Transitions and Transformations in the History of Religions
Author : Reynolds
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900437857X
Author : Reynolds
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 900437857X
Author : Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004061125
Author : David Dean Shulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195148169
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1319242596
The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. For reasons that varied widely, leaders and thinkers from Mexico to the Ottoman Empire and from China to the Indian subcontinent sought to reform existing religions, develop new spiritual practices, promote innovative texts, and, on occasion, even create new religions. Presenting documents from different regions and different religious and philosophical traditions, including Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Confucianism, this volume allows students to explore and analyze these varied transformations. A general introduction introduces the framework for examining the chapter case studies, while the chapters provide context, a group of primary sources, and a set of questions to consider. Useful pedagogic supports include headnotes to the documents, a chronology, a set of broader questions to consider that help students compare transformations, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Author : David Shulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195349334
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world, however it is understood, in highly expressive and specific ways. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays--by such distinguished scholars as Wai-yee Li, Janet Gyatso, Wendy Doniger, Christiano Grottanelli, Charles Malamoud, Margalit Finkelberg, and Moshe Idel--study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.
Author : Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Bedford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780312458867
The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. For reasons that varied widely, leaders and thinkers from Mexico to the Ottoman Empire and from China to the Indian subcontinent sought to reform existing religions, develop new spiritual practices, promote innovative texts, and, on occasion, even create new religions. Presenting documents from different regions and different religious and philosophical traditions, including Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Confucianism, this volume allows students to explore and analyse these varied transformations. A general introduction introduces the framework for examining the chapter case studies, while the chapters provide context, a group of primary sources, and a set of questions to consider.
Author : Younus Samadzada
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1637101422
This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such as dance, trance, music, song, and language have played in this evolution. The role that leaders play in the evolution of religion is also discussed. Starting from the primitive religions of hunter-gatherer societies in which religion was not part of any institution, the next stages of human life from the agricultural revolution to the modern religions of today are discussed. Among the modern religions discussed are Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Scientology, and numerous others. The reader is further provided with a unique perspective on the potential good and evil aspects of religion and the very reality of the existence of a God or gods, and the possible downfalls of the religious belief system.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : George Foot Moore
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Religions
ISBN :
Author : Crawford Howell Toy
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Mythology
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