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Product Description: Religious Ways of Experiencing Life: A Global and Narrative Approach surveys world religions, using the narratives and discourses of each tradition to describe it in its own terms. Carl Olson examines each tradition’s practices, teachings, material culture, roles of women, and path to salvation, as well as the experiences of its followers...read more

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9780415706605 | Routledge, February 22, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Religious Ways of Experiencing Life: A Global and Narrative Approach surveys world religions, using the narratives and discourses of each tradition to describe it in its own terms.

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9780415706612 | Routledge, February 16, 2016, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body...read more

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9780190225315 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 3, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power.

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9780190225322 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 3, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power.

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Product Description: This book shows how popular rock songs exemplify religious themes even though it is viewed as being sinful. This volume introduces readers to themes in world religions by studying lyrics and musical motifs from popular rock songs...read more

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9780773439238 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: This book shows how popular rock songs exemplify religious themes even though it is viewed as being sinful.

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Product Description: In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion. During its journey westward, it has changed, adapted to new cultures, and offered spiritual help to many people looking for answers to the problems of life...read more

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9780810871618 | Scarecrow Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion.

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9780810870734 | Scarecrow Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion. During its journey westward, it has changed, adapted to new cultures, and offered spiritual help to many people looking for answers to the problems of life...read more

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9780810857711 | Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2009, cover price $122.00 | About this edition: In the early 21st century, Buddhism has become ubiquitous in America and other western nations, moving beyond the original bodhi tree in India to become a major global religion.

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If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy. An understanding of celibacy, argues Carl Olson, can be a useful way to view the significance of the human body within a social context. The purpose of this book is to examine how the practice of celibacy differs cross-culturally as well as historically within a particular religious tradition. The essays (all previously unpublished) will demonstrate that celibacy is a complex religious phenomenon. The control of sexual desire can be used to divorce oneself from a basic human biological drive, to separate oneself from what is perceived as impure, or to distance oneself from a transient world. Within different religious traditions there can be found the practice of temporary celibacy, commitment to long-term permanent celibacy, and outright condemnations of it. By maintaining a state of virginity, members of some religious traditions imitate divine models; other traditions do not admit the possibility of emulating such paradigms. Whether or not a religious tradition encourages or discourages it, the practice of celibacy gives us insight into its worldview, social values, gender relations, ethics, religious roles, and understanding of the physical body. Celibacy can contribute to the creation of a certain status and play a role in the construction of identity, while serving as a source of charisma. In some religious traditions, it is possible to renounce sex and gain sacred status and economic support from society. Each essay in the collection will be written by an expert in a particular religious tradition. Each will address such questions as: Why do some members of a religious community decide to maintain a celibate style of religious life? Is celibacy a prerequisite for religious office or status? Are there different contexts within a given religious tradition for the practice of celibacy? What does the choice of celibacy tell us about the human body in a particular religious culture? What is the symbolic significance of celibacy? What is its connection to the acquisition of power? What are its physical or spiritual benefits? The first collection of its kind, this book will be a valuable resource for courses in world religions, as well as a contribution to our understanding of this very widespread but puzzling human phenomenon.
By Carl Olson (editor)

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9780195306316 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 7, 2007), cover price $145.00

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9780195306323 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 7, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: If sexuality is inherently social, the same thing can be said about celibacy.

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Bringing together texts from a variety of sectarian traditions, this reader provides the broadest selection of primary source Hindu literature available to date.The volume is divided into two major parts. The first section presents selections that explore major themes in classical Sanskrit traditions, including those in the Vedic, Upanisadic, and Dharma literatures, as well as the classical philosophical-religious schools. The second part includes selections that highlight the sectarian and devotional movements related to major deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Rama, Sant, Tantra, and the goddess figures.In addition to a general introductory chapter on Indian literature, each major section is introduced by an essay that places the selections within the context of Hindu history. This comprehensive reader stands on its own as an indispensable anthology of original textual sources for courses in Hinduism, while also serving as a companion volume to the text The Many Colors of Hinduism: A Thematic-Historical Introduction.
By Carl Olson (editor)

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9780813540696 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Bringing together texts from a variety of sectarian traditions, this reader provides the broadest selection of primary source Hindu literature available to date.

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9780813540702 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $32.95

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Conventional approaches to Hinduism typically stress its classical religious tradition with an emphasis on the Brahmin texts and practices. Frequently neglected are the practices of lower caste Indians, the role of women in the culture, the religious life of village folk, devotion to the deity Rama, and the Sant tradition of North India.The Many Colors of Hinduism is the first introductory text to provide a balanced view of this rich religious tradition, acknowledging the full range of its many competing and even contradictory aspects. Utilizing a thematic-historical approach, Carl Olson draws on a wide array of textual evidence, the fieldwork of anthropologists in close contact with insiders, and voices of thinkers ranging from Indologist Alf Hiltebeitel to Cambridge scholar Julius Lipner. The result is a narrative approach that offers a view of Hinduism that emulates the storytelling nature of the religion itself.Covering ancient times to the present and explaining important cultural metaphors, symbols, and narratives not generally found in other introductory textbooks, Olson offers students a new perspective of a religion that is more varied than most Westerners realize. The Many Colors of Hinduism will be essential reading for undergraduate courses in world or Asian religions.

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9780813540672 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 15, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Conventional approaches to Hinduism typically stress its classical religious tradition with an emphasis on the Brahmin texts and practices.

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9780813540689 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 15, 2007, cover price $28.95

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Product Description: Bringing together essential materials on the origins and development of Buddhist traditions from India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, and Japan, this anthology provides the broadest selection of primary source Buddhist literature available to date...read more
By Carl Olson (editor)

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9780813535630 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Bringing together essential materials on the origins and development of Buddhist traditions from India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, and Japan, this anthology provides the broadest selection of primary source Buddhist literature available to date.

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9780813535647 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $34.95

Hardcover:

9780813535616 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 25, 2005, cover price $65.00

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9780813535623 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 25, 2005, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: This work presents a dialogue between classical and contemporary Indian and postmodern thinkers. Juxtaposing the diverse perspectives of Indian philosophers and philosophies, including Buddhism, Sankara, and Radhakrishnan, and western postmodern thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida, Olson addresses topics such as desire, suffering, the self, and identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195653908 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 19, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This work presents a dialogue between classical and contemporary Indian and postmodern thinkers.

This comprehensive text, highly acclaimed as the premier sourcebook on goddesses, introduces readers of religion to the various manifestations and complex nature of the goddess. Often a stranger to contemporary devotees of monotheistic religions, the goddess forces the recognition of female power, which can transform deeply held beliefs. The recent renewed interest in goddesses and the rise of feminist scholarship are addressed in this well-chosen collection of essays, written by an international group of scholars. The book elucidates the diverse religious cultures and periods of history in which goddesses have played an important role by providing examples of ancient and modern goddesses in Eastern and Western religious traditions, in major world and tribal religions, and in living religions and those no longer practiced.

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9780824505660 | Crossroad Pub Co, September 1, 1983, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: This comprehensive text, highly acclaimed as the premier sourcebook on goddesses, introduces readers of religion to the various manifestations and complex nature of the goddess.

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9781577662730, titled "Book of the Goddess Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion" | Waveland Pr Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $25.95
9780824506896, titled "Book of the Goddess Past and Present: An Introduction to Her Religion" | Crossroad Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive text, highly acclaimed as the premier sourcebook on goddesses, introduces readers of religion to the various manifestations and complex nature of the goddess.

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Product Description: This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791446539 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy.

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9780791446546 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy.

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Product Description: In his essay on the pharmacy of Plato, Jacques Derrida discusses the ambivalence associated with the notion of pharmakon (drug, medicine, or poison) and its ability to either cure or destroy. By allowing the Indian renouncer and selected postmodern thinkers to share the medicine of each party in a cross-cultural exchange of ideas, this work will attempt to cure one's understanding about the several roles played by the renouncer as a stranger, hero figure, androgynous being, and victim of self-sacrificial violence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820430225 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: In his essay on the pharmacy of Plato, Jacques Derrida discusses the ambivalence associated with the notion of pharmakon (drug, medicine, or poison) and its ability to either cure or destroy.

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Product Description: Ramakrishna was a nineteenth-century Bengali devotee of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. He assumed the demeanor and dress of a woman, acted like a monkey, a child, a madman, and a comedian at various times during his career...read more

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9781555403393 | Scholars Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ramakrishna was a nineteenth-century Bengali devotee of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction.

Paperback:

9781555403409 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 2, 1990, cover price $56.00

By Carl Olson (editor)

Hardcover:

9780894713651 | Running Pr Book Pub, November 1, 1985, cover price $33.80

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