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An Introduction to Hinduism
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This book provides a much-needed thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of the majority of people in India. Dr Flood traces the development of Hindu traditions from their ancient origins, through the major deities of Visnu, Siva and the Goddess, to the modern world. Hinduism is discussed as both a global religion and a form ...
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Blackwell Companion to Hinduism
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This volume presents the most recent scholarly thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. While comprehensively covering the textual traditions of Hinduism, the volume also includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses ...
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The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion
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Gavin Flood
Tantra is the Hindu-based religion which links ecstatic sexual practice with meditation and direct spiritual experience. It originated in India some 1200 years ago, when the great sacred erotic temples were built. In the West it is best known for its inspiration of tantric yoga, and its associated ritualistic forms of sex. But is tantra just about ...
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The Ascetic Self
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Gavin D Flood
This book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition. Such ...
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Photoshop Elements 2 Face Makeovers
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Gavin Cromhout, Josh Fallon, Nathan Flood
Whether one wants to create cool personalized birthday cards, give the ultimate fantasy makeover, or just play around with loved ones' features, "Photoshop Elements 2 Face Makeovers" gives the fun of digital photography a familiar face and comes with all the source files on the jam-packed accompanying CD-ROM.
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Beyond Phenomenology
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Gavin D Flood
The aims of this book are to examine the interface between religious studies, critical social theory and cultural theory and to argue for a discourse within religious studies which draws from, and contributes to, wider intellectual debates in the humanities and social sciences. In the context of postmodern criticism, the book seeks to address or ...
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Photoshop Face to Face
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El Hinduismo
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Gavin D. Flood
Partiendo de las pregunta 'Que es el hinduismo?' el Dr. Flood sigue las huellas del desarrollo de las tradiciones hindues desde sus primeros momentos, pasando por el estudio de las divinidades principales, hasta desembocar en la materializacion de la religion en el mundo actual. Estudia el hinduismo a la par como religion mundial y como forma de ...
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Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion
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Gavin D Flood
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth ...
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Body and Cosmology in Kashmir Saivism
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Gavin D Flood
"Kashmir Saivism" refers to monistic Hindu Saiva traditions which developed from the 9th to 11th centuries B.C. This book places the idea of the "body" in the Saiva world of religious meaning by showing how Siva, equated with pure consciousness, is thought to become embodied in the universe through a process of emanation. The text seeks to show ...
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El cuerpo tantrico/ The Trantic Body: La tradicion secreta de la religion hindu/ The Secret Tradition of the Indian Religion
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Gavin Flood
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