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Who Wants to Kill Bonaparte?
Where Tom Clancy meets Napoleon Philippe Bornet, the brilliant author of this historical novel, a story of military strategy and written in true Clancy style, tells everything about the historical event that lead to Napoleon’s epic destiny. With a perfect balance of suspense and historical accuracy, the author gives an astonishing account of the siege of Toulon, the battle during which Bonaparte displayed his military genius for the first time and offered the young French Republic a decisive success against the enemies of the French revolution. To this day, this was considered to be the first act of his legend.
Religions in Play
Often dismissed as "not serious", the notion of play has nevertheless been at the centre of classical theories of religion and ritual (Huizinga, Caillois, Turner, Staal, etc.). What can be retained of those theories for the contemporary study of religions? Can a study of "play" or "game" bring new perspectives for the study of religions? The book deals with the history of games and their relation to religions, the links between divination and games, the relations between sport and ritual, the pedagogical functions of games in religious education, and the interaction between games, media and religions. Richly illustrated, the book contributes to the study of religions, to ritual, game and media studies, and addresses an academic as well as a general public. Philippe Bornet, Dr. Phil., born in 1977, is Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the Faculty of Lettres of the University of Lausanne, with focus on the history of interrelations between India and Europe. Maya Burger is Professor of Indian Studies and History of Religions at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Translocal Lives and Religion
From comparative to connected religion : (non-)traveling literati and literatures between Asia and Europe (19-20th Centuries) / Philippe Bornet -- In-between? Religiosity : European Kali-Bhakti in early Colonial Calcutta / Gautam Chakrabarti -- The making of the ideal transnational disciple : unravelling biographies of Margaret Noble/Sister Nivedita / Gwilym Beckerlegge -- The curious case of the Drs. D'Abreu : Catholicism, migration and a Kanara Catholic family in the heart of the empire, 1890-1950 / Dwayne Ryan Menezes -- Religion and the "simple life" : Dugald Semple and translocal "life reform" networks / Steven Sutcliffe -- Re-discovering Buddha's land : the transnational formative years of China's indology / Minyu Zhang -- Charles Pfoundes and the forgotten first Buddhist mission to the West, London 1889 / Brian Bocking -- Travelling through interstitial spaces : the radical spiritual journeys of Pandita Mary Ramabai Saraswathi / Parinitha Shetty -- A "Christian Hindu Apostle?" : The multiple lives of Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) / Philippe Bornet -- The Chen Jianmin (1906-1987) legacy : an "always on the move" Buddhist practice / Fabienne Jagou.
The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies
This handbook is the first collection of comprehensive teaching materials for teachers and students of Central Asian Studies (CAS) with a strong pedagogic dimension. It presents 22 chapters, clustered around five themes, with contributions from more than 19 scholars, all leading experts in the field of CAS and Eurasian Studies. This collection is not only a reference work for scholars branching out to different disciplines of CAS but also for scholars from other disciplines broadening their scope to CAS. It addresses post-colonial frameworks and also untangles topics from their ‘Soviet’ reference frame. It aims to de-exoticize the region and draws parallels to European or to historically...
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Photographing Central Asia
This volume addresses new theoretical approaches in visual and memory studies that prompted to rethink of the photography of Russian Turkestan of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Attempts to relate the visual unknown documentations to postcolonial criticism also opened up new interpretive arenas, helping to decentralize the analysis of the history of photography. The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the authors reveal the dif...
Dynamics of Religion
Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa; 2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today’s Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.
A Companion to Comparative Theology
This Companion to Comparative Theology offers a survey of historical developments, contemporary approaches and future directions in a field of theology that has experienced rapid growth and expansion in the past decades.
Strangers with God
These pages represent the compendium of a long journey of more than twenty-five years. It would be simplistic to define this journey as exclusively intellectual, because it would be unthinkable without frequent visits to the Middle East, in particular to Turkey, the second Holy Land of Christianity, the ancient Asia Minor of biblical history, with its overwhelming Muslim population today. The fact is that, since many years now, the theme of hospitality has been the subject of numerous publications, studies, contributions and gatherings with protagonists of various opinions and expertise convening to give answers to questions related to the challenge of living together in the complex society ...
“Masters” and “Natives”
The book focuses on the relational dynamic between “masters” and “natives” in the construction of scholarly narratives about the past, in the fields of archeology, history or the study of religions. Reconsidering the role of subaltern actors that recent postcolonial studies have tended to ignore, the present book emphasizes the complex relations between representatives of the imperial power and local actors, and analyzes how masters and natives (and their respective cultures) have shaped each other in the course of the interaction. Through various vectors of intercultural transfer and knowledge exchange, through the circulation of ideas, techniques and human beings, new visions of the past of extra-European regions emerged, as did collective memories resulting from various kinds of appropriations. In this framework, the most important question is how these dynamic processes determined collective memories of the past in plural (post-)colonial – in particular, Asian – worlds, participating to the construction of national/imperial/local identities and to the reinvention of traditions.
