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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Text in English. 402 pp. Slightly skewed spine. The main aims of the study of religions are to explore, understand and report on different kinds of religious phenomena as well as the religious experiences of people living in different cultures. The realization of these aims often entails travelling to other countries and cultures. This book is dedicated, on his sixtieth birthday, to Professor René Gothóni, whose main scholarly interests have focused on pilgrimage and monasticism, both within Buddhism (Sri Lanka) and Orthodox Christianity (Mount Athos; Greece). Living in the field and meeting people of different religions and cultures have led him to question and theorize the limits and ways of understanding the thoughts and experiences of others. Reflecting Professor Gothóni's research interests, this collection of articles falls into three parts, namely Understanding, Ethnography, and Pilgrimage and Monasticism. The contributors to the book comprise friends, colleagues and students who wish to honour his scholarly achievement with this Festschrift.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Helsinki Study of Religions: A Reader brings together a selection of articles written by scholars who have been active researching and teaching the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki during recent years and, in some cases, even over several decades. The writers are in various ways affiliated to the discipline and represent scholars in different career phases: professors and other permanent faculty members, project researchers and doctors who have defended their dissertations in Helsinki. The selection succeeds in exemplifying the variety of topics addressed and approaches pursued in the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. The introduction provides an historical and institutional framework and background to the discipline in Helsinki. Text in English. 492 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. This book is dedicated, on his sixtieth birthday, to Professor René Gothóni, whose main scholarly interests have focused on pilgrimage and monasticism, both within Buddhism (Sri Lanka) and Orthodox Christianity (Mount Athos; Greece). Living in the field and meeting people of different religions and cultures have led him to question and theorize the limits and ways of understanding the thoughts and experiences of others. This collection of articles falls into three parts, namely Understanding, Ethnography, and Pilgrimage and Monasticism. Contents: Personalia / Raili Gothóni -- Monasticism and pilgrimage as scientific interests / Nils G. Holm -- Philosophical hermeutics and its significance for the study of religion / Jean Grondin -- Heidegger and gadamer / Tarmo Kunnas -- The secret of Madame Edwarda / Elisa Heinämäki -- Past meaning and present significance / Alexandra Bergholm -- "The essence of insanity is love" : Rumi and the understanding of mystical text / Teuvo Laitila -- Understanding disposed existence / Jan-Ivar Lindén -- Pilgrimage as field / Simon Coleman -- Ethics and embodiment in ethnographic interactions / Terhi Utriainen -- It takes only a matchstick / Mira Karjalainen -- Northern encounters : fieldwork among the indigenous peoples / Juha Pentikäinen -- "With one's ass ahead up into a tree" : the bipolar semantic field of folk religion / Risto Pulkkinen -- The holy shamaness : some additional notes on a Turko-Mongolic etymology / Juha Janhunen -- Transition of purification : the anatomy of the Native-American sweat bath / Riku Hämäläinen -- Thai politics and Asoke Buddhist economics / Marja-Leena Heikkilä-Horn. Feast as trauma / Nora Ahlberg -- "Life has its seasons" : African wisdom for those having seen many rains / Raimo Harjula --"Man gave names to all the animals" / Tom Sjöblom -- Cult and pilgrimage : the translation of relics in the Paolaiologan period / Alice-Mary Talbot -- A critical review of the psychological underpinnings of the Eastern Christian monasticism / Grigorious-Chrysostomos Tympas -- Obedience and freedom in Greek monastic theology / Kallistos Ware -- St. Paisy Velichovsky and Mount Athos / Graham Speake -- Monastic prayer and spirituality in an Eastern Orthodox perspective / Ambrosius -- "Pilgrims in the world" : monastic life as a quest for heaven in early medieval Ireland / Kaja Ritari -- How did the holy mountain become holy?" : a close reading od some Russian pilgrims and travelers' accounts on Mount Athos / Ismo Pellikka -- Women, pilgrimage, everyday life experience / Mari Rahkala -- (Com)passionate enlightenment : on the soteriological significance of Tibetan monasticism / Mitra Härkönen -- Mad sisters and evil mothers : representations of nuns and convents in Western films / Heikki Pesonen.