Download or read book The Character and Theological Struggle of the Church in Halmahera Indonesia 1941 1979 written by James Haire and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1981 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the expression of Christianity in the Eastern Indonesian Island of Halmahera in the years 1941 to 1979. Against the historical, theological and missiological backgrounds, it examines the interactions between pre-literary religion, Islam and Christianity. From this it tries to evaluate the nature of the Gospel in relation to its cultural expressions, and the implications for the Church.
Download or read book Rage and Ravage written by Bernard Faure and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Rage and Ravage is the third installment of a milestone project in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism—specifically the nature and roles of deities in the religious world of medieval Japan and beyond. Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity and shows the centrality of the gods in religious discourse and ritual; in doing so he moves away from the usual textual, historical, and sociological approaches that constitute the “method” of current religious studies. Throughout, he engages theoretical insights drawn from structuralism, post-structuralism, and Actor-Network Theory to retrieve the “implicit pantheon” (as opposed to the “explicit orthodox pantheon”) of esoteric Japanese Buddhism (Mikkyō). In volumes one and two, The Fluid Pantheon and Protectors and Predators, Faure argued against a polarity or dichotomy between buddhas and kami by emphasizing the existence of deities that did not belong to either category, and he rejected the retrospective notion of “hybridity.” The present work makes a similar case about the reified distinction between gods and demons to show that, due to the fluid nature of the Japanese pantheon, these terms do not represent stable identities: Gods can become demons, and demons are sometimes deified. Divine protectors were often former predators, and in some instances they retained their predatory features even after being converted. After emphasizing the demonic aspects of devas as “gods or spirits of obstacles” in the earlier volumes, Faure now focuses on the deva-like or “divine” aspects of deities that have been described as “demonic.” Rage and Ravage and its companion volumes persuade readers that the gods constituted a central part of medieval Japanese religion and that the latter cannot be reduced to a simplistic confrontation, parallelism, or complementarity between some monolithic teachings known as “Buddhism” and “Shinto.” Once these reductionist labels and categories are discarded, a new and fascinating religious landscape begins to unfold.
Download or read book The Fluid Pantheon written by Bernard Faure and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, The Fluid Pantheon is the first installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism—specifically the nature and roles of deities in the religious world of medieval Japan and beyond. Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity and shows the centrality of the gods in religious discourse and ritual; in doing so he moves away from the usual textual, historical, and sociological approaches that constitute the “method” of current religious studies. The approach considers the gods (including buddhas and demons) as meaningful and powerful interlocutors and not merely as cyphers for social groups or projections of the human mind. Throughout he engages insights drawn from structuralism, post-structuralism, and Actor-network theory to retrieve the “implicit pantheon” (as opposed to the “explicit orthodox pantheon”) of esoteric Japanese Buddhism (Mikkyō). Through a number of case studies, Faure describes and analyzes the impressive mythological and ritual efflorescence that marked the medieval period, not only in the religious domain, but also in the political, artistic, and literary spheres. He displays vast knowledge of his subject and presents his research—much of it in largely unstudied material—with theoretical sophistication. His arguments and analyses assume the centrality of the iconographic record, and so he has brought together in this volume a rich and rare collection of more than 180 color and black-and-white images. This emphasis on iconography and the ways in which it complements, supplements, or deconstructs textual orthodoxy is critical to a fuller comprehension of a set of medieval Japanese beliefs and practices. It also offers a corrective to the traditional division of the field into religious studies, which typically ignores the images, and art history, which oftentimes overlooks their ritual and religious meaning. The Fluid Pantheon and its companion volumes should persuade readers that the gods constituted a central part of medieval Japanese religion and that the latter cannot be reduced to a simplistic confrontation, parallelism, or complementarity between some monolithic teachings known as “Buddhism” and “Shinto.” Once these reductionist labels and categories are discarded, a new and fascinating religious landscape begins to unfold.
Download or read book Buddhas and Kami in Japan written by Fabio Rambelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book's essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England and Germany written by Stephen Sykes and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1982 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intention of the essays collected in this volume is to illuminate the interrelationship between English and German theology since the reformation. Though closely connected with each other throughout the period, the two nations have developed distinct educational, legal, political, economic and ecclesiastical structures and traditions. These have yielded a complex history of mutual influences in both theology and philosophy. The work is a contribution to the elucidation of these relationships, with a view to fostering a mutually profitable exchange.
Download or read book Pacific Partner written by George Henry Johnston and published by New York, World book Company. This book was released on 1944 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 24 Describes the use of the Northern Australia Railway during World War Two.
Download or read book The Giki Den written by Uyeki Takehiko and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gikio Den: A Japanese Romance There is a story told of a very punctilious Greek, who on the occasion of the funeral of his little child, apologized his audience for bringing out so small a thing. This was the result of a sincere conviction that his child did not deserve so much honour. I follow in the path of this polite Greek, when I confess the unworthiness of this work and ask the kind indulgence of the reader.(2) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Proverbial Philosophy written by Martin Farquhar Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Journal of Religious Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward the Image of Tammuz and Other Essays on Mesopotamian History and Culture written by Thorkild Jacobsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, William L. Moran has collected seventeen of Jacobsen's widely scattered essays. Dealing with religion, history, culture, government, economics, and grammar, these pieces are representative of all aspects of Jacobsen's work, but stress his studies in history and religion, the fields in which he made his most important contributions to our knowledge of Mesopotamian culture and the origins of Western civilization. Moran has also included a bibliography of and a lexical index to Jacobsen's writings.
Download or read book Ostasiatische Zeitschrift written by Otto Kümmel and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Chinese and Korean Surnames and How to Read Them written by Wolfgang Hadamitzky and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 1573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Surnames and How to Read Them".
Download or read book Scl 2009 written by Danny Calegari and published by Mathematical Society Of Japan Memoirs. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theory of stable commutator length, an important subfield of quantitative topology, with substantial connections to 2-manifolds, dynamics, geometric group theory, bounded cohomology, symplectic topology, and many other subjects. We use constructive methods whenever possible, and focus on fundamental and explicit examples. We give a self-contained presentation of several foundational results in the theory, including Bavard's Duality Theorem, the Spectral Gap Theorem, the Rationality Theorem, and the Central Limit Theorem. The contents should be accessible to any mathematician interested in these subjects, and are presented with a minimal number of prerequisites, but with a view to applications in many areas of mathematics.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets
Download or read book The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin written by Soka Gakkai and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 1567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative translation of 172 of Nichiren's writings presented in chronological order. The collection includes Nichiren's five major works as well as other treatises setting forth his doctrine, writings remonstrating with government officials, and letters offering advice, encouragement, or consolation to believers. The translations are based on those of Burton Watson, formerly of Columbia University and an award-winning translator of Chinese and Japanese literature. Edited by the Soka Gakkai's Gosho Translation Committee, these are the translations used by English-speaking Soka Gakkai members the world over.
Download or read book Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality written by Birgit Kellner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2500 years, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural interaction that in turn shaped Buddhist doctrines, practices and institutions. While the cultural plurality of Buddhism has often been remarked upon, the transcultural processes that constitute this plurality, and their long-term effects, have scarcely been studied as a topic in their own right. The contributions to this volume present detailed case studies ranging across different time periods, regions and disciplines, and they address methodological challenges as well as theoretical problems. In addition to casting a spotlight on topics as diverse as the role of trade contacts in the early spread of Buddhism, the hybrid nature of religious practices in Japan or Indo-Tibetan relations in Tibetan polemical literature, the individual papers jointly raise the question as to whether there might be something distinct about how Buddhism steers and influences forms of cultural exchange, and is in turn shaped by modalities of cultural interaction throughout Asian, as well as global, history. The volume is intended to demonstrate the need for investigating transcultural dynamics more closely in the study of Buddhism, and to suggest new avenues for Buddhist Studies.
Download or read book written by Ferdinand Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
