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“john cb webster”

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  • The Nirankari Sikhs

    by John C.B. Webster ...
    This is a new edition of Dr. Webster's, The Nirankari Sikhs (1979), which has been recognized as 'single most important work on the history of Baba Dayal and his successors'. It updates the earlier edition not only by dealing with the past forty years of Nirankari history but also by taking into account subsequent scholarship on the history of Sikhism, especially during the first half of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Social History of Christianity

    North-west India since 1800

    by John C.B. Webster ...
    Series series Oxford India Paperbacks
    The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by Indian social realities than by missionary designs. This book presents a comprehensive social history of Christianity in north-west India, comprising Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Basics of Hinduism

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  • Sikhism - Simple Guides

    by Sewa Singh Kalsi ...
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  • Unspoken History of India of Six-Thousand Years

    by Anand Mohun Sinha ...
    An evolved civilization existed in India, much before the advent of Roman, Greek, Egyptian or Chinese civilizations in this world. And, yet, India is the only country among them, which went into subjugation, in the last millennium. This book gives an insight into its reasons. It also brings out, why Indians are brilliant individually, but collectively, they belong to a third world country. It ... Read more

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  • Why I Am a Hindu

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Shashi Tharoor offers a profound re-examination of Hinduism, one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions.Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts — including Vedanta, the Purusharthas, and Bhakti — before focusing on texts such as the Bhagadvagita. The 'Great Souls', or key individuals of ... Read more

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    by Klaus K. Klostermaier ...
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    A fresh introduction to an ancient religionExplaining the origins, beliefs, scriptures and philosophies of this ancient religion, Klaus K. Klostermaier succeeds in capturing the rich diversity of rituals and gods that comprise Hinduism, while keeping the tone both engaging and informative. Covering contemporary issues such as the relationship between Hinduism and modern Western ideas, and imminent ... Read more

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  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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    by Donald S. Lopez ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious
    How an eccentric spiritualist from Trenton, New Jersey, helped create the most famous text of Tibetan BuddhismThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's ... Read more

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  • Sikhism - An Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by Owen Cole ...
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    An ideal introduction to the history of Buddhism. Andrew Skilton - a writer on and practitioner of Buddhism - explains the development of the basic concepts of Buddhism during its 2,500 years of history and describes its varied developments in India, Buddhism's homeland, as well as its spread across Asia, from Mongolia to Sri Lanka and from Japan to the Middle East. A fascinating insight into the ... Read more

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