World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan 9780197669884

A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism 9780674369122

As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christi

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The raven crown : the origins of Buddhist monarchy in Bhutan 9780906026328, 0906026326

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Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo 9780801462474

Chodat exposes a major shortcoming in recent accounts of twentieth-century discourse, arguing that what is often seen as

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Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: the Persistence of Agency from Stein to Delillo 9780801446788, 0801446783

Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient thi

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Becoming Buddhist: Experiences of Socialization and Self-Transformation in Two Australian Buddhist Centres 9781472548856, 9781441161451

What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian affiliates of two Western Buddhist ce

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The Blessings of Bhutan 9780824844769

"A captivating and splendid account of a complex nation on the cusp of tradition and modernity. Bhutan is distincti

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Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon 9780231540193

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical resear

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Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations 9781845458836

Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the c

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The End of the World: Wrath of the Gods 9781633441880

The supernatural enters the physical world in Wrath of the Gods, the second book in The End of the World roleplaying lin

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Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World 9780822398035

Where most models of democratic ethics have focused on either care for the self or care for others, Ella Myers advocates

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