Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“alexander henn”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alexander henn”
Skip side bar filters

  • Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa

    Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity

    by Alexander Henn ...
    The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert their own religious identities, but Hindu village gods and Catholic patron saints attract worship ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Book of Marvels and Travels

    by John Mandeville ...
    Translated by Anthony Bale ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History and Topography of Ireland

    by Gerald of Wales ...
    Translated by John O'Meara ...
    Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Modern Spirit of Asia

    The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India

    by Peter van der Veer ...
    A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gandhi: From Monu to Mahatma

    by Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi ...
    This is a story of the amazing evolution of a great visionary and freedom fighter of India, Mahatma Gandhi. The narration of the evolution of a great soul is simple, straight-forward, unembellished but never simplistic. It is written for children but when an adult reads it the child in him is alive again. The Mahatma also had kept the child Monu alive in himself until he died as a martyr. This is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Of Sacred and Secular Desire

    An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    The fertile land of the five rivers (punj+ab in Persian) has persistently stirred the imagination of its peoples. Its story is the story of invasion. In 326 BCE Alexander the Great marched through the Hindu Kush, conquered the verdant plains now divided between India and Pakistan, and stamped Greek cultural and linguistic influence on the region. Over the centuries the lure of the Punjab attracted ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Indian Asceticism

    Power, Violence, and Play

    by Carl Olson ...
    Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Race

    A Theological Account

    by J. Kameron Carter ...
    In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Making the American Religious Fringe

    Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993

    by Sean McCloud ...
    In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions as “mainstream” or “fringe” in the post–World War II United States. McCloud argues that in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Gandhian Moment

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo ...
    The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act is the ultimate “Gandhian moment.” ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Raising Spirits

    How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment

    by J. Barry ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism

    Edited by Thomas Banchoff ...
    Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all fostered a wider variety of religious beliefs, practices, and organizations within and across democratic societies. This is true in both the United States and Europe, where growing and diverse minority communities are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD