East Asian religions

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.

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 volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present.

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state?

Clarity.

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.

The philosophy of Buddhism, originating in India, has undergone considerable changes in its adoption in the Far East.

Of the three main teachings in Chinese culture, Confucianism has exerted the most profound and lasting influence in China.

The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols.

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

The intellectual legacy of Confucianism has loomed large in efforts to understand China's past, present, and future.

Introduces the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students and general readers.

A guide to the internal martial arts exercises of short-form Wu-Style Tai Chi *; Details the 8 core forms of Wu-Style Tai Chi with fully illustrated instructions *; Ideal for older practitioners as well as those with health disabilities due to the ';small frame' primary stance, slower and smaller movements, and conservation of energy *; Explains how Wu Style provides a natural introduction to martial arts boxing *; Reveals how Wu Style eases stiffness, relieves back pain, and reduces abdominal fat Following the flow of chi energy, rather than directing it as in traditional Tai Chi, Wu-Style Tai Chi focuses on internal development, seeking to conserve chi energy and gather jin power from the Earth through the tan tien.

This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.

Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics.

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, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004.

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.

Naturalism, Human Flourishing, and Asian Philosophy: Owen Flanagan and Beyond is an edited volume of philosophical essays focusing on Owen Flanagan's naturalized comparative philosophy and moral psychology of human flourishing.

This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest systems of divination.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Daoismus – einer der ältesten und tiefgründigsten philosophischen Traditionen Chinas.

Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet.

Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part, a 'form'.

Chock full of moving and enlightening stories, The Chocolate Cake Sutra will help you let go of perfectionism and celebrate the sacred nature of the life you already have.

Discussion of Cold Damage (Shang Han Lun) and contemporary texts of ancient China form the bedrock of modern Chinese medicine practice, yet these classic texts contain many concepts that are either hard to understand or confusing.

For more than two thousand years, the writings of the Confucian philosopher Mengzi have been a source of guidance and inspiration for those set on doing something to improve the state of the world.

The essence of Buddha is about living a life with meaning and purpose.

Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing.

Here is the haunting story of the great female poet Hung Tu, who flourished in the ninth century during one of the great periods of Chinese literature.

This authoritative collection surveys the teachings of Confucius, and illustrates his importance throughout Chinese history in one focused and incisive volume.

For its extensive research and novel interpretations, Dasan's Noneo gogeum ju (Old and New Commentaries of the Analects) is considered in Korean Studies a crystallization of Dasan's study of the Confucian classics.

The first book in English to apply ancient Japanese Shinto traditions to daily spiritual fulfillment.

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

Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H.

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China''s lagging development in preindustrial times.

You're no idiot, of course.

Recognized as one of the greatest philosophers in classical China, Chu Hsi (1130-1200) is known in the West primarily through translations of one of his many works, the Chin-ssu Lu.

The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the study of religion.

It is widely claimed that notions of gods and religious beliefs are irrelevant or inconsequential to early Chinese ( Confucian ) moral and political thought.

The institution of local festivals and temples is not as well known as that of ancestor worship, but it is just as much a universal fact of Chinese life.

Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive.

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi.

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition.

At the core of Daoism are ancient ideas concerning the Way, the fundamental process of existence (the Dao).

How can people living in one of the poorest countries in the world be among the most charitable?