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.
This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children's primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) while living in Fujian, China.
This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with "e;portrayed stories.
This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.
This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
This book explores practical and theoretical approaches to translation in Korea from the 16th century onwards, examining a variety of translations done in Korea from a diachronic perspective.
This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies.
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.
Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.
Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.
Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.
Más allá de reivindicar que la visión religiosa es real para quien la vive, este libro no esquiva las preguntas ontológicas y epistemológicas que suscitan.
Este libro es producto de un proyecto de investigación orientado a generar estrategias para la aplicación de las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF®) de las entidades sin ánimo de lucro, en especial para las comunidades religiosas, a las que se busca brindar apoyo a partir de la presentación de casos concretos a su ser y quehacer desde sus obras apostólicas.
Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes del ordenamiento territorial que son específicos del Litoral Pacífico.
"Contra la ignorancia" es un manual práctico de reflexiones que responden a las preguntas más frecuentes de las personas, católicas o no, sobre la Iglesia, los sacerdotes y la práctica de la fe católica.
En el marco del jubileo por los 450 años de historia de la Arquidiócesis de Bogotá, se presentan de manera crítica y desde distintas miradas disciplinares, no solo la impronta arquidiocesana en el ámbito evangelizador, sino a una institución, que lejos de aquella mirada monolítica de su quehacer, ha sido dinámica y dinamizadora de diversos procesos socioculturales, económicos y políticos en la historia nacional, cuya incidencia o repercusión puede constatarse a través de los diferentes capítulos escritos por los expertos sobre el tema convocados para esta obra.
Análisis genealógico de la heteronormatividad para comprender el surgimiento, desarrollo e implantación de la heterosexualidad obligatoria como un sistema mundo que ha colonizado y violentado otras posibilidades de amar y vivir juntos.
The dissolution of the Lombard political unity in southern Italy and the Muslim military activities in that area rendered the ninth century a crucial, yet troubled period for the history of this part of the Italian peninsula.
Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "e;Western"e; liberalism of empire.
Sufism, called the mystical dimension of Islam, is known for its inclusive nature, as well as its ethics of love and compassion, its devotional music, art and architecture.
Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies.
