Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints

Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints PDF Author: David Marshall Lang
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Category : Caucasus, South
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints

Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints PDF Author: David Marshall Lang
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Category : Caucasus, South
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints

Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints PDF Author: David Marshall Lang (ed. and tr)
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Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints Selected and Translated from the Original Texts by David Marshall Lang,...

Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints Selected and Translated from the Original Texts by David Marshall Lang,... PDF Author:
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Pages : 180

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Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints

Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints PDF Author: David Marshall Lang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000483304
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117

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With the exception of the life of St. Nino, none of the biographies here had been previously translated into English when this book was originally published in 1956. The lives of the Georgian saints are rich and many-sided, not dry chronicles of monkish trivialities. They contain vivid descriptions of life in the Caucasus, Byzantium and Palestine. They give the reader insight into the history and aspirations of an important branch of the Eastern Church and into its relationships with Zoroastrian Persia, the Arab Caliphate, the Imperial Court of Constantinople and the whole world of mediaeval Christendom.

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Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 7838978157
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Languages : en
Pages : 379

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Georgia Through Its Folktales

Georgia Through Its Folktales PDF Author: Michael Berman
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1846942799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Full of third sons, talking birds, enchanted places, beautiful women and impossible journeys, these charmingly illustrated stories have a magic-realist, almost absurd quality, and they are told and translated with enough shamanstvo to keep you reading. In his introduction and extensive accompanying gloss, Michael Berman skilfully locates them in their historical, religious, storytelling and shamanic contexts with a scholarship that is both thorough and accessible, making it complementary to the reader's enjoyment. A nice collection. David Ronder

Saints and Their Cults

Saints and Their Cults PDF Author: Stephen Wilson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521311816
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been translated from French including a pioneering study by Robert Hertz, one of Durkheim's most eminent pupils. The editor provides a wide-ranging general and historical introduction, and a 100- page annotated bibliography covering material on the subject in all disciplines and in four main languages.

The Buddha

The Buddha PDF Author: Philip C. Almond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009346792
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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The first book both to tell the story of the Buddha's life and how the Buddha came to the West.

Historical Dictionary of Georgia

Historical Dictionary of Georgia PDF Author: Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442241462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 813

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Situated in the breathtaking Caucasus Mountains between the Black and the Caspian Seas, the country of Georgia sits at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; it has gone through more turbulence and change in the last twenty five years—the casting off of the Soviet regime, a civil war, two ethno-territorial conflicts, economic collapse, corruption, government inefficiency, and massive emigration—than most countries go through in 250 years. This small nation's strategic location at the crossroads of different civilizations has been a curse as well as a blessing. Once a battlefield between the ancient empires and the Christian and Islamic worlds, today it is caught between its NATO aspirations and its location in Russia’s backyard. Yet, despite all challenges and hardships, this resilient and ancient country, with thousands of years of winemaking, three-thousand years of statehood, and almost two millennia of Christianity, continues to survive and thrive. This book uses its chronology; glossary; introduction; appendixes; maps; bibliography; and over 900 hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events and institutions, as well as significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects to trace Georgia's history and predict its future. This historical dictionary is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Georgia.

Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West

Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West PDF Author: A. J. Arberry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000807711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1632

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In the belief that all the great religions have similarities that confirm and differences that enrich peoples’ spiritual outlook on the world, the editors inaugurated a series which they hoped would bring out the essential tenets of religion in what they perceived to be an age of doubt. The series was originally published in the 1950s and consisted of three kinds of books: translations of imaginative, devotional and philosophic works, with an introduction or commentary; reproductions of masterpieces of religious art; and background books showing the environment in which this literature and art arose and developed. The books overlap each other: Both Eastern and Western religious art often illustrates a religious text and many of the books seek the common ground in their cultural view of religion or philosophy.