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Islam in the Era of Globalization
Muslim Attitudes towards Modernity and Identity
Globalization, modernity and identity are fundamental issues in contemporary Islam and Islamic Studies. This collection of essays reflects the wide diversity that characterises contemporary Islamic… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1691-3 (Routledge)
Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt
Shifting Worlds
This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1505-3 (Routledge)
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The Theology of Ramanuja
Realism and Religion
This is the first attempt to understand Ramanuja in the context of his religious and philosophical tradition. It is the only work which establishes his… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1459-9 (Routledge)
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism
Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1506-0 (Routledge)
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Religion and Biography in China and Tibet
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1177-2 (Routledge)
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Beyond Personal Identity
Dogen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self
Applies Dogen Kigen's religious philosophy and the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity, probing the applicability of the concept of… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1217-5 (Routledge)
Buddhist Suttas
This is a subset of F. Max Mullers great collection The Sacred Books of the East which includes translations of all the most important works… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1549-7 (Routledge)
Buddhist Mahayana Texts
This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1553-4 (Routledge)
Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal
'An Indian Soul in a European Body?'
Working with Bengali mentors, especially his close friend A. B. Ghose, Sir John Woodroffe became the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1345-5 (Routledge)
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Buddhism and Deconstruction
Towards a Comparative Semiotics
This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumārajīva (344-413 CE), Paramārtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1386-8 (Routledge)
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