Mountain At A Center Of The World

Author : Alexander McKinley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231558501

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Mountain at a Center of the World by Alexander McKinley Pdf

At the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri Lankan state, for its part, often uses the Peak as a prop to convey a harmonious image of religious pluralism, despite increasing Buddhist hegemony. How should the diversity of this place be understood historically and managed practically? Considering the varied heritage of this sacred site, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain. From its diverse people to rare species to deep geology, the Peak exemplifies a planetary pluralism that recognizes a multiplicity of beings while accepting competition and disorder. Taking a place-based approach, McKinley casts the mountain as an actor, exploring how its rocks, forests, and waters promote pilgrimage, inspire storytelling, and make ethical demands on human communities. Combining history and ethnography while furnishing original translations of sources from Pali, Sinhala, and Tamil, this multidisciplinary and stylistically innovative book shows how religious traditions share literal common ground in their reverence for the mountain.

Author : Edward Bernbaum,Edwin Bernbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834742

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Sacred Mountains of the World by Edward Bernbaum,Edwin Bernbaum Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the symbolism of mountains in the mythologies, religions, literature, and art of cultures around the world.

Author : Shemaryahu Talmon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004677036

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Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible by Shemaryahu Talmon Pdf

The studies assembled in this volume focus on two issues: firstly, the analysis and illustration of literary techniques employed by authors and compilers of the books of the Hebrew bible. In several instances, their development is followed into the early post-biblical Qumran writings and Apocrypha. Thus, the essays in this section relate to biblical literature qua literature, an issue which has especially attracted scholars in the field of recent times. In a second group of essays, the author sets out to probe the interconnection of literature and society in biblical Israel. Literary patterns, foremost motifs, are analyzed in the attempt to extract from them facets of underlying conceptual or speculative thought. Since biblical authors refrained, on the whole, from presenting systematically their world of ideas, the proposed evaluation of literary patterns may help in better gauging the conceptual universe of Israel in the biblical period

Author : Gary Backhaus
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789731997247

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Environment, Space, Place - Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2009) by Gary Backhaus Pdf

Author : Haiming Yan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338052

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World Heritage Craze in China by Haiming Yan Pdf

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda, the national practices, and the local responses. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Author : David L. Haberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190086718

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Loving Stones by David L. Haberman Pdf

"Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich religious world associated with Mount Govardhan, much of which has not been available in previous scholarly literature. It is often said in that Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible" for devoted worshipers. This investigation includes examination of the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. Second, it aims to address the challenge of interpreting something as radically different as the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploration of interpretive strategies that aspire to make the un-understandable understandable, and engages in theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and like realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and secondarily, its twin anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Accordingly, the second aim aspires to use the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to "make the impossible possible". ""--

Author : Gary Fuller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442235663

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The Trivia Lover's Guide to Even More of the World by Gary Fuller Pdf

Gary Fuller’s entertaining and informative guide uses geographic trivia questions as a springboard to learning about non-trivial aspects of our globe. An enlightening book for all readers, it enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun. Discover who named the kangaroo; where can you find Lakers and Salties; what chili peppers, pineapple, chocolate, and vanilla have in common; where Shangri La was; and who was the most successful pirate in the Caribbean. An inveterate traveler and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller provides extensive background, engaging maps and photos, and thorough explanations for each intriguing trivia question. Challenging today’s global generation to truly get to know their world, his book is a delight to read and an essential antidote to our lack of geographical knowledge.

Author : Shirley Nicholson
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780835631266

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Shamanism by Shirley Nicholson Pdf

A powerful collection of essays from authors such as Mircea Eliade, Joan Halifax, Stanley Krippner, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Serge King, and Michael Harner on the mystifying phenomenon of shamanism around the world---what it is, how it works and why.

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210667

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Shamanism by Mircea Eliade Pdf

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.

Author : Roger Lipsey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791447820

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Have You Been to Delphi? by Roger Lipsey Pdf

A fascinating collection of tales and lore from the ancient Oracle at Delphi, this book provides both a collection of good stories and finds spiritual enlightenment weaved throughout these diverse offerings.

Author : Richard Leviton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595851454

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Stars on the Earth by Richard Leviton Pdf

Discover the wonderful secret the Earth holds for us-that the stars of the galaxy live on our planet. Holograms of high-magnitude stars over holy mountains. Physical travel to other planets through stargates on the Earth's surface. Near instantaneous transportation across the planet through quick-way portals. Outrageous science fiction or sober geomantic fact? Earth Mysteries researcher Richard Leviton takes you on a wild tour of three geomantic features of our planet and reveals that what science fiction has dreamed the Earth in fact offers us. Stars on the Earth combines scholarship, clairvoyance, and field experience with the latest discoveries of geology and astrophysics and the timeless insights of the world's myths to open the planetary door to the stars. It's all part of the Earth's unsuspected but staggeringly rich endowment as a designer planet. Our planet was precisely designed and implemented for us, and it's equipped with a visionary geography that mirrors features of the galaxy and Heavens. Why are so many of the Earth's mountains said to be holy, producing visions and encounters with the "gods?" They all have canopies of light called domes, each transmitting the presence of a galactic star. What is the geomantic origin of the Bermuda Triangle? Two dysfunctional stargates. If working properly, they and the Earth's other two million stargates could transport us rapidly to other planets. Is there a way to travel quickly across the planet without using cars, airplanes, boats, or trains? Yes, and it's called a traversable wormhole, and the Earth has thousands of them awaiting our discovery and use. Come join the tour of a planet you've never seen before: our own star-infused Earth.

Author : Akiva Cohen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161499603

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Matthew and the Mishnah by Akiva Cohen Pdf

Akiva Cohen investigates the general research question: how do the authors of religious texts reconstruct their community identity and ethos in the absence of their central cult? His particular socio-historical focus of this more general question is: how do the respective authors of the Gospel according to Matthew, and the editor(s) of the Mishnah redefine their group identities following the destruction of the Second Temple? Cohen further examines how, after the Destruction, both the Matthean and the Mishnaic communities found and articulated their renewed community bearings and a new sense of vision through each of their respective author/redactor's foundational texts. The context of this study is thus that of an inner-Jewish phenomenon; two Jewish groups seeking to (re-)establish their community identity and ethos without the physical temple that had been the cultic center of their cosmos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004320239

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Religion, Place and Modernity by Anonim Pdf

The volume Religion, Place and Modernity explores the spatial articulation of religion and modernity in and through places in Southeast and East Asia. Based on ethnographic, historical and theoretical research, the authors aim at a deeper understanding of the articulation of a religious modernity.

Author : Robert Michael Place,Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : 9781438118314

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Shamanism by Robert Michael Place,Rosemary Guiley Pdf

Defines the practise of shamanism, recounts its role in religion and culture throughout history, and its influence today.

Author : Richard D. Erlich
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434457752

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Coyote's Song by Richard D. Erlich Pdf

A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children's books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, "It is written in English, not academese, and will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students, scholars, and interested readers."