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Magic in the Ancient Greek World by Derek Collins
$57.95 AUD
Category: Occulture | Series: Blackwell Ancient Religions Ser.
Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient ...Show more
Nine Ways of Bon - Excerpts from gZi-brjid by David Snellgrove (Translator, Editor)
$51.95 AUD
Category: Bon Religion | Series: Religion
A study of Tibetan religion. To practising bonpos, Bon simply means the true religion of Tibet, while to Tibetan Buddhists, Bon refers to the false teachings and practices that were prevalent before Buddhism became the dominant religion under the Kings. The present study resulted from a period during wh ...Show more
On Understanding Islam - Selected Studies by Wilfred C. Smith
$40.00 AUD
Category: Second Hand Titles | Series: Religion and Reason Ser.
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, ...Show more
On Understanding Islam - Selected Studies by Wilfred C. Smith
$174.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Religion and Reason Ser.
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, ...Show more
Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords .. by Alexus McLeod
$69.95 AUD
Category: Aztec, Mayan & Toltec | Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion Ser.
Philosophy of the Ancient Maya is an investigation of some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. It covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative inv ...Show more
Principal Upanishads by Nikhilananda, Swami
$47.99 AUD
Category: Upanishads | Series: Eastern Philosophy and Religion Ser.
""His translation is faithful and economical and it is embedded in notes and explanations which clarify the meaning, wherever it might be ambiguous for a western reader."" - The Times (London) Literary Supplement.""The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the exposition is authentic, instructi ...Show more
Psychology Religion & Spirituality by WATTS, FRASER
$38.95 AUD
Category: Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing | Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society Ser.
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex and m ...Show more
Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow-saints in Islam by Margaret Smith
$41.95 AUD
Category: Sufism | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion Ser.
Rabi'a, a female Sufi saint, was born in 717 CE and released from slavery to lead a life in pursuit of purity and perfect union with God. Her teachings and the numerous miracles attributed to her have made her an influential and revered figure in Sufi theology. This authoritative 1928 biography of the s ...Show more
Record of Linji by SASAKI, R
$52.95 AUD
Category: Zen Buddhism | Series: Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture Ser.
The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen's basic standpo ...Show more
Record of Linji - Hardcover by SASAKI, R F
$89.00 AUD
Category: Zen Buddhism | Series: Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture
The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen's basic standpo ...Show more
Religion Around John Donne by ECKHARDT, J
$82.00 AUD
Category: Christianity | Series: Religion Around Ser.
In this volume, Joshua Eckhardt examines the religious texts and books that surrounded the poems, sermons, and inscriptions of the early modern poet and preacher John Donne. Focusing on the material realities legible in manuscripts and Sammelb nde, bookshops and private libraries, Eckhardt uncovers the ...Show more
Religion and the Meaning of Life by WILLIAMS, CLIFF
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society Ser.
As humans, we want to live meaningfully, yet we are often driven by impulse. In Religion and the Meaning of Life, Williams investigates this paradox - one with profound implications. Delving into felt realities pertinent to meaning, such as boredom, trauma, suicide, denial of death, and indifference, Wi ...Show more