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| RELIGIONS | Spring 2010 |
pp. 176 with 29 b/w illustrations Euro 22,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40864-7 |
L’ANTROPOLOGIA RELIGIOSA DI FRONTE ALLE ESPRESSIONI DELLA CULTURA E DELL'ARTE Acts of the international congress in honor of Julien Ries Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, February the 19th 2008 Edited by Natale Spineto After this congress, the Catholic University of Milan decided to create the Julien Ries Archive for Symbolic Anthropology to which the author donated the original versions of his works, of his personal archive and of that part of his library dedicated to this subject. The Anthropology of Religions is a new discipline that becomes an operational tool for scholars of Philosophy, Political Science, Art History, and many other sciences. Those who took part in this congress personally tested, within the fields where they operate, some elements taken from this Anthropology of Religion outlined by Ries. |
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TRATTATO DI ANTROPOLOGIA DEL SACRO (TAS) Directed by Julien Ries and co-directed by Lawrence E. Sullivan With the Trattato di Antropologia del Sacro, Julien Ries together with over fifty professors from all over the world, contributes to the birth of a new Anthropology of Religion contaminated with History of Religions, History, History of Culture, Prehistory and Paleoanthropology, Ethnology, Sociology. Complete Plan of the TAS series: |
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Hardbound with jacket pp. 354 Euro 48,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40905-7 |
TAS- Vol. 10 METAMORFOSI DEL SACRO ACCULTURAZIONE, INCULTURAZIONE, SINCRETISMO, FONDAMENTALISMO Directed by Julien Ries The TAS comes, with its 10th volume, to the conclusion of the first edition directed by Julien Ries in collaboration with Lawrence Sullivan. This volume, despite dealing with various historical contexts, addresses the topic of the metamorphosis of the sacred as a more and more relevant element in the knowledge of our time. The four phenomena around which this volume revolves – acculturation, enculturation, syncretism and fundamentalism – document the changes in shape, nature and structure that the experience of the sacred can undergo throughout its historical and cultural development. |
Hardbound with jacket pp. 320 Euro 42,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40487-8 |
TAS - Vol. 9 GIAPPONE GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE Directed by Julien Ries This volume traces the essential coordinates of Japanese anthropology of religion. It speaks about the places of the sacred, about the importance of the human body and of its energies. The starting point is Shinto and the explanation of the core terms related to it, such as Shinto, Kami, Tatari and Sumi. Then, the discussion passes on to Buddhism, arrived in Japan in 552, to those hybrids born from the cross-fertilisation between Shinto and Buddhism and to the other two main forms of Buddhism arrived from China: Amidism and Zen. |
Hardbound with jacket pp. 256 Euro 42,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40814-2 |
TAS - Vol. 8 CINA GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE Directed by Julien Ries This book offers a comprehensive view of the sacred in China and deepens some of its core aspects first dealing with China’s great traditions – Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism – and then analysing the contributions of Christians (22 million) and Muslims (18 million) and of the many ethnic minorities that have their own characteristics and sacred places diversely intertwined with the predominant Chinese tradition. The first part of this book is about the holy places such as the mountain – dominant symbol of the Chinese tradition; the second part is about the other rituals available that contribute to making the sacred omnipresent. |
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Julien Ries COLLECTED WORKS 12 volumes The first volume (tome 1 and tome 2) is about the relationship between Christianity and the other religions and the themes of dialogue and interculturalism. Volume II, III and IV are dedicated to the fundamental Anthropology of Religion; volume V and VI include Religious Science and Comparative Religion too. In 2010 and 2011, special volumes on Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Mithraism, Osirism and Eastern doctrines on sovereignty, will be published. Complete plan of the Collected Works by Julien Ries (* published volumes) |
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Hardbound with jacket pp. 386 Euro 48,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40899-9 |
Julien Ries COLLECTED WORKS - Volume I, Tome 2 INCONTRO E DIALOGO CRISTIANESIMO, RELIGIONI E CULTURE Ries traces the history of the encounter between Christianity and the other religions, from St. Paul’s preaching until nowadays, focusing on the role played by the Humanists, on the characteristics of the Catholic missions and on the innovations of the II Vatican Council. The topic of the interreligious dialogue leads him to the analysis of those contemporary phenomena such as syncretism and the new religious movements, the pluralism of creeds, enculturation and acculturation. Throughout a series of articles, written with the purpose of engaging in a dialogue with the younger generations, he addresses some of the most urgent matters for religious modern men, as the topic of the relationship between religion and culture, the issues related to theology, the tolerance, the preaching of the Gospels, the revolution of the ’68 and its heritage. |
Hardbound with jacket pp. 224 Euro 35,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40850-0 |
Julien Ries Collected Works - Volume VI LA STORIA COMPARATA DELLE RELIGIONI E L’ERMENEUTICA Julien Ries sets out by showing, through a historiographical close examination, how the issue of comparison has become more and more relevant and how the main historians have dealt with it. On the basis of their research, Anthropology of Religion intends to understand and convey the message brought by the homo religiosus throughout the millenniums and to outline the aspects of that relationship that involves men and the sacred and that expresses itself in the religious phenomena. The case of the symbols of the cross and of light, studied in their endless richness, eloquently demonstrates the modus operandi of Ries’ hermeneutic. |
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Raimon Panikkar COLLECTED WORKS 12 volumes edited by Milena Carrara Pavan This edition by Jaca Book is the author’s legacy in his organised and updated works, edited by Milena Carrara Pavan. They will be divided into 12 volumes of 16 tomes each, excluding the journals and the letters. The Italian edition is therefore to be considered the original edition of the collected works (a Catalan edition is being publishes as well, starting from the Italian one). Each volume (and tome) comes with a new introduction on the genesis and contents of the works. Complete plan of the Collected Works by Raimon Panikkar (* published volumes) |
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Hardbound with jacket pp. 448 Euro 48,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40897-5 |
Raimon Panikkar COLLECTED WORKS - Volume VI, Tome 1 PLURALISMO E INTERCULTURALITÀ CULTURE E RELIGIONI IN DIALOGO Despite the noble intension behind it, the global village syndrome is nevertheless the result of a colonial mentality. “If on one hand we think we are right and the others are wrong, on the other one we think we are all suitable for a global village. Between these two extremes, the words pluralism and interculturality have become more and more apt to represent a third attitude, foundation to a universal understanding”. |
pp. 240 DVD included Euro 28,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40893-7 |
I MISTICI NELLE GRANDI TRADIZIONI OMAGGIO A RAIMON PANIKKAR Edited by Milena Carrara Pavan This collection of works on the mystics of the different traditions springs from the homage to Raimon Panikkar wanted by many friends and scholars all over the world on the occasion of the congress of Venice in May 2008 to celebrate his 90th birthday. With this volume we would like to celebrate the mystics coming from different traditions and who, like Panikkar, looked for the Self, becoming this way a datum point for those who are still searching for it. The book comes with a DVD of Panikkar’s Venice experience. A souvenir to all who took part into the congress and a gift to those who could not make it. |
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ENCICLOPEDIA DELLE RELIGIONI The European thematic edition in 17 volumes directed by Mircea Eliade from an original project by Ioan P. Couliano Jaca Book had received from Mircea Eliade and Ioan Couliano the tables of contents to write an European thematic edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion formerly published by MacMillan. Eliade and Couliano had maintained the original outlines reorganizing the single independent dictionaries. Five volumes with cross-references and eleven volumes on religions and cultural areas (plus index). The European edition (which is currently available in Italian) is edited by Dario M. Cosi, Luigi Saibene and Roberto Scagno. Complete Plan of the Enciclopedia delle Religioni (*published volumes) |
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Hardbound with jacket pp. 332 Euro 140,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-41014-5 |
ENCICLOPEDIA DELLE RELIGIONI - Volume 14 RELIGIONI DELL'AFRICA Directed by Mircea Eliade This volume (about 500 columns, 70 entries), dedicated to those phenomena linked to religion in Africa, has a very diverse nature due to the peculiar historical vicissitudes of this continent. As Africa is the point of connection between many native religions and the great missionary religions coming from abroad, the table of contents of this work alternates, in alphabetical order, entries relative to the entire continent or to parts of it, to more specific entries dedicated to monotheistic religions in Africa and to proper African religions. Other entries instead deal with the main gods worshipped by the African population, and with the biographies of many prophets and founders of millenarian creeds or of independent Churches that pinned down the religious history of this continent in a very peculiar way. Finally, there are a few voices dedicated to those African phenomena and ideas, spread all over the religious world (Soul, Iconography, Magic, Masks, Music, Sovereignty, Witchcraft, Theatre, Trickster) and a few entries that describe those religious phenomena that are exclusively African as the Cults of grievance. |
24×30 cm Hardbound with jacket with 315 colour illustrations pp. 242 Euro 80,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-60420-9 |
Gérard-Henry Baudry SIMBOLI CRISTIANI DELLE ORIGINI I-VII SECOLO This work is an introduction to the world of symbols of the early age of Christianity until the 7th century, considering each “visual” symbol and not those expressed only in oral or literary form. The volume deals with all those symbols connected to daily and social life as well as the relationship between nature and cosmos. While is inserted into already-existing cultures, Christianity develops and transforms their symbols. The works of art and the symbols mentioned in this volume and reproduced in full colour make up probably the widest iconographical synthesis for such an introductive text. |
pp. 224 Euro 18,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40706-0 |
Davide Domenici I LINGUAGGI DEL POTERE ARTE E PROPAGANDA NELL’ANTICA MESOAMERICA In the Mesoamerican world, where written communication was a privilege granted to a small intellectual elite, most public communications – political and religious – happened through art. Most of the works of art were produced to glorify the governors’ power, a kind of power that was absolute and drenched with holiness. An archaeological research on the field, historical data and the urge for a theoretical clarification are intertwined in this book which, thanks to its immediacy and accessibility, is also a valuable introduction to the great historical adventure of Mesoamerica. |
pp. 224 Euro 20,00 ISBN: 978-88-16-40754-9 |
Michela Craveri VOCI E CANTI DELLA CIVILTÀ MAYA This book is a journey through the Mayas’ main poetry books, starting from the creation of man and the universe, to lyrical poems, to theatre, prophetic books, historical narrations and prayers that the Mayas, still nowadays, sing to their gods. The depth of the symbolic universe and the peculiar rhetorical expressions testify the creativity of the Mayan culture and their ability of renewal and conservation despite the cultural and political atmosphere of oppression they live in. |
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