Автор: Lanfranchi, Sania Sharawi Название: Volto scoperto ISBN: 0993163440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993163449 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Da "Senza velo: se gli occhi delle donne possono cambiare l'Islam", articolo di Bernardo Valli comparso su La Repubblica il 23/4/2012: "Nella fotografia che ho sotto gli occhi Huda Shaarawi ha un'espressione grave, in contrasto con il viso fresco, quasi da adolescente. Lo sguardo fermo; i grandi occhi ben spalancati; il piglio risoluto accentuato dalle labbra imbronciate; la fronte e le guance non sembrano mai state sfiorate dal sole dell'Alto Egitto natale. Il volto una miniatura imprigionata nel foulard nero che fa da cornice ovale e che cancella i capelli e il collo. In quella fotografia Huda non ha ancora quarantaquattro anni. L'et di quando si tolse il velo in pubblico, nella stazione ferroviaria del Cairo. Accadde nel maggio del 1923... Quel gesto non rimasto soltanto un episodio del femminismo nel mondo musulmano. La condizione delle donne rivela il livello politico e sociale di un paese. Di tutti i paesi. Ai tempi di Huda Shaarawi sulle sponde del Nilo il velo non si limitava a riassumere lo stato di soggezione in cui le donne vivevano. Era anche il simbolo di un sistema che usava la tradizione religiosa come strumento di potere. Nessuna femminista egiziana aveva osato tanto prima di Huda. I suoi lineamenti, il suo profilo, la sua espressione, in versione pi dolce, li ritrovo nella nipote: Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi, una carissima amica, che ha scritto la biografia della nonna Casting Off the Veil, The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist."
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage.
Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent.
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Название: The Anatomy of Deep Time: Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia ISBN: 1108790089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108790086 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia`s Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of cultural manifestations: where rock art appears, when it disappears, and why. The material and this remote arena offer an ideal laboratory to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.
An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would contend, however, the Roshaniyya attempted to make language do something that language should not do—infuse the semiotic with the divine. Their story thus ends in a tower of skulls, the proliferation of heresiographies that detailed the sins of the Roshaniyya, and new formations of “Afghan” identity. In Singing with the Mountains, William E. B. Sherman finds something extraordinary about the Roshaniyya, not least because the first known literary use of vernacular Pashto occurs in an eclectic, Roshani imitation of the Qur’an. The story of the Roshaniyya exemplifies a religious culture of linguistic experimentation. In the example of the Roshaniyya, we discover a set of questions and anxieties about the capacities of language that pervaded Sufi orders, imperial courts, groups of wandering ascetics, and scholastic networks throughout Central and South Asia. In telling this tale, Sherman asks the following questions: How can we make language shimmer with divine truth? How can letters grant sovereign power and form new “ethnic” identities and ways of belonging? How can rhyme bend our conceptions of time so that the prophetic past comes to inhabit the now of our collective moment? By analyzing the ways in which the Roshaniyya answered these types of questions—and the ways in which their answers were eventually rejected as heresies—this book offers new insight into the imaginations of religious actors in the late medieval and early modern Persianate worlds.
Автор: Smith Will, Sivaramakrishnan K. Название: Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands ISBN: 029574815X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748153 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecologically sustainable livelihoods, the Pala’wan people have experienced drought and uncertain weather patterns, which they have blamed on their own failure to observe traditional social norms that are believed to regulate climate—norms that, like swidden agriculture, have been outlawed by the state.
In this ethnographic case study, Will Smith asks how those who have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation have come to position themselves as culpable for the devastating impacts of climate change, examining their statements about changing weather, processes of dispossession, and experiences of climate-driven hunger. By engaging both forest policy and local realities, he suggests that reckoning with these complexities requires reevaluating and questioning key wisdoms in global climate-change policy: What is indigenous knowledge, and who should it serve? Who is to blame for the vulnerability of the rural poor? What, and who, belongs in tropical forests?
Название: Great Journeys across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on his Eighty-fifth Birthday ISBN: 9004362223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004362222 Издательство: Brill Цена: 131500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Drawing upon numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia, the articles presented in this volume by leading scholars in the field examine a broad range of topics on the multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic communities along the Silk Road in the medieval period, and cover such topics as the social history of Kucha, book history in Dunhuang, the spread of Manichaeism, the political history of Turkic and Khotanese Kingdoms, and the travelogue of the Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang. They demonstrate that Han Chinese, Khotanese, Sogdians, Tocharians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs have all contributed to constructing a sophisticated international network across Asia.Contributors are: Bi Bo, Chao-jung Ching, Jean Pierre Drege, Ogihara Hirotoshi, Xiaohe Ma, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Xinjiang Rong, Tokio Takata, Xiaofu Wang, Wenkan Xu, Yutaka Yoshida, Lishuang Zhu, Peter Zieme.
An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would contend, however, the Roshaniyya attempted to make language do something that language should not do—infuse the semiotic with the divine. Their story thus ends in a tower of skulls, the proliferation of heresiographies that detailed the sins of the Roshaniyya, and new formations of “Afghan” identity. In Singing with the Mountains, William E. B. Sherman finds something extraordinary about the Roshaniyya, not least because the first known literary use of vernacular Pashto occurs in an eclectic, Roshani imitation of the Qur’an. The story of the Roshaniyya exemplifies a religious culture of linguistic experimentation. In the example of the Roshaniyya, we discover a set of questions and anxieties about the capacities of language that pervaded Sufi orders, imperial courts, groups of wandering ascetics, and scholastic networks throughout Central and South Asia. In telling this tale, Sherman asks the following questions: How can we make language shimmer with divine truth? How can letters grant sovereign power and form new “ethnic” identities and ways of belonging? How can rhyme bend our conceptions of time so that the prophetic past comes to inhabit the now of our collective moment? By analyzing the ways in which the Roshaniyya answered these types of questions—and the ways in which their answers were eventually rejected as heresies—this book offers new insight into the imaginations of religious actors in the late medieval and early modern Persianate worlds.
Автор: Cunningham Grant Kimi Название: Fallen Mountains ISBN: 1948705184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948705189 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Daughter and Sonny are two best friends just trying to get through fourth year at high school. But when their favourite teacher leaves unexpectedly, and no one will say why, the boys decide to start their own investigation. As they dig deeper into the staff at Battlefield High, they discover a dark secret which one person will kill to protect...
Автор: Caleb Swift Carter Название: A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi ISBN: 0824893107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824893101 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago.
Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
Автор: Robert E. Buswell Название: The Master from Mountains and Fields: Prose Writings of Hwadam, So Kyongdok ISBN: 0824893638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824893637 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 72990.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the `collected works` of So Kyongdok (1489-1546), an influential Confucian scholar from the early Choson period (1392-1910). So embodied an archetype of the secluded scholar who remains hidden in `mountains and forests` to devote himself to his studies.
Автор: Caleb Swift Carter Название: A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi ISBN: 0824890132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824890131 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 56850.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Japan's tradition of Shugend? has long been an object of fascination and intrigue among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. A Path into the Mountains offers a provocative reexamination of the complex social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose.Caleb Carter traces Shugend? through the mountains of Togakushi in Nagano prefecture, while situating it within the broader religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to approach Shugend? as a self-conscious religious system--something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond the case of Shugend?, this book rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shint?, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago.A Path into the Mountains takes a novel approach in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements--institution, ritual, and narrative--in the historical formation of religion. Transmitted to Togakushi in the sixteenth century, Shugend? underwent a gradual process of adaptation to a mountain setting already steeped in Buddhist doctrines, rigorous ascetic practices, and devotion to a nine-headed dragon. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how its practitioners implemented creative storytelling tactics, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugend? with their mountain's culture while simultaneously establishing a foundation of social legitimacy and economic security to buttress their livelihoods.Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugend? moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope and reputation, eventually becoming Japan's signature mountain religion. More broadly, it outlines the historical methods by which religious actors mobilized story, ritual, and institution to shape their own sense of religious practice and identity.A Path into the Mountains will find a ready audience among students and scholars of Japanese religions, but also bears relevance for those interested in Buddhism, religious cultural history, and mountain communities.
Автор: Stump Colin Название: Wisdom of the Mountains: Buddhism of Tibet and the Himalaya ISBN: 0995751625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995751620 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 63220.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of Buddhism, how it specifically evolved in Tibet and the Himalaya, and how it is practised today in Tibet, India, Nepal and Bhutan.
This is a good introduction for the general public, and travellers to the region, including the many trekkers who now venture into these parts. The book avoids the overtly religious or academic tone found in some other texts on the subject. It is abundantly illustrated, with over three hundred photographs, annotated images and maps.
Written by Colin Stump, who previously managed a global group of adventure travel companies, this book aims to demystify some of the complexities that travellers in the region will see.
What are prayers flags for? What do all these angry-looking deities on the temple walls mean? What is tantra? What are the monks trying to achieve when they meditate? Why are there so many different buddhas? Who is the Dalai Lama?
The book begins with a straightforward explanation of the basic principles of Buddhism and how the fundamental philosophies evolved into Mahayana, and ultimately the more esoteric form, Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism, popularly known today as Tibetan Buddhism.
Explanation of ritual, practise, and the supporting iconography is given, aided by plentiful colour images, maps, and illustrations. Each of the main traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, Nyingma, Sakya, Kagy , and Geluk are covered in turn, with some history, and then detail on their specific practises and institutions.
Finally, Buddhism as practised in India, now home to many Tibetan refugees, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet is covered, bringing the reader right up to date with the challenges facing this fascinating tradition.
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