Der Band beschreibt Leben, Werk und Hermeneutik von zwanzig ausgewählten katholischen und evangelischen Ostkirchenkundlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Forschungsprofile des Faches vorgestellt und in den theologiegeschicht...Loe edasi...
Based on thirty years of fieldwork and illustrated by 274 photos of the author, this book explores sacred space and time, lineages, temples, and gods in the social organization of villages and towns in pre-1949 Southeast China....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Sarat Chandra Das (18491917), the Bengali explorer and scholar whose journeys to Tibet and scholarly contributions transformed the religious and intellectual landscape of colonial Bengal. Tracing Das...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...
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.Interrogating conservative and mono...Loe edasi...
This book explores why Pentecostal Christianity has flourished in China more than nearly any other imported religious movement. Tracing its origins from the arrival of the first Pentecostal missionaries in 1907, this study shows how Pentecostal spir...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...
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...
It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold the foundation of Chinese s...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...
Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through c...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...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: LID Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781917391658)
What if you could live your life in flow?Being in flow means being “in the zone,” “on your game,” or “on fire.” It’s both a mental and physical state—a sense of complete focus, deep involvement, and genuine enjoy...Loe edasi...
In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that superstition belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197838266)
The Analects of Dasan: A Korean Synthetic Reading is an English translation of Noneo gogeum ju, which includes the translators commentary on Dasans creative ideas and interpretations of the Analects. It not only represents one of the great...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced to the Middle Kingdom by monks, travellers, and merchants from different parts of Eurasia throughout the first millennium CE....Loe edasi...
How, and to what extent, can Confucian political theory and 21st-century critical theory be integrated? In the first sustained exploration of the intersection of critical social theory and Confucianism, a team of respected Chinese p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197834213)
This book offers a philosophical reconstruction of Confucian humility, a virtue deeply rooted in East Asian traditions yet often overlooked or conflated with Western and contemporary notions of modesty and humility. It bridges classical textual anal...Loe edasi...
A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. Drawing o...Loe edasi...
Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask, David Gordon White
Sari: Bollingen Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691279367)
A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. Drawing o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691276465)
The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the AnalectsLabeled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221276)
Hans-Georg Moeller argues that we can defuse our anxieties by recognizing that genderlike all identitiesis social, not individual, and changes at different times and in different places....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221283)
Hans-Georg Moeller argues that we can defuse our anxieties by recognizing that genderlike all identitiesis social, not individual, and changes at different times and in different places....Loe edasi...
Based on thirty years of fieldwork and illustrated by 274 photos of the author, this book explores sacred space and time, lineages, temples, and gods in the social organization of villages and towns in pre-1949 Southeast China....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Asia Center, ISBN-13: 9780674303423)
In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries resolved their conflict between religion and worldly entertainment by transforming playwriting, stage perf...Loe edasi...
Bushido is the chivalric code of moral principles that the Samurai followed: rectitude, courage, benevolence, respect, honesty, honour and loyalty. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding, Bushido: The Soul of Japan will appeal to anyone...Loe edasi...
The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importance with Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Covering cultural life, aesthetics and philosophy, this is an exquis...Loe edasi...
Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, this newly-translated edition is a selected anthology...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of Sarat Chandra Das (18491917), the Bengali explorer and scholar whose journeys to Tibet and scholarly contributions transformed the religious and intellectual landscape of colonial Bengal. Tracing Das...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...
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.Interrogating conservative and mono...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...
This book explores why Pentecostal Christianity has flourished in China more than nearly any other imported religious movement. Tracing its origins from the arrival of the first Pentecostal missionaries in 1907, this study shows how Pentecostal spir...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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-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...
It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold the foundation of Chinese s...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...
Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through c...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...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...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...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: LID Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781917391658)
What if you could live your life in flow?Being in flow means being “in the zone,” “on your game,” or “on fire.” It’s both a mental and physical state—a sense of complete focus, deep involvement, and genuine enjoy...Loe edasi...
In the early twentieth century, scholars around the world believed that superstition belonged to a bygone era. Yet despite their confident predictions, superstitious beliefs have endured. Perhaps nowhere has the history of superstition been more p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197838266)
The Analects of Dasan: A Korean Synthetic Reading is an English translation of Noneo gogeum ju, which includes the translators commentary on Dasans creative ideas and interpretations of the Analects. It not only represents one of the great...Loe edasi...
