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  • Son of the Axe

    by D. P. Martinez ...
    The past whispers. He just started listening.Jacob Machado's life looks perfect on the outside—steady job, loving wife, close friends—but something is missing. When he acquires a cursed twelfth-century axe once wielded by an ancestor, he's pulled into a haunting search for identity and legacy.As visions blur past and present, Jacob must choose: break the curse and lose his connection to history, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ceremony and Ritual in Japan

    Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society

    Edited by D. P. Martinez, Jan Van Bremen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Documenting the Beijing Olympics

    Edited by D.P. Martinez, Kevin Latham ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

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    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    by Alan MacFarlane ...
    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

    Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really ... Read more

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  • Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism

    A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion

    by Torkel Brekke ...
    Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into ... Read more

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  • The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan

    Bodies Re-Presenting the Past

    by Etsuko Kato ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Beyond Enlightenment

    Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

    by Richard Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates ... Read more

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  • The Power of Tantra

    Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies

    by Hugh B. Urban ...
    In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock. For European colonizers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved example of the worst tendencies of the so-called 'Indian mind': a pathological mixture of sensuality ... Read more

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  • The Return of Polyandry

    Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

    by Heidi E. Fjeld ...
    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan communities. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in ... Read more

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  • Yoga in the Modern World

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Singleton, Jean Byrne ...
    Series series Routledge Hindu Studies Series
    Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home, work, yoga studios and temples. The yoga diaspora began well over a hundred years ago and we continue to see new manifestations and uses of Yoga in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD