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The Fu-tzu : a post-Han Confucian text
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ISSN: 0169832X ISBN: 9004080996 Year: 1987 Volume: vol 13 Publisher: Leiden New York Koebenhavn Brill

Native North American religious traditions : dancing for life
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ISBN: 0275990974 9780275990978 Year: 2007 Publisher: Westport, CT ; London Praeger

The mystic experience
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ISBN: 0791484289 1423740165 9781423740162 0791462501 9780791462508 0791462498 9780791462492 9780791484289 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany, NY State University of New York Press

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The mystic, zero, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self along with everything else—is considered by those who have had it to be the most beautiful, blissful, positive, profound, and significant experience of their lives. Offering both a descriptive and a comparative perspective, this book explores the mystic experience across cultures as both a human and cultural event. The book begins and ends with descriptions of the author's own mystical experiences, and looks at self-reported experiences by individuals who do not link their experiences to a religious tradition, to determine characteristics of this universal human experience.These characteristics are compared to statements of acknowledged mystics in diverse religious traditions. The mystic experience is also situated within other ecstatic religious experiences to distinguish it from similar, but distinct, experiences such as lucid dreams, shamanism, and mediumism. Jordan Paper goes on to look at how the mystic experience has been considered in various fields, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, and comparative religious studies.

Theaters of time and space : American planetaria, 1930-1970
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ISBN: 1280462833 9786610462834 0813537665 9780813537665 081353576X 9780813535760 9781280462832 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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Every year, millions of Americans visit planetariums and are captivated by their strikingly realistic portrayal of the night sky. Today, it is indeed difficult to imagine astronomy education without these magnificent celestial theaters. But projection planetariums, first developed in Germany, have been a part of American museum pedagogy only since the early twentieth century and were not widespread until the 1960's. In this unique social history, former planetarium director and historian of science Jordan D. Marché II offers

The deities are many : a polytheistic theology
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ISBN: 0791483622 1423743938 9781423743934 0791463877 9780791463871 0791463885 9780791463888 9780791483626 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide into this milieu. Paper was drawn to polytheism through his love of nature, seeing it as a source of the divine. In this book he focuses on Chinese and Native American religious traditions, as well as West African, African-Brazilian, Hindu, Polynesian, and circum-Polar traditions, to describe the theology of polytheism. The book provides a topology of polytheistic deities, focusing on the cosmic couple, Father Sky and Mother Earth; animal, plant, and mineral deities; ancestral spirits; divine ghosts; and culture heroes and tricksters. Paper also shows how monotheists misunderstand polytheism and provides a polytheist perspective on what it means to be human when the "deities are many." This is a fascinating, illuminating book, especially for those raised in monotheistic societies.


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An inch or two of time
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ISBN: 0271071974 9780271071978 9780271066417 0271066415 0271071958 Year: 2015 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania

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"Explores the metaphorical power of time and space in Jewish modernist poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish as a response to the experience of exile and landlessness, and as a means of furthering modernism's exploration of the self and its relation to community, nation, and the world"--Provided by publisher.


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A Rhetorical Conversation
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ISBN: 0271078146 9780271078144 0271036303 9780271036304 Year: 2010 Publisher: University Park, PA

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"Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature"--Provided by publisher.


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The chemistry of nucleic acids
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Year: 1960 Publisher: London : Butterworths,

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