11 Top history books like Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace by Sophia Rose Arjana

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Similar categories in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

Similar categories in Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• history
• theory
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction

"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Similar categories in Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• theory
• nonfiction
• history
• sociology

"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Similar categories in George Saunders's Tenth of December book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's Swing Time book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in Lindsay Gibb's National Treasure: Nicolas Cage book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction

Similar categories in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in John Updike's The Power and the Glory book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• religion

Similar categories in Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's On Beauty book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

Similar categories in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• history

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Similar categories in Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• history
• sociology

"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Similar categories in Talia Lavin's Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• history
• sociology

"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"

-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• religion
• history
• sociology

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• history
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• sociology
• anthropology

"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Nicole LePera's How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• religion
• history
• sociology

"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The World We Make (Great Cities, #2) book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

Similar categories in Dipo Faloyin's Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• history

Similar categories in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."

-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were

"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."

-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were

"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."

-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were

"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"

-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were

Similar categories in Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• nonfiction
• history
• sociology

"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Similar categories in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3) book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"People of authority love capes."

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)

"A warrior may retreat. He does not flee. He may lie in ambush. He does not hide. He may experience victory or defeat. He does not cease to serve. But a servant with divided loyalties is no servant at…"

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)

"As a military man, Eli found himself impressed by the layered diversion/attack strategy of pickpocket and muggers. As a potential victim, he found himself flinching back from the sudden flurry of act…"

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)

"Someday, Mitth'raw'nuruodo, you'll overthink and overplan, and it will all come crashing down around you. When that happens, I hope someone is there to lift you back to your feet." "You, perhaps?" Ar…"

-Timothy Zahn, Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's Grand Union book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

"See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You…"

-Zadie Smith, Grand Union

Similar categories in Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• theory
• nonfiction

"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Similar categories in Ronald E. Purser's McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• buddhism
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• sociology

"Individual happiness seems hollow unless all human beings are free of oppression, poverty, and violence — as well as free to speak and act in the public sphere. This doesn’t mean we have to be misera…"

-Ronald E. Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

Similar categories in Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace book and Sophia Rose Arjana's Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace

• buddhism
• islam
• history
• theory
• philosophy
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• sociology
• anthropology