Dai Des Records of Ritual is a collection of 40 texts purporting to record the teachings of ancient Chinese rulers as well as those of Confucius, his disciples, and his later followers on topics about creating society and ordering the world....Daugiau...
In 1948, Vietnams great 20th Century mystic Pham Cong Tac (1890-1959) began a series of sermons making Caodaisms claims to universal salvation the clearest. In only two decades, Caodaism had stamped its fast-growing presence on the nation. With po...Daugiau...
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old...Daugiau...
The present volume offers a new account of the activities of International Association for the History of Religions during the Cold War. By focusing on the IAHR membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1957, the book reconsiders the impact...Daugiau...
Scholars of medieval European languages present the first anthology with translation into a Western European language of all known medieval texts that refer to Slavic pre-Christian religion. They include texts in Greek, Latin, South Old Church Sl...Daugiau...
Focusing on the fiercest period of European imperialism, the decades before World War I, historians and social scientists present texts illustrating or describing the impact of colonialism and imperialism on religion worldwide. They cover religio...Daugiau...
A major work of early Japanese Christianity, written by Fukansai Habian (1565-1621), the Myotei Dialogues (1605), is the first complete English translation of one of the most important works of early Japanese Christianity written by a Japanese conver...Daugiau...
From the preface: The two scholars in correspondence are Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883-1959), virtually the foremost scholar of religion of the twentieth century, and Herbert Jennings Rose (1883-1961), a leading Canadian-British expert in Greek and Roma...Daugiau...
Drower (1879-1972) was a self-taught British scholar and novelist who became recognized as an authority on the Middle East generally, but particularly of the Mandaeans, the last living Gnostic Baptists of Iraq and Iran. Also a specialist in the Manda...Daugiau...
Bringing together Hiltebeitels major essays on the the Mahabharata, the Ramaya a, and the south Indian cults of Draupadi and Kutta avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-r...Daugiau...
Bringing together Hiltebeitels major essays on the the Mahabharata, the Ramaya a, and the south Indian cults of Draupadi and Kutta avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-r...Daugiau...
Someone took meticulous notes of 62 sermons delivered over a two-year period (1679-1680) by Isaac Foster, Ben Woodbridge, John Whiting, Caleb Watson, and Thomas Cheever, in Hartford, Connecticut. These notes constitute the Hartford Sermon Notebook. M...Daugiau...
A specialist on Zoroastrianism, Williams (Iranian studies and comparative religion, U of Manchester) offers a new edition of the 1599 Persian poem that underlies so much Zoroastrian consciousness in India but that so few have read in the original or...Daugiau...
This fascinating history - the first of its kind on the development of a local Bahai community in Iran - is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and schol...Daugiau...
