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Readings in Eastern Religions

Author : Harold G. Coward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889209553
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Eastern Religions written by Harold G. Coward and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1988-09-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed principally for use in introductory courses in the study of religious traditions in the East, this anthology offers a selection of readings from primary texts of India, China and Japan. The selections are arranged both chronologically and thematically within religious traditions and include readings from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism (including Tibetan Buddhism), Sikhism, Early Chinese thought, Confuciansiim, Taoism, Mao Tse Tung, Shintoism, and Japan’s new religions (Tenrikyo and Sokka Gakkai). Throughout the anthology, an effort has been made to present more than the usual short excerpts. As much as possible larger excerpts have been included to give students a better sense of significant developments within traditions. As well, doctrinal elements have been combined with story to make these traditions more than museum pieces for students.

Readings in Eastern Religions

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889204357
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Eastern Religions written by Harold Coward and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Originally developed for introductory courses on Eastern religious traditions, this popular anthology offers readings from primary texts of India, China, and Japan. With this second edition, the editors have expanded on existing texts and added new introductions to provide a better context for the excerpts as well as a better sense of historical developments. A section on Ch'an/Zen and excerpts from the writings of Ge Hong, representing the central concerns of Daoism, have been included. A section on modern China includes a poem written by Mao, exhibiting his Daoist sensibilities; there's also material about Falun Gong. A revised chapter on Buddhism presents the voices of modern Buddhist writers, including the Dalai Lama. Throughout the volume, women's voices have been added.

Readings in Eastern Religions

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205280
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Eastern Religions written by Harold Coward and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally developed for use in introductory courses on Eastern religious traditions, this popular anthology offers a selection of readings from primary texts of India, China, and Japan. For the second edition, the editors have added excerpts and have written introductions that provide a more comprehensive context for the readings. A section on Chan / Zen and excerpts from the writings of Ge Hong, representing the central concerns of Daoism, are included. A section on modern China includes a poem written by Mao, exhibiting his Daoist sensibilities. A revised chapter on Buddhism presents the voices of modern Buddhist writers, including the Dalai Lama. Throughtout the volume, reflections on the role of women in Eastern religions, as well as women’s voices themselves, are added.

Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134689055
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy provides an extensive glossary of the main terms and concepts used in Eastern philosophy. The book includes definitions of philosophical ideas linked to the national traditions of: * Persia * India * Islamic world * China * Japan * Tibet including concepts from: * Zoroastrianism * Hinduism * Sufism * Islam * Confucianism * Shintoism * Taoism * Buddhism Each entry includes a guide for further reading and critical analysis, and is cross-referenced with associated concepts and is in easy-to-use A-Z format.

Readings in the Philosophy of Religion

Author : Andrew Eshleman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Philosophy of Religion written by Andrew Eshleman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an array of Western and non-Western, theistic and non-theistic, religious thought. Combining key readings by contemporary philosophers with pivotal historical texts, this anthology brings together some of the best work in both Western philosophy of religion and Eastern thought - including selections on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

Eastern Wisdom

Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805046472
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Wisdom written by C. Scott Littleton and published by Henry Holt & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the practices of Eastern Hinduism, Shintoism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, a lavishly illustrated volume is complemented by full-color reproductions of sacred art, architecture, symbols, landscapes, ceremonies, and festivals.

Eastern Religions

Author : Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195221916
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Religions written by Vasudha Narayanan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative and accessible, this fascinating volume provides a concise, illustrated introduction to five of the great religious traditions of the world--Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. 125 illustrations.

Readings from World Religions

Author : Selwyn Gurney Champion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Readings from World Religions written by Selwyn Gurney Champion and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intended to be an introduction to the eleven living religions of the world"--Foreword, p. 5. For each of the world religions represented, short, isolated verses of its sacred texts are followed by longer readings from their scriptures

Readings in Christianity

Author : Robert E. Van Voorst
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780534546625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Christianity written by Robert E. Van Voorst and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to lead students into the world of Christianity by way of primary literary sources. It contains the most notable and instructive primary sources from the entire sweep of Christian history.

Readings in Eastern Religious Thought: Chinese and Japanese religions

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780664208660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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On Eastern Meditation

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081121995X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book On Eastern Meditation written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great introduction to the religions of the East by a monk from the West. Merton’s biographer, George Woodcock, once wrote that “almost from the beginning of his monastic career, Thomas Merton tentatively began to discover the great Asian religions of Buddhism and Taoism.” Merton, a longtime social justice advocate, first approached Eastern theology as an admirer of Gandhi’s beliefs on non-violence. Through Gandhi, Merton came to know the great Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita and in time came to have dialogues with the Dalai Lama and Taoist leader D. T. Suzuki. Merton then became deeply interested in Chuang Tzu and Zen thought. On Eastern Meditation, edited by Bonnie Thurston (author of Merton and Buddhism), gathers the best of his Eastern theological writings into a gorgeously designed gift book edition.

Religions of China in Practice

Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234604
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Religions of China in Practice written by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as "minorities." Selections from minority cultures here, for instance, are the folktale of Ny Dan the Manchu Shamaness and a funeral chant of the Yi nationality collected by local researchers in the early 1980s. Each of the forty unusual selections, from ancient oracle bones to stirring accounts of mystic visions, is preceded by a substantial introduction. As with the other volumes, most of the selections here have never been translated before. Stephen Teiser provides a general introduction in which the major themes and categories of the religions of China are analyzed. The book represents an attempt to move from one conception of the "Chinese spirit" to a picture of many spirits, including a Laozi who acquires magical powers and eventually ascends to heaven in broad daylight; the white-robed Guanyin, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities in China; and the burning-mouth hungry ghost. The book concludes with a section on "earthly conduct."

Essential Readings in Medicine & Religion

Author : Gary B. Ferngren
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421422913
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Essential Readings in Medicine & Religion written by Gary B. Ferngren and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] useful, well-edited anthology of important texts in the history of the intersection of religion and medicine.” —Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Divinity School Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis have gathered a rich collection of annotated primary sources that illustrate the intersection of medicine and religion. Intended as a companion volume to Ferngren’s classic Medicine and Religion, which traces the history of the relationship of medicine to religion in the Western world from the earliest ancient Near Eastern societies to the twenty-first century, this useful and extensive sourcebook places each key document in historical context. Drawing from more than 160 texts, the book explores a number of themes, including concepts of health, the causes and cure of disease, medical ethics, theodicy, beneficence, religious healing, consolation, and death and dying. Each chapter begins with an introduction that furnishes a basic historical setting for the period covered. Modern translations, some of which have been made especially for this volume, are used whenever possible. The texts are numbered sequentially within each chapter and preceded by a short introduction to both the author and the subject. Touching on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, the European Middle Ages, Islam, early modern Europe, and the modern era, Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion brings a wide range of sources together to expand on the crucial lessons of Medicine and Religion. This book is a useful introduction for all students of history, divinity, medicine, and health.

Readings in Eastern Religious Thought: Hinduism

Author : Allie M. Frazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Eastern Religious Thought: Hinduism written by Allie M. Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religions of Asia in Practice

Author : Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188149
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Religions of Asia in Practice written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed volumes of Princeton Readings in Religions present the remarkable range of all that is encompassed in the practice of religions, across the centuries and across the world. Religions of Asia in Practice: An Anthology brings together into a single volume the most important and fascinating selections from the volumes on Buddhism, India, China, Tibet, and Japan to give an overview of how religions have been lived by both ordinary and extraordinary people throughout the continent of Asia. These materials--many of which had never before been translated into any Western language--include ritual manuals, hagiographical and autobiographical writings, popular commentaries, instructions to children, poetry, and folktales. Each is preceded by a substantial introduction in which the translator discusses the text's history and influence and guides the reader through points of potential difficulty and particular interest. The volume includes, in addition, clear and compelling introductions to each of the major traditions. Religions of Asia in Practice: An Anthology offers a fascinating look at the spectrum of religious practices in Asia over almost three millennia. As such, it is ideally suited for use as a textbook in courses on world or Eastern religions as well as for the general reader.

American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions

Author : Arthur Versluis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195076583
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions written by Arthur Versluis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Versluis offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between the American Transcendentalists and Asian religions. He argues that an influx of new information about these religions shook nineteenth-century American religious consciousness to the core. With the publication of ever more material on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, the Judeo-Christian tradition was inevitably placed as just one among a number of religious traditions. Fundamentalists and conservatives denounced this influx as a threat, but the Transcendentalists embraced it, poring over the sacred books of Asia to extract ethical injunctions, admonitions to self-transcendence, myths taken to support Christian doctrines, and manifestations of a supposed coming universal religion.

Western Seeker, Eastern Paths

Author : David Pond
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 9781567185355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Western Seeker, Eastern Paths written by David Pond and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering techniques for gaining a peaceful mind, this book helps Westerners explore the philosophical underpinnings of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Tantra, and reveals ways to implement these mystical teachings into one's life. Illustrations.