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The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'-debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain-and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human responses to them, conditioned cultural production in early South Asia (c. 4th-7th centuries CE). Rather than an agonistic term, the book uses 'confrontation' as a heuristic to examine historical moments within...

Joerg Jeremias hat die Forschung zum Dodekapropheton in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark gepragt. Massstabsetzend waren seine Kommentare zum Hosea- (ATD 24/1, 1983) und Amosbuch (ATD 24/2, 1995) sowie der Sammelband zu den "Anfangen des Dodekapropheton" (FAT 13, 1996) mit Studien zu Amos und Hosea und zu Grundfragen der Prophetie. Die im vorliegenden Band zusammengestellten Aufsatze setzen das konsequent fort: Sie erganzen und vertiefen die Kommentierungen von Joerg Jeremias zu Joel, Obadja, Jona,...

La Maison de Dieu est un theme aussi riche qu'important. Le present volume s'emploie a en eclairer differentes facettes essentiellement dans les ecrits bibliques et parabibliques, mais aussi chez des auteurs juifs et chretiens de l'Antiquite et, au-dela, chez les Reformateurs. L'approche est resolument ouverte. C'est ainsi qu'une place est reservee au Coran. Recours est fait notamment, outre a l'exegese, a l'archeologie, pour aborder le theme, faire apparaire, sur les plans historique et theolog...

The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet, it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride-and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement, and inspires magazine articles that offer "mattress-quaking sex styles" such as "the backstairs boogi...

This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to the rise of Vedantic Hindu modernity discourse in India. The nineteenth century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. F...

In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-d...

Am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts richtete sich in ganz Europa und innerhalb aller christlicher Konfessionen die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Froemmigkeit. Zwischen den verschiedenen Froemmigkeitsbewegungen, die so entstanden, wie dem Puritanismus in England, der Nadere Reformatie in den Niederlanden und dem deutschen Pietismus, gab es intensive Verbindungen, in denen UEbersetzungen von Erbauungsliteratur eine wichtige Rolle spielten. Wahrend die Forschung diese UEbersetzungen bisher eher auf der Makroeben...

This is a compact yet authoritative history of Hinduism, from its origins over 4000 years ago to the impact of the belief system across the world today. It highlights key figures in Hinduism, including Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva and, in recent times, Vivekanada, Sahajananda Swami and Bhaktivedanta Swami. It focuses on the major historical events that have shaped Hinduism - the Vedic Period and the North Classical Age, the Mughal Empire and the impact of British Rule. Hindiuism is often called th...

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge,...

This volume is a first attempt to investigate the impact of urban space on prayers and related religious thought and belief in ancient religions from the first to the sixth century CE. Taking its lead from the spatial turn in scholarship, methodologically it is an attempt to replace the hitherto customary focus on the forms and semantics of prayer with an urban-spatial model. This model understands prayers as performances that are embedded and embodied in urban space as well as texts producing a...

Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahabharata, many of the Sanskrit epic's themes are illuminated by Freud's thought and, conversely, many incidents in the epic can be used to illustrate Freud's theories. In Freud's Mahabharata, the companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mahabharata based on Freud. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of the preoedipal, along with Freud's discussion of burial alive, ghosts...