University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691059419
The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the 20th century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his book...
Format:hardback Pages:204
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520212145
In this text, the author turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. The author asks...
Format:paperback Pages:380
USD $28.33
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691070506
This work questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. Through his desire to obey God at all costs...
Format:paperback Pages:334
USD $37.66
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691058344
Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) was one of the greatest mystics of all time. Through the richness of his personal experience and the constructive power of his intellect...
Format:paperback Pages:454
USD $39.79
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520229181
An analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East, this text integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.
Format:paperback Pages:320
USD $35.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691034553
This text undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the 8th to 10th centuries...
Format:hardback Pages:308
USD $76.29
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520209879
This work looks at the origins, meaning and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African...
Format:hardback Pages:226
USD $49.75
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691139463
"In the Heat of the Sun" and "Devils on the Doorstep" are two of the finest and most honored Chinese films ever made. "Body in Question" is the first book to thoroughly examine these groundbreaking works and one of the first books in English to study individual Chinese films in depth...
Pages:176
USD $27.70
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231128049
The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China since the early 1980s. This text examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC...
Format:hardback Pages:272
USD $80.81
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231108690
With a history stretching back to ancient India, Buddhism has influenced American culture since the American Transcendentalist movement in the 1830s and 40s. Only in the past few decades...
Format:hardback Pages:336
USD $34.10
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691026800
Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought...
Format:hardback Pages:245
USD $44.61
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691058351
Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination...
Format:paperback Pages:286
USD $37.66
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520220867
Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. The author engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals...
Format:paperback Pages:316
USD $31.65
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520211193
Dzong-ka-ba's (1357-1419) "The Essence of Eloquence" is the one book on wisdom that the Dalai Lama carries with him wherever he goes. Composed by Tibet's great yogi-scholar and founder of the Ge-luk-ba school...
Format:hardback Pages:542
USD $61.14
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520232402
An exploration of the Hindu goddess Kali, this text uses scriptural history, temple architecture, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic criticism...
Format:paperback Pages:356
USD $31.65
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691026053
Release Date: 1 Feb 2009
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs...
Format:paperback Pages:368
USD $33.59
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691011004
This work argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. It locates the heroine within a network of relations between male and female...
Format:hardback Pages:288
USD $64.00
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520063396
Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book, the author sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.
Format:paperback Pages:281
USD $28.41
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520233225
The "Huang Di nei jing su wen", known familiarly as the "Su wen", is a text of ancient Chinese medicine. This text offers a translation of the entire work...
Format:hardback Pages:526
USD $107.29
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691029795
The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error - the Extirpation of idolatry - that occurred in the 17th- and 18th-century Archdiocese of Lima are shown in this book as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on the period 1640-1750...
Format:hardback Pages:346
USD $108.61
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691088501
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian...
Format:hardback Pages:336
USD $56.90
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520213920
The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics...
Format:hardback;audio CD Pages:121
USD $64.68
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520210240
An examination of an intriguing figure in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater...
Format:hardback Pages:400
USD $119.44
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691044927
During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity - a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden...
Format:paperback Pages:304
USD $30.35
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691115535
The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists. Jews...
Format:hardback Pages:304
USD $39.40
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231109673
Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the Muslim community in the United States and know little about the religion itself, despite Islam's increasing importance in international affairs and the rapid growth in the number of Americans who call themselves Muslims. This text introduces the basic tenets of the Muslim faith...
Format:paperback Pages:270
USD $31.65
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691002552
Marriage today might be a highly contested topic, but certainly no more than it was in antiquity. Ancient jews, like their non-Jewish neighbors...
Format:hardback Pages:434
USD $76.93
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691019222
This volume presents an abridged edition of Erwin Goodenough's 13-volume work, an attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the Greco-Roman period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe...
Format:paperback Pages:376
USD $34.23
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231118163
In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in east central China: written on strips of bamboo that had miraculously survived intact since 300 BC...
Format:hardback Pages:256
USD $26.88
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691005201
For many centures, Hindus have believed that the religious images they place in temples and shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support...
Format:paperback Pages:350
USD $30.35
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691028811
Lin Zhao'en (1517-1598) set out to popularize Confucianism by combining Confucian studies with Daoist inner alchemical techniques and Buddhist Chan philosophy into something he called the "Three in One Teachings". Despite periods of clandestine activity since its inception...
Format:hardback Pages:420
USD $73.05
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691032672
For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities - and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it...
Format:hardback Pages:504
USD $69.82
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231123297
Taking as it's starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, this study probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents...
Format:paperback Pages:356
USD $12.61
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231125727
The rise of a popular Islamic reform movement in Egypt has had considerable influence beyond its borders, as events since September 11, 2001...
Format:hardback Pages:300
USD $61.59
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231125734
The rise of a popular Islamic reform movement in Egypt has had considerable influence beyond its borders, as events since September 11, 2001...
Format:paperback Pages:300
USD $22.61
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231110815
This text charts the evolution of the Baha'i faith - a millennarian movement founded by the 19th-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah - and its transformation against the backdrop of modernity...
Format:paperback Pages:278
USD $26.99
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520210165
This account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. It examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than 400 years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers...
Format:paperback Pages:382
USD $43.74
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691074955
Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one most striking way - the monks get married. In Neither Monk nor Layman...
Format:hardback Pages:328
USD $57.54
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231115650
These verses contain the oldest surviving expressions of a method for mystical "inner cultivation," which Roth identifies as the basis for all early Taoist texts...
Format:paperback Pages:272
USD $24.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520225749
The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history...
Format:hardback Pages:292
USD $35.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691010908
Tantric Buddhims is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy...
Format:paperback Pages:308
USD $33.07
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691028941
This work examines the ritual origins and religious dimesions of puppetry in Japan. It describes the life, death and rebirth of "awaji ningyo shibai"...
Format:hardback Pages:336
USD $61.42
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520211209
This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. Dzong-ka-ba (1357-1419) is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan philosophers...
Format:hardback Pages:604
USD $71.92
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231120395
If Westerners know a single Islamic term, it is likely to be jihad, the Arabic word for "holy war". The image of Islam as an inherently aggressive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West and can at times appear to be substantiated by current events...
Format:paperback Pages:264
USD $12.61
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691070544
This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 CE)...
Format:paperback Pages:336
USD $33.78
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520217072
This work presents and interprets changes in Greek ideas about the dead during the archaic and classical periods, using them to build a picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living...
Format:hardback Pages:352
USD $73.93
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691010984
In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, "Scholastic magic" tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scolasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries...
Format:hardback Pages:276
USD $87.83
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520237988
Chan - more popularly known as Zen - Buddhism has been romanticized throughout its history. This work shows how modern critical techniques make possible a more skeptical...
Format:paperback Pages:237
USD $28.41
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520204171
"Seven Doors to Islam" reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilisation from Morocco to Indonesia...
Format:paperback Pages:350
USD $25.83
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520223912
This work collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals and other creatures who were said to have been both male and female. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections - from mythological...
Format:paperback Pages:210
USD $24.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691004877
Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world...
Format:paperback Pages:232
USD $23.46
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691057699
Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the world...
Format:hardback Pages:258
USD $94.55
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520230620
Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India...
Format:hardback Pages:365
USD $85.95
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520236561
Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India...
Format:paperback Pages:365
USD $35.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691057798
As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe...
Format:paperback Pages:664
USD $39.79
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691044736
Many commentators imagine contemporary China to be monolithic, atheistic and materialist, wholly divorced from its earlier customs. However, this book combines evidence from historical texts and extensive fieldwork to reveal an entirely different picture. Since 1979...
Format:paperback Pages:304
USD $30.35
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691010434
This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension.
Format:hardback Pages:244
USD $59.70
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691089850
Conventional wisdom holds that judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images...
Format:paperback Pages:248
USD $12.25
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520219724
The discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty, one of the recovered texts was the collection "Bodhidharma Anthology"...
Format:paperback Pages:198
USD $28.41
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520088689
Islamic fundamentalism has had a significant impact in nearly every corner of the world in recent years. Bassam Tibi offers a disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics...
Format:hardback Pages:278
USD $59.70
Out Of PrintUniversity Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780231108041
This CD-ROM is designed to be used every day as a source of reflection and elightenment. It provides an interactive divination section. It also offers a guide to the I Ching including its history...
Format:CD-ROM
USD $47.14
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691074603
"The Funeral Casino" is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it...
Format:paperback Pages:336
USD $14.84
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520223943
A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna...
Format:hardback Pages:304
USD $61.42
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520211056
Bringing together 15 years essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism". The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world...
Format:hardback Pages:240
USD $89.57
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520223370
Bringing together 15 years essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism". The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world...
Format:paperback Pages:240
USD $25.83
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520227538
Approximately 13 million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies...
Format:paperback Pages:270
USD $27.12
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520231917
Hannah Rochel Verbermacher, a Hasidic holy woman known as the Maiden of Ludmir, was born in early-19th-century Russia and became famous as the only woman in the 300-year history of Hasidism to function as a rebbe - or charismatic leader - in her own right...
Format:hardback Pages:320
USD $50.39
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520215924
In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
Format:hardback Pages:160
USD $43.74
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University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691091716
Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial...
Format:paperback Pages:480
USD $17.78
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691059501
Islam is frequently characterized as a "religion of the book," and yet Muslims take an almost entirely oral approach to their scripture. Qur'an means "recitation...
Format:hardback Pages:272
USD $62.71
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691059976
In this study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His broad range covers the entire geography of this religion...
Format:paperback Pages:344
USD $32.29
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691115757
The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism...
Format:paperback Pages:340
USD $27.12
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520232600
An insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, this text reveals to Western audiences the details of monastic education...
Format:paperback Pages:416
USD $35.53
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520230347
In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents - deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic...
Format:hardback Pages:636
USD $135.73
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780691029412
Bernard Faure's previous works are well known as guides to some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth...
Format:paperback Pages:352
USD $34.23
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520207585
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, Robert Hymes addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials...
Format:hardback Pages:372
USD $80.01
Out Of Print
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520234901
This volume focuses on the totality of Buddhism in the West, establishing a comparative and theoretical perspective for considering the wide variety of Buddhist traditions...
Format:paperback Pages:388
USD $25.76
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520210868
Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection...
Format:paperback Pages:456
USD $32.29
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520231054
This volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The book reveals Confucianism as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the 19th century.
Format:hardback Pages:350
USD $85.95
Out Of Print
University Presses of California Columbia and Princeton
ISBN:9780520231382
This volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The book reveals Confucianism as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the 19th century.
Format:paperback Pages:350
USD $35.53
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