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This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief aims are to contribute to the present state of research by adding essential findings on newly discovered historical documents; to present a multi-dimensional investigation of diverse aspects including the history, religion, art, literature, and social life along the Silk Road; and to outline potential future research directions for non-Han literature studies and inspire research into other aspects, such as economics and comparative studies.

Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- Asia—History. --- Religion—History. --- Archaeology. --- Philology. --- Asian History. --- History of Religion. --- Modern Languages. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Religion --- History. --- Asia --- Religious history

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This book offers an engaging study of the making of history of religions as an academic discipline in late 19th and early 20th century Europe. By studying the work of Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) - a French Catholic modernist priest and later professor of history of religions - and his interactions with contemporary scholars, it explores the maturation of the field and how it helped to define a new sense of identity in a rapdily secularizing society.

Religion --- 2 LOISY, ALFRED --- 2 LOISY, ALFRED Godsdienst. Theologie--LOISY, ALFRED --- Godsdienst. Theologie--LOISY, ALFRED --- Religious history --- History --- Loisy, Alfred, --- Loisy, Alfred Firmin, --- Loisy, --- Loisy, A. --- Histoire des religions --- History. --- Historiography --- Loisy, Alfred

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia’s past but also its present.

Hinduism --- Islam --- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. --- Relations --- Islam. --- Sacred books --- Translating --- History. --- Hinduism. --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- ancient india. --- early modern india. --- hindu sanskrit texts. --- hinduism. --- history. --- indian history. --- intellectual history. --- islam. --- islamic intellectuals. --- jug basisht. --- laghu yoga vasistha. --- metaphysics. --- mughal south asia. --- mughal. --- nonfiction. --- persian. --- religion. --- religious diversity. --- religious history. --- religious studies. --- sanskrit. --- south asia. --- spirituality. --- sufi. --- translation movement. --- translations. --- yoga vasistha.

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This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the Renaissance and on to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, this was a time when religious scholarship was updated with the discoveries of the New World and colonial expansion. These chapters present new work, shedding light on the interplay of philosophy and theology in key thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Bayle and Spinoza, but also in less known authors such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Sebastian Castellio. Readers will discover analysis of the reshaping of specific theological issues, focussing on the reception of ancient philosophical traditions such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and scepticism. The authors investigate the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes and philosophers of antiquity and the ‘new philosophy’. Above all, this book enables exploration of the ways in which discussions of the salvation and virtues of pagans intersected with the early modern reception of ancient philosophy, including a reassessment of the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period. Students and faculty working on early modern intellectual history will find that this book both inspires and enriches their knowledge. Those with an interest in Renaissance humanism, the history of early modern philosophy and science, in theology, or the history of religion will also appreciate the new contributions that it makes.

Salvation. --- Salvation --- Religion --- Philosophy. --- Religion—Philosophy. --- Modern philosophy. --- Intellectual life—History. --- Religion—History. --- History of Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Intellectual Studies. --- History of Religion. --- Modern philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Intellectual life --- Early Modern Philosophy. --- Intellectual History. --- Religious history --- Intellectual history --- History.

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“This is the very first analysis of the precise relationship between the two major expressions of modern Western counter-cultural spirituality: spiritual feminism and Paganism. Based on a most extensive body of primary material which has never hitherto been employed by scholars before, it is at once an important pioneering venture, a triumph of objective and sympathetic scholarship, and a fascinating read.” —Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol, UK. This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and Wiccan-derived Pagans reacted to the rise of 'second-wave' feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement in the UK – with a special emphasis on the reception of feminist theory hailing from the USA – and to the emergence of feminist branches of Witchcraft and Goddess Spirituality during the 1970s and 1980s. The book draws on primary sources never before analyzed in an academic context and makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of knowledge on gender and religion during the twentieth century, as very little research has been conducted on the relations between the history of modern Paganism and that of second-wave feminism in the UK. Shai Feraro is an Adjunct Lecturer at Oranim College of Education, Israel. He has published two edited collections with Palgrave in the past: Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel (2016); and Magic and Witchery in the Modern West(2019).

Women --- Social conditions. --- Feminism --- Great Britain—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Social history. --- Religion—History. --- Women. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Cultural History. --- Social History. --- History of Religion. --- Women's Studies. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Civilization --- Religion --- History. --- Great Britain --- Religious history --- Cultural history --- England