakara Wall of the Mallikarjuna Temple of Srisailan Christopher Aslet Height and Size in Indian Iconography Biographical notes

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Book SynopsisThese are the original records of the First Congress of Religions, an epoch-making event in the history of religions. Organized by the Parliament of Religions to coincide with the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, it provided the very first encounter of Asian religions with the West. Reprinted here is the full record of the Congress published by the Official Publishers of the World’s Columbian Exposition Catalogue in 1893. It includes nearly 150 black-and-white pictures.Table of ContentsA New Testament Woman. A Religion of Facts Christianity. America’s Duty to China. Argument for God. Argument for Immortality. Being of God. Belief and Ceremonies of Zoroaster. Bible; What it has taught. Buddhism. Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism, As it Exists in Siam.Buddhism, Man’s Relation to God.Buddhism, What it has done in Japan. Catholic Church and Scriptures. Catholic Church, Relation to Poor. Certainties of Religion. Character and Degree of the Inspiration of Scriptures. Christ the Unifier of Mankind. Christianity and Evolution. Christianity and Negro.Christianity and the Social Question. Christianity as a Social Force. Christianity as Interpreted by Literature. Church and Labor. Comparative Study of the World’s Religions. Concessions to Native Religions, ldea, Having Special Reference to Hinduism. Confucianism. Cooperation of Women and Men. Crime and the Remedy. Elements of Universal Religion. End of Parliament. Errors About Jews.Essentials of Religion. Evangelism in America. Extracts from Koran. Faiths, Harmonies and Distinctions in the Theistic Teachings of the Various Historic. Genesis and Development of Confucianism. Greek Philosophy and the Christian Religion. Grounds of Sympathy and Fraternity. Hinduism. Hinduism as a Religion. Importance of the Study of Comparative Religions. Incarnation Idea in History and in Jesus Christ. Incarnation of God in Christ. Influence of Ancient Egyptian Religions, on Other Religions. Influence of Religion on Women.Influence of the Hebrew Scriptures. International Arbitration. International Justice and Amity. Japan, Christianity, its Present Condition and Prospects. Law of Cause and Effect Taught by Buddha. Letter From Somerset, Lady Henry. Man From a Christian Point of View. Man’s Plaee in Nature. Marriage Bond, The Catholic Church and Mohammedanism and Christianity, Points of Contact. Moral Evidence of Existence God. Music, Emotion and Morals. Need of a Wider Conception of Revelation. Needs of Humanity Supplied by Catholic Church. North American, Religion of Indians. Only Possible Method of Religious Unification.Opening of Parliament. Orthodox Greek Church. Plea for Toleration. Practical Service of the Science of Religions to the Cause of Religious Unity. Prize Essay Confucianism.Rational Demonstration of the Being of God. Reconciliation, Vital Not Vicarious. Relation Between Anglican Church and Church of First Agos.Relation Between Religion and Conduct.Religio Scientiae. Religion and Criminal and Erring Claeses.Religion and the Love of Mankind. Religion and Wealth. Religion Essentially Characteristic of Humanity. Religion of Pekin. Religion of the World. Religions, What the Dead Have Bequeathed to the Living.Religious as Distinguished From Moral Life. Religious Duty to Negro. Religious Mission of the English Speaking Nations. Religious State of Germany. Rest Day, The Divine Element in Weekly. Sacred Books of the World as Literature. Saviour of the World Christ. Science of Religion, Aid to, From Philosophy. Scriptures, Truthfulness of Scriptures. Scriptures, What they have Taught Scriptures. Shintoism. Soul and its Future Life. Spirit and Mission of the Apostolic Church of Armenia.Spiritual Forces in Human Progress. Study of Comparative Theology. Supreme End and Office of Religion. Swedenborg and the Harmony of Religions. The Catholic Church and Negro Race. The Civic Church. The Contact of Christian and Hindu Thought. The Essential Oneness of Ethical Ideas, Among all Men. The Ethics and History of Jaina. The Influence of Social Condition. The Message of Christianity to Other Religions. The Present Outlook of Religions. The Principles of Brahmo-Somaj. The Relation of Historic and its Future Judaism. The Religious Intent. The Religious Training of Children. The Reunion of Christendom. The Social Office of Religious Feeling. The Spiritual Ideas of Buddha Brahmo-Somaj. The Sympathy of Religions. The Ultimate Religion. The Voice of the Mother of Religions on Social Question. The Work of Social reform in India. The World’s Debt to Buddha. Theology of Judaism. The Outlook for Judaism.What Christianity has Wrought for America.Woman and the Pulpit. Women of India. What Judaism has done for Woman. World’s Debt to America.

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Book SynopsisThe word possession is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. This book features essays by anthropologists in the Americas to explore the nexus found at the heart of the idea of being possessed.Trade Review"Spirited Things is an ambitious and provocative work that casts a brilliant light over one of the more complex and critical issues in anthropology. It brings spirit possession into the heart of anthropological theory, revealing its central place in the 'genealogy of modernity.'" (Stefania Capone, National Center for Scientific Research and School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)"

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Book SynopsisIn this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrificethe complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the firethe element of destructionat the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as self-sacrificer who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unit

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women - part of one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa - through their songs and dances, dream narratives and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM.

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Book SynopsisAlthough ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that describe it, the people who experience it, and the traditions that support it.

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Book SynopsisLooks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. Megan Sanborn Jones examines four pageants in the US - the Hill Cumorah Pageant in New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant.Trade ReviewContributes to a richer understanding of religious performance by exploring aspects of a faith that isn't known for being liturgical and whose other sacred ritual performances are closed to outsiders-analysis of present-day Mormon practice is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature . . . An important and highly readable book that will interest readers across several different fields."" - Tona Hangen, Worcester State University""Reveals the distinctive relationship between theology and theater in the Mormon church. Through compelling and astute analyses of several annual pageants, Jones demonstrates how elements such as space, acting style, and spectacle are deployed in order to strengthen the relationship between the living and the dead, both for actors and spectators . . . this book [will be] accessible to a broad audience and a significant contribution to scholarship on religion and theater."" - Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College

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Book SynopsisFeatures the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Songs ANNAMAYYA RUDRAKAVI KSETRAYYA SARAN GAP ANI Poem to Lord KONKANESVARA Notes to the Text Notes to the Songs Index of Refrains

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Book SynopsisMaking the Gods Speak presents a comprehensive accounting for the processes of divine revelations. Focusing the bulk of his analysis on spirit-writing, Vincent Goossaert offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.Trade ReviewGoossaert offers a compelling narrative about how spirit-writing and revealed texts were significant forces shaping the religious life of late imperial China…Excellent. -- Natasha Heller * Material Religion *

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Book SynopsisThe first book to present a historical overview of the Mormon military experience. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell the unique story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced war and military service and their teachings concerning participation in armed conflict.Trade Review"We overuse the terms unique and overdue, but this study of the Mormon military experience is truly both. Fleek and Freeman bring to the fore a fascinating and intricate history of the often-troubling and always-complicated involvement of Mormonism with the force of arms, from the LDS Church literally operating its own army for many decades in the nineteenth century to becoming an ardent advocate and supporter of the armed forces of the United States in the twentieth. Their work ranges effectively from the stories of individual Mormons in uniform to analyses of the institution’s interface with military affairs, events, and issues."—Gene A. Sessions, coauthor of Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War"The Mormon Military Experience is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the relationship between religion, the military, and war in the United States. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell a story, supported by extensive archival research and engaging narrative, of a quintessentially American religious group and its interaction with a quintessentially national institution as it moves from exceptional in the late nineteenth century to mainstream in the twentieth. Historians of the American military, American religion, and of LDS history will all find tremendous value in this volume."—Jacqueline E. Whitt, author of Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam WarTable of Contents Series Editor’s Preface Preface: The Genesis of an Idea Introduction Book One: Nineteenth-Century Conflicts and Mormon Exceptionalism 1. The Mormon Way of War: Teachings and Practice 2. A Civil Conflict in Missouri 3. The Nauvoo Legion: Forging a Mormon Army 4. Mormon Defiance: The Mormon Territorial Militia and the Utah War 6. The American Civil War: LDS Service and Postwar Frustration 7. The Saints and Indians at War 8. Wars with Spain and the Philippines, 1898-1902: The End of Mormon Exceptionalism Book Two: Twentieth-Century Conflicts and the End of Mormon Exceptionalism 9. American Expedition 1946 and Saints in Mexico 10. World War I: Mormons Enter the Mainstream Ranks 11. World War II: Saints in the Global War 12. Early Cold War Conflicts: The Rise of the International Church 13. Southeast Asia: Defending Democracy and Expanding the Church 14. LDS Opposition to MX Missile Basing Epilogue: The Cold War and Beyond Appendix: Medal of Honor Citations World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients Global War on Terrorism Chronology: The Mormon Military Experience, 1820-1896 Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 18

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Book SynopsisDrawing on Dine stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project, Farina King illuminates the mutual entanglement of Indigenous identity and religious affiliation, showing how their Dine identity made them outsiders to the LDS Church and, conversely, how belonging to the LDS community made them outsiders to their Native community.Trade Review"An insightful and fascinating study into the lived experiences of Dine Latter-day Saints. It is important as the fullest examination of that history yet published."—Times and Seasons "In this beautifully rendered autoethnography, Farina King reckons honestly with the injustices of settler colonialism but refuses to grant it a controlling role. Instead, she centers the voices of her own DinÉ family and other DinÉ dÓÓ GÁamalii, Navajo Mormons, showing how they have built lives faithful both to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to DinÉ identity and peoplehood all at the same time."—Tisa Wenger, professor of divinity, American studies, and religious studies at Yale University, and author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom"This history illuminates the complexity of relating simultaneously to DinÉ and Latter-day Saint worlds. Richly textured by oral histories and the history of the author’s family, it attends closely to the diversity of views and practices among DinÉ Latter-day Saints."—Matthew W. Dougherty, author of Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early AmericaTable of Contents List of Images Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saints 2. Gáamalii Bina’nitiní: Missionaries 3. Ólta’ Gáamalii: “Mormon School” 4. Sodizin Bá Hooghan: Church 5. Beyond Diné Bikéyah 6. Red Power at BYU 7. Diné dóó Gáamalii Perspectives Epilogue Appendix: Oral History Interviews and Oral History Sources Glossary Notes

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Book SynopsisMonteiro.Trade ReviewAn essential, and provocative, starting point for study of its topic. -- Andrew F. Walls Theological Book Review 2008 A near classic... Bastide's study remains central to anyone interested in the topic. -- John A. Coleman Theological Studies 2008

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Book SynopsisThe belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled ‘lost tribes of Israel’-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. Matthew Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America.

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Book SynopsisExplores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the US and the Gülen movement in Turkey. The book traces the public activities and activism of these two influential and controversial actors at the state, political society, and civil society domains.

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Book SynopsisTonghak, or Eastern Learning, was the first major new religion in modern Korean history. Founded in 1860, it combined aspects of a variety of Korean religious traditions. Because of its appeal to the poor and marginalized, it became best known for its prominent role in the largest peasant rebellion in Korean history in 1894, which set the stage for a wider regional conflict, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894â1895. Although the rebellion failed, it caused immense changes in Korean society and played a part in the war that ended in Japan's victory and its eventual rise as an imperial power. It was in this context of social change and an increasingly perilous international situation that Tonghak rebuilt itself, emerging as ChÅndogyo (Teaching of the Heavenly Way) in 1906. During the years before Japanâs annexation of Korea in 1910, ChÅndogyo continued to evolve by engaging with new currents in social and political thought, strengthening its institutions, and using new communication technolo

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