East Asian religions

In Confucian Feminism Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee expands the theoretical horizons of feminism by using characteristic Confucian terms, methods, and concerns to interrogate the issue of gender oppression and liberation.

In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers.

Over the past three decades, the academic study of modern Paganism has gone from strength to strength.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

This essential student textbook consists of seventeen sections, all written by leading scholars in their different fields.

Blending scholarship with an original approach, this new introduction to Confucianism is an informative and intriguing guide to China's ancient philosophical tradition.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

Este libro ofrece una visión alternativa de la China antigua, un período crucial y particularmente fecundo en el terreno de la reflexión, cimentada en el estudio de los diversos modos en que se declinan tres efigies emblemáticas —sabios, desviados y autócratas— que, debido a sus propiedades o destrezas extraordinarias, se sitúan fuera de la norma y de lo común.

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world.

With extensive research and creative interpretations, Dasan's Noneo gogeum ju (Old and New Commentaries of the Analects) has been evaluated in the academia of Korean Studies as a crystallization of his studies on the Confucian classics.

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths.

Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect.

An American imam offers answers for today's toughest questions about Islam, and a vision for a  reconciliation between Islam and the West.

It is arguably Confucianism, not Communism, which lies at the core of China's deepest sense of self.

This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.

A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate.

This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity.

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of vulnerability in human experience.

Scholars from several fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar.

Kaali und Ponna sind bereits viele Jahre verheiratet, aber bisher haben weder Volksmedizin noch Rituale ihren Kinderwunsch erfüllen können.

At once controversial and intriguing, Spiritualism has spread from the United States to become a global movement.

This book brings together two scholarly traditions: experts in Roman, Jewish and Islamic law, an area where scholars tend to be familiar with work in each area, and experts in the legal traditions of South and East Asia, which have tended to be less interdisciplinary.

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China.

This collection of fascinating short reads on Daoist thought, including Chinese medicine brings together some of the most popular articles from the Scholar Sage online magazine, alongside new material from Damo Mitchell.

This book explores the complexities of cultivating 'Confucian individuals' through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival.

By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha, and Confucius and others side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.

How can philosophy of religion become more diverse in content and method?

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This book is a comprehensive study of the intersection of religion, Indigenous culture, and community life, featuring an in-depth examination of the Orang Asli in Malaysia and the Santals in Bangladesh that aims for a socially inclusive, harmonious, and peaceful society.

'Divine love' explores the work of Luce Irigaray for the first time from the perspective of Religious Studies.

It is one thing to understand theoretically how we build our reality (Part 1 of the trilogy), but something very different to step out of "e;consensus reality,"e; stop the world and enter a completely different one.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

A rare glimpse of the sophisticated philosophical exchange between Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools at an early stage.

This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest.

Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought engages students with anecdotes, primary and secondary sources, an accessible writing style, and a clear historical approach.

This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "e;three religions"e; of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways.

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This pivot focuses on "e;the concept of edification"e; in a bid to systematically expound its connotative structure and logical evolution.

Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today.