Sacrifice And Rebirth

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This “splintered war memory,” where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.

With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.

This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

In this, the gripping conclusion of the Gatekeeper Series by author Kenneth Cary, the real work begins for John and his company of survivors as they attempt to travel west across the country in hopes of reaching sanctuary in the Rocky Mountains. Many threats and dangers await the company, but none more perilous than an enemy who possesses an ability to draw upon dark spiritual powers to destroy them. When all seems lost, and the company's survival hangs by a thread, John is awakened to his spiritual history and physically reborn to perform an important mission for God. Filled with light and new spiritual gifts, he must overcome opposition and rally his company of travelers. They resume their difficult journey to sanctuary and join up with other travelers who love and serve God as they do.Upon reaching sanctuary, John discovers that it's only the beginning of his journey across a spiritual landscape fraught with obstacles and evil men. John, as a counterbalance to evil and darkness on Earth, joins forces with another to lay the foundation for the Savior's second coming and ultimate victory.

This is the most comprehensive study yet made of tapas and of asceticism during the Vedic period. It also explains three other essential components of Vedic thought: sacrifice, homology, and knowledge. These concepts, along with tapas and initiation symbolism, reveal the heart of Vedic religion. therefore, this study presents a “history of Vedic religion,” organized around the central building blocks of that tradition.

Through the theme of metempsychosis as discussed by scholars in Renaissance Italy, this book addresses the problematic question of the roles of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.

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Ultimate truth. The destiny of souls. The individual heart. Can Krishna and Jesus agree on anything? This is what Subramaniam, a real-life Hindu of the twentieth century, wonders as he enters a fictitious conversation between two religious figures who have changed the lives of millions. As Jesus and Krishna respond to each other’s view of life and the afterlife, they speak words straight from the texts of Christianity and Hinduism and straight into the soul. Subramaniam asks Jesus and Krishna hard questions about faith. Meanwhile, a fictional character, Richard, eavesdrops, asking himself the most important question of all: Does it really matter what I believe?