Info
- Select one or more items in order to activate some functionalities like: print, send by email, download in available formats.
Alef, mem, tau [[electronic resource] ] : kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death / / Elliot R. Wolfson
| Alef, mem, tau [[electronic resource] ] : kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death / / Elliot R. Wolfson |
| Author | Wolfson Elliot R |
| Publication | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006 |
| Physical description | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Dewey | 296.1/6 |
| Series statement | The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies |
| Topical subject |
Time - Philosophy
Time - Religious aspects - Judaism Cabala - History |
| Uncontrolled subject |
aqiva
azriel of gerona azriel babylonian talmud bahir bahiric text berakhah bereshit binah buddhism death destiny eastern philosophy eastern religion emet esoteric religion immortality islam judaica judaism kabbalah kabbalism medieval kabbalah mysticism nature of time philosophy rebirth religion religious studies semiotics temporality time western philosophy yiddishkeit |
| ISBN |
1-282-75941-8
9786612759413 0-520-93231-5 1-59875-916-7 |
| Format | Language material  |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language | eng |
| Formatted content note | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Thinking Time / Hermeneutic Suppositions -- 2. Linear Circularity / (A)Temporal Poetics -- 3. Before Alef / Where Beginnings End -- 4. Within Mem / Returning Forward -- 5. After Tau / Where Endings Begin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783669603321 |
Wolfson Elliot R
|
||
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006 | ||
| Language material | ||
| You will find it: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Ancestors and anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / / Stephen R. Bokenkamp
| Ancestors and anxiety [[electronic resource] ] : Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China / / Stephen R. Bokenkamp |
| Author | Bokenkamp Stephen R. <1949-> |
| Publication | Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Physical description | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Dewey | 299.514237 |
| Series statement | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
| Topical subject |
Taoism
Reincarnation - Buddhism |
| Uncontrolled subject |
6th century
afterlife belief buddhist chinese culture chinese history chinese myth chinese scripture chinese worldview cultural history cultural studies daoist daoists faith global holy book indic international non buddhist rebirth reincarnation religion religious studies scripture social history social studies |
| ISBN |
1-282-44573-1
9786612445736 0-520-93334-6 1-4356-0197-1 |
| Format | Language material |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language | eng |
| Formatted content note | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth -- 1. Envisioning the Dead -- 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate -- 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead -- 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead -- 5. Rebirth Reborn -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Other Variant Titles | Daoism and the birth of rebirth in China |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778117803321 |
|
Bokenkamp Stephen R. <1949->
|
||
| Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
| Language material | ||
| You will find it: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere
| Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
| Author | Obeyesekere Gananath |
| Publication | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
| Physical description | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
| Dewey | 291.2/37 |
| Series statement | Comparative studies in religion and society |
| Topical subject |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
| Uncontrolled subject |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
| ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
| Classification | BE 2460 |
| Format | Language material |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language | eng |
| Formatted content note | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783075303321 |
|
Obeyesekere Gananath
|
||
| Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] | ||
| Language material | ||
| You will find it: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere
| Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
| Author | Obeyesekere Gananath |
| Publication | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
| Physical description | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
| Dewey | 291.2/37 |
| Series statement | Comparative studies in religion and society |
| Topical subject |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
| Uncontrolled subject |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
| ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
| Classification | BE 2460 |
| Format | Language material |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language | eng |
| Formatted content note | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813931003321 |
|
Obeyesekere Gananath
|
||
| Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] | ||
| Language material | ||
| You will find it: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Soul hunters [[electronic resource] ] : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev
| Soul hunters [[electronic resource] ] : hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs / / Rane Willerslev |
| Author | Willerslev Rane <1971-> |
| Publication | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Physical description | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Dewey | 305.89/46 |
| Topical subject |
Yukaghir - Hunting - Russia (Federation) - Siberia
Animism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Yukaghir - Russia (Federation) - Siberia Ethnology - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
| Uncontrolled subject |
animals and persons
animals animism anthropology body and soul body soul dialects ethnography hall of mirrors world human rebirth beliefs humans hunters hunting life identity indigenous peoples insightful mimesis native peoples northeastern siberia personhood perspectivism phenomenology rebirth reincarnation religion and spirituality shaman shamanism siberia siberian studies souls species spirit world spirits spiritual upper kolyma yukaghirs |
| ISBN |
1-282-77222-8
9786612772221 0-520-94100-4 1-4337-0878-7 |
| Classification | LC 30326 |
| Format | Language material |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language | eng |
| Formatted content note | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Animism as Mimesis -- 2. To Kill or Not to Kill: Rebirth, Sharing, and Risk -- 3. Body-Soul Dialectics: Human Rebirth Beliefs -- 4. Ideas of Species and Personhood -- 5. Animals as Persons -- 6. Shamanism -- 7. The Spirit World -- 8. Learning and Dreaming -- 9. Taking Animism Seriously -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784419403321 |
|
Willerslev Rane <1971->
|
||
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
| Language material | ||
| You will find it: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||