Eastern category: 10105 books
by Peter B. Doghramji
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
What does it mean to live and behave as a Christian within a non-Christian, Muslim context? This is not a question about doctrine, liturgy, or ethnic history; it is a question of Christian ethics. Within the context of a constant interaction between religion and culture in the West, the ethical question...
Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia
Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Examines the work of Carl Jung in relation to Eastern religion, the wisdom teachings of the Sophia, Sufi mysticism, and visionary spirituality
• Reveals the spiritual values underlying the psychoanalytic theories of Carl Jung
• Explores the role of the Gnostic Sophia with respect...
Western Lights
A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Western Lights is a collection of essays from the viewpoint of a Western Buddhist teacher. It speaks about Eastern concepts like karma, hope, attachment, and emptiness from a personal perspective and in terms familiar to Americans. They're grounded in subject matter familiar to Americans like politics,...
Material Culture and Asian Religions
Text, Image, Object
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship...
Tahini and Turmeric
101 Middle Eastern Classics--Made Irresistibly Vegan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Hip, healthy, and flavorful, Tahini & Turmeric delivers vegan haute cuisine in 101 easy-to-prepare recipes
With gorgeous full-color photos, artful writing, and out-of-the-box recipes, you'll see why this duo's successful and heart-healthy website, MayIHaveThatRecipe.com, has such a dedicated...
The Jewelled Table
Cooking, Eating and Entertaining the Middle Eastern Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
In The Jewelled Table, Bethany Kehdy takes classic and traditional recipes and demystifies them, in turn reinterpreting them for a modern cook, without sacrificing authenticity. Over 80 ancient and every day recipes from the Middle East are reinterpreted and made accessible for cooking in a Western...
Bitter Harvest
Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization and liberalization, even under socialism, and...
Pictures of the World
Three Views of Life, the Universe, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What is real? What is the foundation of right and wrong? How can we know? There are many ways to answer these questions--Western religious views in which humanity is part of God's creation, Eastern religious views in which delusion traps humanity in a cycle of reincarnation, and secular views in which...
Artichoke
Recipes & Stories from Singapore's Most Rebellious Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Featuring over 90 recipes with full coloured photos and written in a casual, approachable style, this cookbook makes the perfect gift for fans of Artichoke, Bjorn or uninhibitedly rockin’ food in general. Bjorn Shen, chef-owner of popular and rebellious restaurant Artichoke, reveals the scrappy...
Batting on the Bosphorous
A Liquor-fueled Cricket Tour through Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
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In Batting on the Bosphorus, a hilarious and eccentric traveler’s tale, Scotsman Angus Bell leaves the Montreal magazine industry and sets off in his Skoda to discover a hidden cricketing world across central and Eastern Europe. From Estonia to Crimea, Bell learns that Slavs are playing...
The Social Life of Tibetan Biography
Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The Social Life of Tibetan Biography explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Shri...
by Anil Chawla
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Hinduism existed before Ram as well as Krishn. Hinduism has always been and shall always be. It is truly an eternal religion.
Hinduism is a philosophical system or paradigm which is based on relationship of individual with the cosmos in a non-adversarial manner. Man (including woman) is part...
From Moscow to Stalingrad
The Eastern Front, 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated series, this volume outlines how it was that, less...
Arab Islamic Voices, Agencies, and Abilities
Disability Portrayals in Muslim World Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book explores portrayals and predicaments of the disabled in Arab/Muslim post colonial North African and Middle Eastern societies in genres ranging from classical Arabic scripture to secular popular culture including Francophone Moroccan and Algerian fiction, Egyptian Middle Eastern film, as...