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  • English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700

    New Kingdoms of Womanhood

    by Alexandra Verini ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe

    Edited by Alexandra Verini, Abir Bazaz ...
    Series series Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
    This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the disparate religious traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity expressed devotion in parallel ways. The argument is that women’s mysticism demands to be compared not because of any essential "female" experience of the divine but because ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Female Friendship

    Literary and Artistic Explorations

    by Ida Day, Victor Fet, Melissa Garr, Adriana Guarro Romero, Ivy Schweitzer, Anya Jabour, Michael Eskin, Joanne Findon, Araceli Hernández-Laroche0, Susan Petrilli1, Natalie M. Van Deusen2, Alexandra Verini3, Kathleen J. Waites4 ...
    This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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    It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditional religious affiliations, the growing interest in spirituality and the use of the word in a variety of contexts is a striking aspect of contemporary western cultures. Indeed, spirituality is sometimes contrasted attractively with religion, although this ... Read more

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  • Mystics and Zen Masters

    by Thomas Merton ...
    The spiritualist author of The Seven Storey Mountain explores various religions and theologies and examines their similarities.Thomas Merton's devotion to the Roman Catholic Church never impeded his ability to appreciate the world's varieties of religious thought—if anything, the contemplative nature of his monasticism encouraged it. In Mystics and Zen Masters, Merton discusses diverse religious ... Read more

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  • Buddha

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    by Michael Carrithers ...
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    Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The ... Read more

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  • Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives

    Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

    by Gregory M. Clines ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies
    Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature.The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors ... Read more

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  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
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  • The Fifth Dimension

    An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm

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    The case for a bigger, more complete picture of reality in which a fifth, spiritual dimension plays a central roleDrawing on mystical and religious traditions ancient and modern, and spiritual thinkers as diverse as Julian of Norwich and Mahatma Gandhi, The Fifth Dimension is John Hick's eloquent argument for a more complete reality, in which a fifth, spiritual dimension plays a central role. ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Religion in Japan

    by Jason Ananda Josephson ...
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  • A Way to God

    Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey

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    This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton’s birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he’s gotten into — such as being excommunicated in 1993 from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict) — was because of Thomas Merton, who sent Fox to Paris to complete a doctoral program in philosophy. Fox ... Read more

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    by Wendy Doniger ...
    In this magisterial volume of essays*,* Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the ... Read more

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