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A common religious practice in Buddhist Thailand is asking "holy things" for help in return for an offering. These holy things include local spirits, Hindu gods, and famous Buddha images, which Thai people worship all in the same way… Meer
The Yoga of Love offers a new translation of the dramatic love poem the Rāsa Līlā, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring… Meer
Beset by scandals from its earliest days, the House of David defied the odds to become one of the longest-lasting intentional communities in United States history. Drawing upon an extensive archive of primary source documents, many encountered for the first time, author Evelyn Sterne reveals a… Meer
Temple worship in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon Church, is kept virtually secret from outsiders. And even Mormons themselves might find certain aspects of worship confusing. Holiness to the Lord offers a comprehensive overview of Mormon temple worship… Meer
Sarah Kathleen Johnson introduces the concept of occasional religious practice as a novel yet intuitive way to describe, analyze, and respond to this widespread pattern. Meer
Drawing on an extraordinarily large body of hitherto unexamined archival material, this book reconstructs all the activities of the Roman Inquisition in the year 1626. Meer
Going Off Script offers a novel explanation of what it means to act lifnim mi-shurat ha-din (within the line of the law). Tracing the development of this phrase within classical rabbinic literature, the book intervenes in longstanding debates over what this phrase signals about the relationship… Meer
Fruit of Her Hands considers how specialized roles for women are reflected in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, focusing on four--midwives, diviners, weavers, and sex workers. Virnelson investigates the practice of each role in the ancient world and its corresponding portrayal in biblical texts. Meer
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue… Meer
This book is a study of Candrakirti's philosophy and of his place in the history of the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy as it has developed in India, Tibet, and in modernity. Meer
Richard Kent Evans tells the story of MOVE, a small, little-known, mostly African American group that emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department--working in concert with federal and state law enforcement--attacked a home that MOVE members shared in West… Meer
The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes elaborate commentary on the sages' own teachings. The Rise of Talmud argues that the development of this commentary, later called Talmud, transformed the… Meer
This book discusses the ideologies of secularism and fundamentalism in the setting of the religious traditions of India, covering Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. It has a new preface where the author revisits the debate on secularism in India and contemporarises it for the reader… Meer
This book examines the entire range of sacred literature produced between the sixteenth- and nineteenth century to give a comprehensive account of Sikhism. Dealing with the historical evolution of the Sikh tradition, it discuss issues like self-image, identity, and ideology. Meer
Through the use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts, this volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system, popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture in the historical and contemporary… Meer
Popular knowledge generally operates with the notion that 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' as polarized religious identities have existed from the moment Muslims entered northern India in the eleventh century. The essays for this volume interrogate this idea… Meer
Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithic traditions in which they are now regarded, thus Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, or indeed in temporal blocks: ancient, medieval, modern… Meer
The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This English translation is the first based on modern critical editions… Meer
This is a comprehensive introduction to the principal forms and orders of Western liturgy between about 900 and 1700, explaining their nature and historical origin, and presenting in detail the contents and orders of principal services as well as additional and special forms of worship. Meer
The medieval popes conducted a vigorous correspondence with monarchs, clergy, and lay people all over western Europe. Only a small proportion of the original letters sent and received have survived. In this volume over a thousand surviving letters have been brought together, analysed, and discussed… Meer
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