Author: Henry Charles SirrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Ceylon and the Cingalese
Author: Henry Charles SirrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: Spirit Matters
Author: J. Jeffrey FranklinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501715453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure of the West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific naturalism. Spirit Matters covers a range of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities. Franklin investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series of representative case studies that together trace the development of unorthodox religious and spiritual discourses. The ideas and events discussed by Franklin through these case studies were considered outside the domain of orthodox religion yet still religious or spiritual rather than atheistic or materialistic. Among the works—obscure and canonical—he analyzes are Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni and A Strange Story; Forest Life in Ceylon, by William Knighton; Anthony Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton; Anna Leonowens’s The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Literature and Dogma, by Matthew Arnold; and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: Banishment and Belonging
Author: Ronit RicciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108570275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past.
Ceylon and the Cingalese
Author: Henry Charles SirrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Ceylon and the Cingalese
Author: Henry Charles SirrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Their History, Government And Religion, The Antiquities, Institution, Produce, Revenue And Capabilities Of The Island. With Anecdotes Illustrating The Manners And Customs Of The People.
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).
Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales
Author: John Henderson (capt. 78th Highlanders.)Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Narrative of Arctic Discovery, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Author: John Joseph ShillinglawPublisher: London : W. Shoberl
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Appendix: List of vessels and officers engaged in Arctic research, from 1818 to 1850.