India: A Sacred Geography
by Eck, Diana L
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385531907
- ISBN 13
- 9780385531900
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harmony Books, 2012. x, 559 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Paperclip indentation/top edge, couple of leaves in the centre of the book. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Note: The stock image is incorrect. CONTENTS: A sacred geography, an imagined landscape; What is India?; Rose Apple Island: India in the lotus of the world; The Ganga and the rivers of India; Shiva's light in the land of India; Shakti, the distribution of the body of the goddess; Vishnu: endless and descending; The land and story of Krishna; Following Rama: the Ramayana on the landscape of India.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
DIANA L. ECK is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University and is Master of Lowell House and Director of the Pluralism Project. Her book Banaras, City of Light , remains a classic in the field, and Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras won the prestigious Grawemeyer Book Award. In 1998, President Clinton awarded her the National Humanities Medal for the work of the Pluralism Project in the investigation of America's changing religious landscape.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124891
- Title
- India: A Sacred Geography
- Author
- Eck, Diana L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0385531907
- ISBN 13
- 9780385531900
- Publisher
- Harmony Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genre & Subject / Religious / Hindu; Asian / Indian & South Asian;
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