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The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today. This inwardness or interiority unique to me as an essential feature of who I am has been an aspect of culture and even a defining characteristic of human being; an authentic, private sphere to which we can retreat that is beyond the conflicts of the outer world. This inner world becomes more real than the outer, which is seen as but a pale reflection. Remarkably, the image of the truth within is found across cultures, and this book presents an account of this idea in the pre-modern history of Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Furthermore, in theistic religions, Christianity, and some forms of Hinduism, the truth within is conflated with the idea of God within, and in all cases this inner truth is thought to be not only the heart of the person, but also the heart of the universe itself. Gavin Flood examines the metaphor of inwardness and the idea of truth within, along with the methods developed in religions to attain it such as prayer and meditation. These views of inwardness that link the self to cosmology can be contrasted with a modern understanding of the person. In examining the truth within in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, Flood offers a hermeneutical phenomenology of inwardness and a defence of comparative religion.
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9780199684564 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 31, 2013, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The idea that there is a truth within the person linked to the discovery of a deeper, more fundamental, more authentic self has been a common theme in many religions throughout history and an idea that is still with us today.
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9780198745211 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 24, 2015), cover price $40.00
Product Description: In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, Gregory Shushan analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica)...read more
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9780826440730 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 10, 2009, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, Gregory Shushan analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).
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9781441130884 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 22, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In an original and innovative piece of comparative research, Gregory Shushan analyses afterlife conceptions in five ancient civilisations (Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).
Product Description: The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation...read more
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9781405189729 | Blackwell Pub, January 3, 2012, cover price $97.95 | About this edition: The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation
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9781405189712 | Blackwell Pub, January 3, 2012, cover price $34.95
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9781444399042 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, November 7, 2011), cover price $84.95
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9780826499660 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 30, 2011, cover price $190.00
Product Description: Partiendo de las pregunta 'Qué es el hinduismo?' el Dr. Flood sigue las huellas del desarrollo de las tradiciones hindúes desde sus primeros momentos, pasando por el estudio de las divinidades principales, hasta desembocar en la materialización de la religión en el mundo actual...read more
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9788446028390 | Akal Ediciones Sa, June 30, 2008, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Partiendo de las pregunta 'Qué es el hinduismo?
Product Description: Una interesante introducción a la tradición tántrica. El tantra ¿es sólo una práctica sexual esotérica o es algo más? Este libro original y fascinante nos desvela sus misterios, exponiendo la concepción del cuerpo en el pensamiento y la práctica hindú en la India...read more
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9788449321450 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 15, 2008), cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Una interesante introducción a la tradición tántrica.
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