Author: Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521461290
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A lively examination of female world-renunciation on Buddhist Sri Lanka.

Author: Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Nur Yalman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 056702749X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This collection of essays by internationally renowned women scholars both contests the notion of fundamentalism and attempts to find places where it might convege with women's roles in the various world's religions. The essayists explore fundamentalism as a system or method of limiting women's religious roles and examine the ways that women embrace certain aspects of fundamentalism. The essays cover Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansim, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The contributors investigate the ways that women "fight back" against fundamentalist conceptions of family, gender roles, doctrinal practices, ritual practices, and God or theistic constructs. The writers reassert and preserve their identities by challenging the static categories of fundamentalism. The essays contain deep and powerful explorations of the intersections of culture, religion, and feminism.

Author: John Holt
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791

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Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

Author: Nur Yalman
Publisher: Campus, 62
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A microanalysis of a social anthropological study of a particular village in the Ceylon rural highlands.

Author: Nur Yalman
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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A microanalysis of a social anthropological study of a particular village in the Ceylon rural highlands.

Author: Kathryn R. Blackstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805699
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkunis. Only text in the Buddhist tradition of known female authorship. Important to anyone investigating women's own perspective on their religion. Also provides a clear statement about how renunciants understand nibbana.

Author: Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135788561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a resort to religious stories that allow for war when Buddhism is in peril. Though Buddhism is commonly assumed to be a religion that never allows for war, this study suggests otherwise, thereby bringing Buddhism into the ethical dialogue on religion and war. Without a realistic consideration of just-war thinking in contemporary Sri Lanka, it will remain impossible to understand the power of religion there to create both peace and war.

Author: Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802862810
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Pentecostal scholars from four continents here offer constructive theological proposals focusing on the role of the Holy Spirit in diverse cultural and religious contexts. Typical Pentecostal topics Spirit-baptism, healing, and other charisms are interwoven with such themes as post-colonialism, religious plurality, racial diversity, and cultural heritage.