Catálogo de libros: Otras religiones

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  • The Dermis Probe
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers.In his prefac...
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    17,28 €

  • A House of Weeping
    David A. Bosworth
    David Bosworth draws on modern research on weeping to understand references to the petitioner’s tears in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern prayers. Weeping reflects helplessness and being overwhelmed with emotion, and tears can motivate others to help. Similarly, people turn to prayer at times of extreme distress; therefore, weeping and prayer reinforce one another as str...
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    26,80 €

  • A House of Weeping
    David A. Bosworth
    David Bosworth draws on modern research on weeping to understand references to the petitioner’s tears in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern prayers. Weeping reflects helplessness and being overwhelmed with emotion, and tears can motivate others to help. Similarly, people turn to prayer at times of extreme distress; therefore, weeping and prayer reinforce one another as str...
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    39,30 €

  • Redefining Ancient Orphism
    Radcliffe G. Edmonds III / Radcliffe GEdmonds III
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    40,88 €

  • The Dermis Probe (Pocket Edition)
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers.In his prefac...
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    10,81 €

  • An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism
    Raymond Brady Williams
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    41,69 €

  • The Dermis Probe
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers.In his prefac...
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    15,56 €

  • The Dermis Probe (Pocket Edition)
    Idries Shah
    A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers.In his prefac...
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    10,81 €

  • An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism
    Raymond Brady Williams
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    120,26 €

  • Of Life and Health
    Alexis Bekyane Tengan
    An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different...
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    163,51 €

  • L. Annaeus Cornutus
    George Boys-Stones
    The first-century CE North African philosopher Cornutus worked in Rome as a philosopher and is best known today for his surviving work Greek Theology, which explores the origins and names of the Greeks gods. However, he was also interested in the language and literature of the poets Persius and Lucan and wrote one of the first commentaries on Virgil. This book collects and tran...
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    46,39 €

  • L. Annaeus Cornutus
    George Boys-Stones
    The first-century CE North African philosopher Cornutus worked in Rome as a philosopher and is best known today for his surviving work Greek Theology, which explores the origins and names of the Greeks gods. However, he was also interested in the language and literature of the poets Persius and Lucan and wrote one of the first commentaries on Virgil. This book collects and tran...
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    36,97 €

  • Love’s Last Madness
    Darshan Singh / Barry Lerner / Harbans Singh Bedi
    Love’s Last Madness, a translation of selected poems from Darshan Singh’s magnum opus Matā‘-e Nūr, sings of the torments and ecstasies a lover of God experiences on the journey to divine realization. Remarkable for masterfully fulfilling his worldly responsibilities while immersing himself in his mystic quest, Darshan Singh (1921–1989) was a renowned spiritual teacher with tens...
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    17,86 €

  • Oriental Magic
    Idries Shah
    Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan. Profusely illustrated, the book is the product of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions. Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution to cultural understanding have made it a key text for anyone interested ...
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    19,33 €

  • Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
    Juan Javier Rivera Andía
    Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies whose lives and worlds are undergoing processes of transformation, adaptation, and deterioration, this volume offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands. The resulting ethnographies - depicting non-human entitie...
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    190,50 €

  • Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference
    Sam Gill
    Differences—cultural, religious, racial, gender, age—are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns from personal relationships to global politics. Creative Encounters argues for the higher goal of appreciating difference as being essential to creativity and innovation, even if often experienced as stressful and complex. ...
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    128,99 €

  • Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage
    Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity. ...
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    129,03 €

  • Oriental Magic
    Idries Shah
    Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan.Profusely illustrated, the book is the product of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions.Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution to cultural understanding have made it a key text for anyone interested in...
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    19,33 €

  • The Play of Awakening
    Shambhavi Sarasvati
    How can you stay motivated in your spiritual practice from day-to-day? What is the most fruitful way to work with your teachers? What detours and obstacles might slow you down?  How do spiritual communities function as a core practice? What roles do grace and devotion, longing and loneliness play as you walk your path? How can you both live and die well? The Play of Awakening i...
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    21,36 €

  • The Reality Sutras
    Shambhavi Sarasvati
    The Reality Sutras is a handbook of teachings about the nature of the self and reality from the perspective of Trika Shaivism. Trika Shaivism, also known as Shaiva Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism, is a direct realization tradition from Northwest India. It shares with Dzogchen, Daoism, and Chan Buddhism an emphasis on direct, embodied experience and on uncontrived naturalness as the...
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    14,70 €

  • Wisdom of the Idiots
    Idries Shah
    In Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots, the ‘idiots’ are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable. The exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose.On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological processes, and the s...
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    15,61 €

  • Divination and Human Nature
    Peter Struck / Peter T. Struck / Peter TStruck
    Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination-the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as primitive superstitions. In this book, Peter Struck reveals instead that such phenomena...
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    45,85 €

  • Strength to Strength
    Essays in this book honor Professor Shaye J. D. Cohen. Contributors address a range of topics focusing especially on issues of identity, cultural interchange, and Jewish literature and history in antiquity. ...
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    89,23 €

  • Strength to Strength
    Essays in this book honor Professor Shaye J. D. Cohen. Contributors address a range of topics focusing especially on issues of identity, cultural interchange, and Jewish literature and history in antiquity. ...
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    110,94 €

  • Wisdom of the Idiots (Pocket Edition)
    Idries Shah
    In Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots, the “idiots” are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable. The exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose.On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological processes, and the s...
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    9,31 €

  • The Studia Philonica Annual XXX, 2018
    The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE). Each volume includes articles on aspects of Hellenistic Judaism written by experts in the field, bibliography, and book reviews. 3 ...
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    53,77 €

  • The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books
    Colleen Manassa Darnell / John Coleman Darnell
    Darnell and Darnell present the first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian books of the Netherworld, originally composed during the middle of the second millennium BCE. These texts contain philosophical and theological speculation about the inner workings of the cosmos, particularly the events of the solar journey through the twelve hours of the night. The Neth...
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    107,83 €

  • The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books
    Colleen Manassa Darnell / John Coleman Darnell
    Darnell and Darnell present the first, complete English translation of the ancient Egyptian books of the Netherworld, originally composed during the middle of the second millennium BCE. These texts contain philosophical and theological speculation about the inner workings of the cosmos, particularly the events of the solar journey through the twelve hours of the night. The Neth...
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    99,01 €

  • Books and Readers in the Premodern World
    Karl Shuve
    This book examines the role books played in shaping the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions in the ancient world. Each tradition is associated with certain holy books—the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the Qur'an. In this collection of essays the contributors consider how new technologies, new materials, and new cultural encounters allowed these books to spread, to...
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    31,23 €

  • Books and Readers in the Premodern World
    Karl Shuve
    This book examines the role books played in shaping the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions in the ancient world. Each tradition is associated with certain holy books—the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the Qur'an. In this collection of essays the contributors consider how new technologies, new materials, and new cultural encounters allowed these books to spread, to...
    Disponible

    43,73 €