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Making a Mantra Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
ISBN: PB: 9780226767062, ISBN: HB: 9780226766904, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way in which it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and H...
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£24,00
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Chandrabati's Ramayan
ISBN: HB: 9789385932946, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. I...
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Hindu Tantric World An Overview
ISBN: PB: 9780226424095, ISBN: HB: 9780226423937, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
Tantra occupies a unique position in Western understandings of Hindu spirituality. Its carnal dimension has made its name instantly recognizable, but this popular fascination with sex has obscured its philosophical depth and ritual practices, to say...
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Spiritual Despots Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule
ISBN: HB: 9780226368672, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Revolution and the widespread effects of "priestcraft" rhetoric that grew out of it, but J. Barton Scott, in "Spiritual Despots", reveals an unexamined piece of that story: how Protestant...
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Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
ISBN: PB: 9780226051659, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to des...
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£13,00
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Critical Terms for Religious Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226791579, ISBN: HB: 9780226791562, University of Chicago Press, August 1998
430 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 table
A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop musi...
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