Author: Michael Fishbane
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: traditions, series, world, religious, judaism, revelation
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 1987-12-23
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060626550
ISBN-13: 9780060626556

An authoritative look at Judaism’s historical sweep and distinctive religious dimensions, showing how it developed out of the Hebrew Bible and has diversified throughout history and throughout the world.

Authors:Randy P Lundschien Conner, David Sparks,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: traditions, african, participation, inspired, americas, transgender, gay, creole, spiritual, lesbian, queering, bisexual
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2004-03-22
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 1560233516
ISBN-13: 9781560233510

What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the p

Authors:Jerry Bentley, Herbert Ziegler,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: traditions, encounters, amp, present, volume
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073330639
ISBN-13: 9780073330631

Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps

Authors:Jerry Bentley, Herbert Ziegler,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: traditions, encounters, amp, beginning, volume
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073330620
ISBN-13: 9780073330624

Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps

Author: Brian E. Brown
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Keywords: traditions, buddhist, nature, buddha
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 812080631X
ISBN-13: 9788120806313

rep. of a classic on Buddhist tradition

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: cultures, beliefs, traditions, ages, vol, middle, european, social, control, artistic, creation, obscenity
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 9004109285
ISBN-13: 9789004109285

This volume contains nearly 20 essays on obscenity in medieval culture. They represent an attempt to probe the natures, origins and consequences of obscenity in medieval literature, art, theatre and law. Although a core is devoted to obscenity in medieval French literature (where the fabliaux have elicited more previous attempts to come to terms with obscenity than has any other type of medieval literature), other contributions to the volume explore manifestations of obscenity in other cultures and languages.

Authors:Ann Lovelace, Joy White,
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Keywords: beliefs, traditions, values, amp, dharma, hinduism, sanatan
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $12.81
ISBN-10: 0435302523
ISBN-13: 9780435302528

Designed for a short-course GCSE in religious studies and general courses at Key Stage 4, this text on Hinduism has a general introduction outlining basic beliefs and views about God and morality, and an exploration of themes which match the revised topics of the GCSE specifications.