Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520273494
“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age
Author : Fenella Cannell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822336464
Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.
Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199910928
Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.
Author : T. Isaac Tambyah
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Hindu hymns
ISBN : 9788120600256
Being Selections From The Writings Of Tayumana Swamy, Translated Into English With Introduction And Notes.
Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849837619
A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
Author : Anthropological Society of Bombay
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Anthropological Society of Bombay
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Author : Aditya Malik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3110661632
This 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?
Author : Imon Mukherjee
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2019-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Rudraksh is a fictional adventure story about lovers― Rudra and Shivani. Rudra and Shivani are the protagonists of the story. The story starts with Rudra’s birth and keeps moving forward since then. The story unfurls newer characters and twists as Rudra and Shivani survives a breathtaking adventure and finally accomplishes their goal. But is that all? Or they still have things to do?
Author : Amitabh Pal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This decisive account of the role of nonviolence in Islam and Muslim societies, both historically and in current times, chronicles an often-obscured but longstanding pacifist tradition. "Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today provides a rebuttal to general misperceptions about the religion by documenting its rich tradition of nonviolence. To that end, the book examines the sources of Islamthe Qur'an, the main religious text of Islam, and the Hadith, the deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. It contests the prevalent notion that Islam is built on violence in part by illuminating the role of the tolerant, mystical tradition of Sufism in Islam, while at the same time examining the misunderstood place of jihad in the religion. The book is not, however, a historical or theological treatise. Rather, it focuses on the tradition of nonviolence in modern Muslim societies. By spotlighting recent peaceful protest movements in Muslim communities, the book underscores the truly global and multicultural nature of the Islamic tradition of nonviolence. The findings here will be invaluable for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, revealing an alternative tradition both can embrace.
