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Pages: 500
Authors: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-06 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From
Fragile Finitude
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Michael Fishbane
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language th
Contingency and the Limits of History
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Liane Carlson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-30 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche a
Strange Wonder
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Authors: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, th
The Invention of Religion in Japan
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Jason Ānanda Josephson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. B