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Price: $32.00
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Sale: $41.90
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shail Mayaram
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1997-05-15
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: This study examines the contests over, and reshaping of, the identity of the Meos, a group located between Hinduism and Islam. The theoretical issues discussed relate to kingship, religion, nationalism, violence, ethnicity and identity, and proselytization and resistance.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $35.00
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Manufacturer: Northern Illinois University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Elizabeth Fuller Collins
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Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.536095951
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Publication Date: 1997-10
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Reading Level: 246
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Description: An analysis of the Thaipusam festival of the Hindu Tamils of Malaysia and the vows they make to the god Murugan. It explores the meaning of vow fulfilment as reflected in social, economic and political divisions in the Tamil community, and the practice of ritual as a form of symbolic action.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David H. Turner
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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.899915
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Publication Date: 1999-10
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: Genesis Regained is the fourth book in a series that began with Life Before Genesis (Peter Lang, 1985), and was followed by Return to Eden (Peter Lang, 1996) and Afterlife Before Genesis (Peter Lang, 1997). In this volume, David Turner takes a key concept critical to the Australian Aboriginal way of life, Renunciation, and explores the implications for interpreting other major religious traditions, particularly Judeo-Christianty. Aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam are explored along with the terms of Canadian Confederation and Sunday Morning Hockey. Renunciation is seen as a subordinate subtheme in the major religious traditions and in history.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $11.86
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Manufacturer: Pilgrim Press/United Church Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lesley A. Northup
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Publisher: Pilgrim Press/United Church Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.38082
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Publication Date: 1997-11
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Reading Level: 169
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $32.97
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Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jay H. Bernstein
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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.92
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 209
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Description: This work examines Shamanism and healing practices among the Taman of Borneo. It contributes to contemporary debates in cultural and medical anthropology, the anthopology of religion and magic, ritual, folklore, and Southeast Asian ethnography.
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Price: $165.00
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Sale: $154.55
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.6
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Publication Date: 1997-04-30
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Reading Level: 552
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Description: Religion has experienced growing importance in recent years, and interest in the anthropological study of religion has increased as well. This reference book offers a much-needed overview of the most significant topics and concerns in the field. Chapters by expert contributors examine such matters as snake handling, magic and ritual, shamanism, and the role of religion in particular cultures. Chapters contain extensive documentation, and a bibliography concludes the volume.
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Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Graham Cunningham
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Publisher: NYU Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.7
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Publication Date: 1999-03-01
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Reading Level: 126
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Description: Over the past hundred years the study of religion and magic has changed dramatically, expanding outside the traditional confines of theology and philosophy to become part of modern disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology. Religion and Magic provides a concise survey of some of the most important developments in the study of the sacred during this period of change. The book summarizes the approaches taken to religion and magic by the most significant scholars over the course of the preceding and present centuries. Covering over forty individuals from a wide range of disciplines, it includes Hegel, Marx, Weber, Frazer, Freud, Malinowski, Jung, Durkheim, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, Skorupski, Lévi-Strauss, Lawson, McCauley, Kristeva, and Mary Daly. The volume is the perfect reference tool for students, introducing them to the main theories and debates in a readable and informative manner.
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Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sherry B. Ortner
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3923095496
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Publication Date: 1989-08
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis. At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $117.06
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Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles R. Brooks
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.5512
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Publication Date: 1989-03
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Most Americans know about the "Hare Krishnas" only from encounters in airports or from tales of their activities in the East Village and Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s. This entertaining and sensitive book deepens our knowledge by tracing the paths of those Western Hare Krishnas who eventually traveled to or lived in India. The charismatic leader of the sect, the Indian monk Swami Bhaktivedanta, aimed to save Westerners from what he saw as materialism and atheism by converting them to worship of the Hindu god Krishna. In addition, he hoped that Western disciples would inspire Indians to rediscover their own religious heritage. Charles Brooks describes in full detail the work of the "reverse missionaries" in the town of Vrindaban--which, since it is traditionally considered to be identical with Krishna's spiritual world, is one of the holiest places in India and the site of some of its most engaging rituals. Have the Western Hare Krishnas really become part of Indian culture? Can it be that Indians accept these foreigners as essentially Hindu and even Brahman? Brooks answers in a way that radically challenges our accepted images of Indian social dynamics. Analyzing the remarkable success of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and their temple complex in Vrindaban (where Bhaktivedanta was buried in 1977), Brooks describes the intricate social, economic, and religious relationships between Westerners and Indians. He demonstrates that social rank in the town is based not only on caste but also on religious competence: many Indians of Vrindaban believe, in Bhaktivedanta's words, that "Krishna is for all."
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $21.06
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Manufacturer: Abhinav Pubns
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Gautam Chatterjee
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Publisher: Abhinav Pubns
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.537
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: includes photographs by Sanjoy Chatterjee
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