Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors) Brills Encycloped...Daugiau...
Many myths that are told again and again are myths of decision-making, such as for instance the decision of Adam and Eve in Paradise to eat the forbidden fruit, the choices of Paris and Heracles, or Buridans donkey who starves between two equally at...Daugiau...
English summary: The book examines decision-making as a contingent form of social action that takes multiple forms in different cultural contexts and is subject to historical change. Case studies ranging from medieval Europe to present-day India addr...Daugiau...
For more than a century, anthropologists and psychiatrists engage in conversations concerning relationships between embodied well-being and religion. Taking account of shifting meanings of religion in global modernities, the included essays reveal...Daugiau...
Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. A person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, for example, and in order to be healed performs a ritual involving a...Daugiau...
Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. A person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, for example, and in order to be healed performs a ritual involving a...Daugiau...
Covering the entire breadth of the previous five installments, volume VI of Brills Encyclopedia of Hinduism is an essential reference guide offering systematized insight into the terminology of this comprehensive work of scholarship. In addit...Daugiau...
The six-volume Brills Encyclopedia of Hinduism -with first volume published in 2009 and completed in 2014 with Vol. 6- is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essa...Daugiau...
The goal of the six-volume Encyclopedia is to present current scholarship on all aspects of Hindu religious traditions at a depth and breadth not possible in a less ambitious reference. For this penultimate volume, scholars of religion both in India...Daugiau...
This is the fourth of five volumes constituting a comprehensive reference on the Hindu religious traditions. The articles are in-depth critical research studies arranged by theme--making this reference far superior to an encyclopedia of brief entries...Daugiau...
This is the third volume of a five-volume reference that aims to offer in-depth yet clear and accessible information, for a broad audience of scholars, students, and general readers. The approach encompasses the mosaic and network of Hindu tradition...Daugiau...
Written by impressively credentialed scholars in Europe, North America, and Australia, the second volume of this major reference (five volumes are planned) offers lengthy entries on sacred texts and languages, ritual traditions, arts, and concepts in...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Brills Encyclopedia of Hinduism is part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 2: South Asia (HO2), which publishes scholarly reference works, bibliographies, and research tools pertaining to the political, economic, social, linguistic, and re...Daugiau...
Hinduism is a religion consisting of a conglomeration of rituals, religious narratives, art, music, institutions, traditions, theologies, artifacts, and activities, according to the introduction of this very fine resource. This richness is welcomed...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Dec-2003, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631395790)
Diese Studie untersucht die Konstituierung von lokaler indischer Kultur in der Gegenwart im Sinne einer gegenseitigen Durchdringung von Religion und kulturellem Gedächtnis. Die Halbinsel Kacch im Nordwesten des indischen Subkontinents war Sitz eines......Daugiau...
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has died in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilder...Daugiau...
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has died in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilder...Daugiau...
