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Die Beiträge in diesem Buch sind in transkultureller Perspektive Problemen der Epistemologie, der Anthropologie, der Ethik und der politischen Philosophie gewidmet. Unter dem Titel Menschsein – On Being Human diskutieren koreanische und deutsche Philosophen Themen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-26
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“A challenging, sensitive, appreciative, deep and broad-minded book.” The Muslim World Book Review “The work of a master scholar who has devoted a lifetime of scholarly, dialogical, and contemplative reflection to these three interconnected traditions. Audacious in its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-29
Collection :
Challenges in Contemporary Theology
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The interpretation of Exodus 4:24-26 is very controversial. Scholars have treated this text from various viewpoints on the basis of divergent methods or approaches. Two fundamental problems cause uncertainty about the origin and meaning of this text. One problem has to...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2010-10-06
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This comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings of Confucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient times to the present today. Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance of Confucius’s teachings – drawing parallels between our 21st...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-04-09
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John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these narratives portray...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-01-21
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On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-16
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THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY “Consistently highly readable and engrossing. This is an excellent overview of Eastern Christianity.” Expository Times “A masterful description of the major living traditions of Eastern Christianity. Its 24 chapters, each...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. Comprehensively...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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The Daode Jing, a highly enigmatic work rooted in ancient Chinese cosmology, ontology, metaphysics, and moral thinking, is regularly offered to college and high-school students in religion, philosophy, history, literature, Asian studies, and humanities courses. As a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-10
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'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men,
So why insist they mend their rags again?
God's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as they
Are shown by God Himself a higher way.'
Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-07-12
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'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men,
So why insist they mend their rags again?
God's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as they
Are shown by God Himself a higher way.'
Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-07-12
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Despite Chinese efforts to stop foreign countries from granting him visas, the Dalai Lama has become one of the most recognizable and best loved people on the planet, drawing enormous crowds wherever he goes. By contrast, China's charismatically-challenged leaders...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-10-14
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The Fengdao kejie or "Rules and Precepts for Worshiping the Dao" dates from the early seventh century and is a key text of medieval Daoist priesthood and monasticism, which was first formally organized in the sixth century. Compiled to serve the needs of both monastic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-07-01
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-03-27
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This is a book about religious transformation in South Asia in the nineteenth century. On the one hand, a fundamental conceptual transformation in the world of religion among people who were exposed to English language and culture took place.This transformation...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-12-05
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Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2000-03-09
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Although most historical and contemporary religions are governed by men, there are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of well-documented religions led by women. Most of these are marginal, subordinate, or secondary religions in the societies in which they are...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-03-04
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This is an ethnographic study of the Ngaju Dyaks, rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Like many indigenous peoples, the Ngaju have lately been affected by exposure to world religions, technological advances, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-05-22
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