Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism
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Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the...
Chinese ZEN: A Path to Peace and Happiness
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In Chinese Zen, author Prof. Yansheng shows how Zen, with its universal concern for the human...
Communion of Churches and Petrine Ministry: Lutheran-Catholic Convergences
Group of Farfa Sabina, Peder Norgaard-Hojen, James F. Puglisi and Paul Misner
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The Roman Catholic papacy has long been a thorny issue dividing the ecumenical church. In this book...
Evangelicalism
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Popular Evangelicalism in American Culture explores the controversies, complexities, and historical...
Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Christopher Bamford, Kevin Townley and Pir Zia Inayat Khan
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A series of gatherings took place in 2006 to discuss the contemporary relevance of the ancient...
Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity
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Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical...
Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sport
Gamal Abdel-Shehid and Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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High-performance sport, like other social and cultural formations, is a site of social, economic and...
The Blessed Virgin Mary
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This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church's thinking about...
Cosmic Paradoxes
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Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, paradoxes such as the missing mass, dark energy, baryon...
Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings: 2017
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Differential and complex geometry are two central areas of mathematics with a long and intertwined...