Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World: Or, A Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe, Both Antient and Modern, from the Creation Down to the Present Time
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, of the Whole World, Or, A Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe, Both Ancient and Modern, from the Creation Down to the Present Time ...
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Before Religion
Author: Brent NongbriPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
The Buddha's Tooth
Author: John S. StrongPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022680173X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Part One: The Portuguese and the Tooth Relic -- Chapter One: The Tale of the Portuguese Tooth and Its Sources -- Chapter Two: Where the Tooth Was Found: Traditions about the Location of the Relic in Sri -- Lanka -- Chapter Three: Whose Tooth Was It? Traditions about the Identity of the Relic -- Chapter Four: The Trial of the Tooth -- Chapter Five: The Destruction of the Tooth -- Conspectus of Part One: The Storical Evolution of the Tales of the Portuguese Tooth -- Part Two: The British and the Tooth Relic -- Chapter Six: The Cosmopolitan Tooth: The Relic in Kandy before the British Became Aware of -- It -- Chapter Seven: The British Takeover of 1815 and the Kandyan Convention -- Chapter Eight: The Relic Returns: The Tooth and Its Properties Restored to the Temple -- Chapter Nine: The Relic Lost and Recaptured: The Tooth and the Rebellion of 1817- -- Chapter Ten: The Relic Disestablished: Missionary Oppositions to the Tooth -- Chapter Eleven: Showings of the Tooth: The Story of the King of Siam's Visit (1897) -- Chapter Twelve: Showings of the Tooth: The Story of Queen Elizabeth's Shoes (1954).
Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World
Author: William HurdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Study of Hinduism
Author: Arvind SharmaPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034497
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In this text, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual investment in Hinduism. Since the early 19th century, when the scholarly investigation of Hinduism began to take shape as a modern academic discipline, Hindu studies has evolved from its concentration on description and analysis to an emphasis on understanding Hindu traditions in the context of the religion's own values, concepts and history. Offering an assessment of the current state of Hindu studies, the contributors to this volume identify past achievements and chart the course for what remains to be accomplished in the field.
Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol
Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639123X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of this oriental idol and his teachings reached the West in haphazard but fascinating ways. A Jesuit missionary traveling with a Thai delegation to the court of Louis XIV spent months at sea with a Buddhist monk and asked him many questions. A Russian ship captain was held captive for three years in Japan and learned about the Buddha from his jailors. A Catholic priest in China dressed like a Confucian gentleman and learned in this way to disparage the Buddha. British army officers on surveys of India struggled to decipher monuments, inscriptions, and statues. Western references to Buddhism extend back to the first years of the third century CE, and during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, European contact with, and writing about, Buddhism was extensive. Because much of this writing is considered wrong today, it is often forgotten or dismissed, but in this anthology Donald S. Lopez Jr. shows their great importance for understanding how our view of the Buddha evolved, from an idol worshipped by heathens to the revered founder of a religion. This fascinating compendium begins with Clement of Alexandria around 200 and ends with the great French scholar Eugene Burnouf in 1844. It can be read as a companion to Lopez s 2013 book From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha (forthcoming in paperback in the same season) or enjoyed on its own for its strange but instructive tales."
First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art,.
Author: National Art Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description