14,687円 The Social Life of Tibetan Biography explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Sh...

11,772円 Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by...

8,224円 In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights activists and is regularly discussed in dealings...

330円 Within Hinduism a large number of personal gods (Ishvaras) are worshipped as murtis. These beings are significantly powerful entities known as devas. The exact nature of belief in regard to each deity varies between differing Hindu denominations and philosophies. Often these beings are depicted i...

142円 L’irrequietudine del tutto, e il forte odore della creazione. Il sorgere degli Dei, la creazione del mondo, la nascita dell’uomo, il Diluvio Universale. L’indifferenza dei grandi Dei, gli Annunaki, le rivendicazioni dei piccoli Dei, gli Igigu, l’immensità di Tiamat, la potenza di Marduk, l...

2,000円 Dieses Buch ist Lesestoff für Lebenshungrige! Denn die "sieben Worte", die Jesus in den Stunden vor seinem Tod sprach, sind Wegweiser zum Leben. Sie zeigen, wie Beziehungen gelingen, Hoffnung überdauert, Sehnsüchte gestillt werden und man den Weg nach Hause findet. Es geht nicht ums Jenseits, son...

1,500円 "Nun nicht ich, sondern Christus lebt in mir." (Gal 2,20). So könnte das Motto von Ian Thomas heißen. Es ist unmöglich, aus eigener Kraft Gottes Geboten zu entsprechen. Doch Christus lebt in uns. IanThomas zeigt in diesem weltbekannten Buch, wie Christen die Auferstehungskraft existenziell erfahr...

1,800円 London, 1741. Gesundheitlich am Ende, finanziell ruiniert und trotz früherer Erfolge vereinsamt, fristet Georg Friedrich Händel sein Leben in tiefer Verzweiflung. Die Quelle, aus der sein musikalisches Schaffen hervorging, scheint versiegt zu sein. Doch da fällt ein Manuskript in seine Hände, das...

13,099円 Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...

2,786円 A clarion call for interfaith dialogue in the U.S., this “splendid exposition of non-Christian approaches to God . . . encourages an increased religious literacy that . . . will contribute richness and diversity to our national identity” (Publishers Weekly) In this tenth-anniversary edition of En...

662円 An ecumenical anthology, Thoughts on the East gathers Merton’s essential definitions of the religions that so much interested himーTaoism, Buddhism (in many forms, but especially Zen), Sufism, and Hinduism. Unified by Merton’s belief that East and West share “a unity of outlook and purpose, a com...

7,561円 Taking into account the long history and wide range of Confucian Studies, this book introduces Confucianism - initiated in China by Confucius (551 BC–479 BC) - primarily as a philosophical and religious tradition. It pays attention to Confucianism in both the West and the East, focussing on the t...