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Dharma and Halacha

Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion

by Rachel McDermott, Daniel Polish, Tracy Pintchman, Phillipe Bornet, Aaron Gross, Purushottama Bilimoria, Paul Martin, Barbara A. Holdrege, Shoshana Razel Gordon-Guedalia, Ithamar Theodor, Thomas A. Forsthoefel1, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg2, Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber4 ...

Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion represents a significant contribution to ... Read more

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In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion represents a significant contribution to
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Sources of Indian Traditions

Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Edited by Rachel Fell McDermott, Dennis Dalton, Leonard Gordon, Frances Pritchett, Ainslie T. Embree ...

Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. ... Read more

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For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today.
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal

The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals

by Rachel Fell McDermott ...

Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. ... Read more

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Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries.
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God at Play

Līlā in Hindu and Christian Traditions

by Daniel Soars, Michelle Voss, Sucharita Adluri, Ankur Barua, Stephen R.L. Clark, Francis X. Clooney, Rachel Fell McDermott, Jessica Frazier, Bernard McGinn, Douglas Hedley0, Srilata Raman1, Daniel Tolan2, Peter Tyler3, Dominic White4 ...

Series Book 11 - Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
The first comparative treatment of the topic of līlā in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassionGod at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of līlā across diverse Hindu and Christian landscapes and its wide-ranging connections to divine and ... Read more

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The first comparative treatment of the topic of līlā in Hindu and Christian traditions, this volume explores what it means to consider divine and human action under the categories of play, wit, drama, grace, and compassionGod at Play presents a theological exploration of the multifaceted motif of līlā across diverse Hindu and Christian landscapes and its wide-ranging connections to divine and
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Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care

Chaplaincy in Theory and Practice

by Lucinda Mosher, Vineet Chander, Rita Sherma, Varun Khanna, Anantanand Rambachan, Shaunaka Rishi Das, Christopher Key Chapple, Viraj Patel, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan, Gopal K. Gupta, Rachel Fell McDermott, Madhu Sharma, Swami Sarvaananda, Shama Mehta, Joseph Ghanashyam Caruso, Jeffery Long, Brahmachari V. Sharan, Asha Shipman, Tahil Sharma, Ramdas Lamb, Rasanath Das, Murali Balaji, Pulin Sanghvi, Raja Bhattar, Vaishali Gupta Chandrashekar, Amrutur Srinivasan, Gopal Patel, Shrestha Singh ...

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus. It ... Read more

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Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus. It
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Absolution

A Novel

by Alice McDermott ...

Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky, Rachel Kenney ...

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10 hours 2 min

"A breath of fresh air."—BookPage"Both narrators bring deep emotional tonality...this exceptional listen will foster deep book club discussions." —Booklist"Alternately gripping, moving, and thought-provoking...this is an audiobook to savor." - AudioFileA riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.... ... Read more

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"A breath of fresh air."—BookPage"Both narrators bring deep emotional tonality...this exceptional listen will foster deep book club discussions." —Booklist"Alternately gripping, moving, and thought-provoking...this is an audiobook to savor." - AudioFileA riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award....
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A Hindu-Jewish Conversation

Root Traditions in Dialogue

by Daniel F. Polish, Rachel Fell McDermott ...

Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two “root” traditions that give rise to other-in some ways very different-types of religious traditions. Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish explore conceptions of the divine, which are frequently cited as the most serious obstacle to a ... Read more

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A Hindu-Jewish Conversation: Root Traditions in Dialogue is a historical, theological, and phenomenological engagement of the Hindu and Jewish traditions, two “root” traditions that give rise to other-in some ways very different-types of religious traditions. Rachel Fell McDermott and Daniel F. Polish explore conceptions of the divine, which are frequently cited as the most serious obstacle to a
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The Death of the Goddess

A Poem in Twelve Cantos

by Patrick Colm Hogan, Rachel Fell McDermott ...

THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, narrative poem that is a moving account of affection, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and Hogan’s reading of the Bhagavad Gita, the central figures are two lovers who refuse to accept unjust social hierarchies and suffer separation and death for that choice. In this groundbreaking narrative, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out to re ... Read more

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THE DEATH OF THE GODDESS is an epic, narrative poem that is a moving account of affection, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by Buddhism, Indic thought and Hogan’s reading of the Bhagavad Gita, the central figures are two lovers who refuse to accept unjust social hierarchies and suffer separation and death for that choice. In this groundbreaking narrative, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out to re
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Red Clay

by Charles B. Fancher ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

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10 hours 35 min

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORKAn astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave—on the morning following his funeral—his family hardly ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORKAn astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave—on the morning following his funeral—his family hardly
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Bau: Artist at War

by Joseph Bau, Inbar Lavi ...

Narrated by Assaf Cohen ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCHA classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration camps are dying and the Holocaust is slipping from memory. Includes a foreword by Clila Bau-Cohen and Hadasa Bau and an introduction by Sean McNamara, ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCHA classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a critical moment when the last survivors of the German concentration camps are dying and the Holocaust is slipping from memory. Includes a foreword by Clila Bau-Cohen and Hadasa Bau and an introduction by Sean McNamara,
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Good Night, Irene

A Novel

by Luis Alberto Urrea ...

Narrated by Luis Alberto Urrea, Barrie Kreinik ...

Unabridged

13 hours 26 min

**This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.“Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through ... He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” —Financial Times**In ... Read more

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**This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.“Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through ... He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” —Financial Times**In
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Last House

A Novel

by Jessica Shattuck ...

Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Mark Bramhall ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

""An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures and connects it all—the imperial ambitions of the postwar generation, the rebellion of their offspring in the Sixties, and the fallout we’re still sifting through today. . . . This is a wide-ranging novel to savor.” — TOM PERROTTAFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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""An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures and connects it all—the imperial ambitions of the postwar generation, the rebellion of their offspring in the Sixties, and the fallout we’re still sifting through today. . . . This is a wide-ranging novel to savor.” — TOM PERROTTAFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle
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