Sister Reformations III - Schwesterreformationen III
Gegenstand des zweisprachigen Bandes sind die Prozesse, in denen in Deutschland und auf den britischen Inseln aus der reformatorischen Bewegung Institutionen, von der Reformation gepragte Kirchen wurden, sowie die dabei wirksamen Faktoren. Nach einem UEberblick uber die englische und die schottische Reformationsgeschichte werden die Entwicklung der Predigt, des Singens, der Liturgie und ihres Raumes, der Familie, der Geschlechterrollen und des Rechts, die Herausbildung eines neuen Pfarrer- und G...
R?m?nuja, a well known religious figure of the medieval bhakti tradition, is remembered as a philosopher, social reformer and the most important ?c?rya of the ?r?vai??ava community of South India. This book analyses the delineation of R?m?nuja in the ?r?vai??ava hagiographies between twelfth and fourteenth centuries. These early hagiographical illustrations composed within the context of evolving community identity registered a process of canonization and constructed specific historical memories...
Delphi (Civitatum Orbis MEditerranei Studia, #6)
Auf der Grundlage einer Tagung im Jahr 2017 versammelt der Band dreiundzwanzig Beitrage, die das Phanomen des Orakels von Delphi in einer Vielzahl von Perspektiven beleuchten. Nach Beitragen zur Archaologie befassen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren mit dem Orakel selbst und seiner "Funktionsweise"; mit der Rolle Delphis in der griechischen Geschichte und dem Bild des Orakels in der archaischen und klassischen griechischen Literatur; und mit der Rolle Delphis in philosophischen und theologischen (...
The late A.L. Basham was one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian culture and religion. Modeled on his monumental work The Wonder That Was India, this account of the origins and development of classical Hinduism represents a lifetime of reflection on the subject, and offers an intriguing introduction to one of the richest of all Asian traditions. Synthesizing Basham's great knowledge of the art, architecture, literature, and religion of South Asia, this concise history traces th...
India's Spiritual Heritage I
by H H Skandananda Swami and Prof Sabharatnam Krishnaswami
La légende de la descente du Gange (Contes Et Legendes de l'Inde)
by Christine Devin
The Origins of New Testament Theology (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, #440)
In contrast to studies of New Testament theology that ask or assume what it is , this volume investigates where it comes from . In a dialogue with Hans Dieter Betz, the contributors ask about the origins and preconditions of New Testament theology. How did it begin, both in terms of its historical stimuli and in terms of its earliest literary expressions? To what extent, if at all, did early Christians think of themselves as "doing theology”? How did early Christians come to understand their fai...
The Upanisads
The Upanisads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part of the larger Vedic corpus, they offer the reader "knowledge lessons" on life, death, and immortality. While they are essential to understanding Hinduism and Asian religions more generally, their complexities make them almost impenetrable to anyone but serious scholars of Sanskrit and ancient Indian culture. This book is divided into five parts:Composition, au...
From Temple to Museum (Archaeology and Religion in South Asia)
by Salila Kulshreshtha
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different...
The first spiritual biography of Gandhi, whose confidence in the power of the soul changed world history In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, “What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.” While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), near...
Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike, #35)
The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016), Jerusalem (2017), and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the "othering" of w...
Vaikhanasa Mantra Prasna V-VIII (Daivikacatustayam) (Harvard Oriental)
by Howard Resnick
The Vaikhanasas are mentioned in many Vedic texts, and they maintain a close affiliation with the Taittiriya school of the Krsna Yajur Veda. Yet they are Vaisnavas, monotheistic worshipers of Visnu. Generally, Vaisnavism is held to be a post-Vedic development. Thus, the Vaikhanasas bridge two key ages in the history of South Asian religion. This text contains many quotations from ancient Vedic literature, and probably some other older original material, as well as architectural and iconographica...
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient-with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way-and very recent. While some have tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream. Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporar...
A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform.By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent. A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Focusing on two early nineteenth-century Hindu communities, the Brahmo Samaj and the Swamin...
Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to have played a pivotal role in the making of the Mahatma: Shrimad Rajchandra. About the unparalleled influence of this person, Gandhi himself wrote: “I have met many a religious leader or teacher… and...