This book explores the globalisation of Shin Buddhism through an examination of ritual practice and its transformations in four main geographical areas: Japan, the United States, South America, and Europe....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899554)
Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Lords of Life is the fifth and last book of a multivolume project that stands as a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhismspecifically the nature a...Loe edasi...
Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and how performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discourse. Examining early Chinese ritual discourse du...Loe edasi...
It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold the foundation of Chinese s...Loe edasi...
Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues....Loe edasi...
This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim womens mosques in central China. It will be of considerable interest to students and...Loe edasi...
In the spring of 2017, U.S.-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C. Angle took part in a series of dialogues with Chinese Confucians. The present book offers translations of those dialogues into English, together with epilogues by the two editors ref...Loe edasi...
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300284997)
In this new translation, a world-renowned scholar brings out the metaphysical, moral, and poetic power of Laozi’s classical Chinese text David Bentley Hart offers a luminously beautiful new translation of the Tao Te Ching (or...Loe edasi...
This book reveals the important value of Confucianism in modern China. It represents a shift in focus in Confucian studies from centering on self-cultivation to encompassing the entire social life. It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a l...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197830444)
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts...Loe edasi...
A neglected topic in the research on yoga and meditation traditions, the extraordinary capacities called yoga powers are at the core of the religious imagination in the history of religions in South Asia. Yoga powers explained the divine, the highes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Chinese University Press, ISBN-13: 9789882373358)
The Liezi is a work attributed to the Daoist, Lie Yukou who, according to the traditional account, lived during the later part of the fifth and first part of the fourth centuries BCE. This places him between the first wave of philosophers of the pre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899356)
Scholars have long debated the relationship between Buddhist monks and Confucian literati during the late Chosn (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), when the Korean state adopted anti-Buddhist policies. On the one hand, it is understood that liter...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182661)
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and active dimensions of Confucian power as responsibility, which undergirds resp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197746974)
Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court debates surrounding these canonical go...Loe edasi...
In Recycled Lives, Julie Chajes explores the rebirth doctrines of the controversial occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), matriarch of Theosophy. Examining her teachings in detail, Chajes places them in the context of multiple dim...Loe edasi...
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of William Martins free-verse interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, written expressly for those coming into the fullness of their wisdom...Loe edasi...
