Comparative Religions
Asceticism and the New Testament
The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.
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Tibetan Independence Movement
Tibet has been occupied for over fifty years. This book presents the first serious political analysis of the Tibetan independence movement. It is also the first to view the Tibetan struggle from a comparative perspective.
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Freedom of Religion and Belief
This comparative report, the first of its kind yet to be published, provides a detailed account of how the individual's right to hold beliefs is understood, protected or denied throughout the world.
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Ethnicity in Asia
A comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at core issues such as ethnic minorities and groups, population, language, culture and traditional religion.
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Myth Into Art
Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the artistic side, the emphasis is on Athenian and South Italian vases.
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Westward Dharma
The first authoritative volume on the totality of Buddhism in the West, Westward Dharma establishes a comparative and theoretical perspective for considering the amazing variety of Buddhist traditions, schools, centers, and teachers that have developed outside of Asia.
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