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Author : Widengren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667679
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Historia Religionum, Volume 2 Religions of the Present written by Widengren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602735X
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521058001
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1956-01-03 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines of the Two Forces and the Five Elements. Subsequently he writes of the important sceptical tradition, the effects of Buddhist thought, and the Neo-Confucian climax of Chinese naturalism. Last comes a discussion of the conception of Laws of Nature in China and the West.
Author : John Lagerwey
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion and Chinese Society Vol. 2 written by John Lagerwey and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Hu Shih's views of Chinese society and history were representative of Sinology in general: China itself had no native religion, just local customs; its only real religion was an import, Buddhism. These views have now been completely overturned, with massive implications for our understanding not only of China but also of humanity as a whole: it is no longer possible to imagine that at least one major traditional society constructed and construed itself without reference to a non-mundane world that permeated every facet of society, and it therefore becomes indispensable for students of China to take the history of Chinese religion into account and for students of religion to take into account the Chinese experience of and Chinese categories for dealing with religious phenomena. The present volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened jointly by the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on "Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and Its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture" held on May 29-June 2, 2000. The collection aims at providing as wide a coverage as possible of recent research in the history of Chinese religion and seeks to draw some tentative conclusions about the implications for the study of Chinese religion and society in general.
Author : J. J. M. De Groot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265352137
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)
Download or read book The Religious System of China, Vol. 2 written by J. J. M. De Groot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Religious System of China, Vol. 2: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith Burial underneath a layer of earth, in coffins, is the usual way in which the Chinese dispose of their dead throughout their Empire. Other methods, to be reviewed in the last chapter of this Volume, are exceptional. 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.
Author : Adriana Boscaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880816
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Japan Vol 2 written by Adriana Boscaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.
Author : William H Nienhauser, Jr
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814719544
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader - Volume 2 written by William H Nienhauser, Jr and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.
Author : Jan J. M. de Groot
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Religious System of China written by Jan J. M. de Groot and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roman Malek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351545647
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ written by Roman Malek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection in five volumes tries to realize the desideratum of a comprehensive interdisciplinary work on the manifold faces and images of Jesus in China, which unites the Sinological, mission-historical, theological, art-historical, and other aspects. The first three volumes (vols. L/1-3) contain articles and texts which discuss the faces and images of Jesus Christ from the Tang dynasty to the present time. In a separate volume (vol. L/4) follows an annotated bibliography of the Western and Chinese writings on Jesus Christ in China and a general index with glossary. The iconography, i.e., the attempts of the Western missionaries and the Chinese to portray Jesus in an artistic way, will be presented in the fifth volume of this collection (vol. L/5).
Author : Xiaoqing Ye
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0892641622
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Dianshizhai Pictorial written by Xiaoqing Ye and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life the visual culture of the "nightless city," late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Wheatley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351477919
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City written by Paul Wheatley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer.
Author : Deborah A. Bekken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645617X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book China written by Deborah A. Bekken and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cub. Traditionally believed to possess attributes of strength and protection, statues such as these once stood guard outside imperial buildings, temples, and wealthy homes in China. Now, centuries later, they guard this incredible permanent exhibition. China’s long history is one of the richest and most complex in the known world, and the Cyrus Tang Hall of China offers visitors a wonderful, comprehensive survey of it through some 350 artifacts on display, spanning from the Paleolithic period to present day. Now, with China: Visions through the Ages, anyone can experience the marvels of this exhibition through the book’s beautifully designed and detailed pages. Readers will gain deeper insight into The Field Museum’s important East Asian collections, the exhibition development process, and research on key aspects of China’s fascinating history. This companion book, edited by the exhibition’s own curatorial team, takes readers even deeper into the wonders of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China and enables them to study more closely the objects and themes featured in the show. Mirroring the exhibition’s layout of five galleries, the volume is divided into five sections. The first section focuses on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods; the second, the Bronze Age, the first dynasties, and early writing; the third, the imperial system and power; the fourth, religion and performance; and the fifth, interregional trade and the Silk Routes. Each section also includes highlights containing brief stories on objects or themes in the hall, such as the famous Lanting Xu rubbing. With chapters from a diverse set of international authors providing greater context and historical background, China: Visions through the Ages is a richly illustrated volume that allows visitors, curious readers, and China scholars alike a chance to have an enduring exchange with the objects featured in the exhibition and with their multifaceted histories.
Author : Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 148225932X
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Food in China written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to
Author : Hugh Baker
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083090
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Ancestral Images written by Hugh Baker and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background for life in modern, urban Hong Kong. Esoteric nuggets of information are scattered through the book: How do you ascend a Pagoda with no staircase? How can you marry without attending the wedding? When is it wrong to buy a book?
Author : Adenrele Awotona
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429839561
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Housing Provision and Bottom-up Approaches written by Adenrele Awotona and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this book consists of in-depth family case studies from Africa, Asia and South America. The purpose of the book is to give a clear understanding of the physical and non-physical structures in bottom-up housing approaches. Physical structures include design aspects, materials, infrastructure and construction methods and stages. Non-physical structures include finance sources, participation and decision processes. All these elements present a challenging task for academics, research, policy makers and non-governmental organizations when intervening in bottom-up housing approaches. The book consists of four sections. Section I is an overview of conceptual issues and cross-national studies. Section II through IV are composed of case studies and fieldwork experiences from Africa, Asia (including the Middle East) and South America.
Author : Hispanic Society of America Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Hispanic Society of America Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
