Time, religion and history / (Record no. 15418)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780582784529 (pbk.)
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Original cataloging agency IN-BhIIT
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 115
Book number GAL/T
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Gallois, William
Relator term Author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Time, religion and history /
Statement of responsibility, etc William Gallois.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London :
Name of publisher Routledge,
Year of publication 2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages ix, 293 p. :
Other physical details(ill.) ill. ;
Dimensions(size) 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that time is 'natural' and unchanging. This is of critical importance to historians since the base matter of their study is time, yet there is almost no theoretical literature on time in history. This book offers the first detailed historiographical study of the centrality of time to human cultures. It sets out the complex ways in which ideas of time developed in the major world religions, and the manner in which such conceptions led people both to live in ways very different to our contemporary world and to make very different kinds of 'histories'. It goes on to argue that modern scientific descriptions of time, such as Einstein's Theory of Relativity, lie much closer to the complex understandings of time in religions such as Christianity than they do to our 'common-sense' notions of time which are centred on progress through a past, present and future.
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Topical Term Time
General subdivision Religious aspects
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Not withdrawn Not Lost not damaged   GEN Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar 24/02/2026 21 3614.93 115 GAL/T 11445 4951.96 24/02/2026 General Books

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