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Genealogy of the South Indian Deities

An English Translation of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Original German Manuscript with a Textual Analysis and Glossary

By Daniel Jeyaraj

For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34438-8 (Routledge)

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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index

By Lewis Hodous, William E. Soothill

This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1455-1 (Routledge)

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Christians and Missionaries in India

Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500

Edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg

The assumption that Christianity in India is nothing more than a European, western, or colonial imposition is open to challenge. Those who now think and…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1600-5 (Routledge)

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Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control

Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

By Jon Miller

This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1763-7 (Routledge)

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La Renovation du Shi'isme Ismaelien En Inde Et Au Pakistan

D'apres les Ecrits et les Discours de Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan

By Michel Boivin

This French-language book is the first to propose a scientific approach to the Aga Khan's religious thought, placing it in its proper perspective by revealing…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1422-3 (Routledge)

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Buddhas and Kami in Japan

Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

Edited by Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29747-9 (Routledge)

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Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions

Edited by Judith M. Brown, Robert Eric Frykenberg

Christianity has been one of India's religious traditions since its beginning, but the 19th and 20th centuries saw a new wave of Protestant missionary concern…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1601-2 (Routledge)

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A Popular Dictionary of Paganism

By Joanne Pearson

This dictionary provides a readily available collection of source material for a subject which has recently become of considerable public and academic interest. It provides…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7007-1591-6 (Routledge)

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Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics

An Outline of Indian Non-Realism

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa),…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1604-3 (Routledge)

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The Rishi of Bangladesh

A History of Christian Dialogue

By Dr Cosimo Zene, Cosimo Zene

This book is a study of the changing relationship over time (1856-1994) between the Rishi, an ex-Untouchable jati of Bengal/South-West Bangladesh, and various groups of…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1521-3 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Satyagraha: The Gandhian Faith in Non-Violence
By Jesse Van Der Valk
To be published May 31st 2009

Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice
Edited by James Robson, James Alexander Benn, Lori R. Meeks
To be published June 15th 2009

Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles and Exceptions
By Mandakranta Bose
To be published June 30th 2009

South Asian Religions: Belief Systems and Practices
Edited by Selva J. Raj
To be published October 1st 2009

The Living Hindu World
Edited by Sushil Mittal, Gene Thursby
To be published February 1st 2010

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