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Reading Śiva
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 669

Reading Śiva

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.

A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Following the fate of a small Daoist community temple, the Wengongci in the town of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, the author examines the structure of the temple, the monastics living in it, its surrounding lay community, and the gods worshiped in its confines. In a second part, she outlines the individual's path as a Daoist monastic today, from the choice of the religious life through the various forms of training to advanced ordinations and activities in the society. Finally, she discusses the greater community of the Dao in terms of pseudo-kinship structures and gender issues.

Sins and Sinners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Sins and Sinners

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Sins and Sinners: Asian Perspectives brings together essays by leading scholars of Asian religions to explore the diversity of beliefs about sin and its remedies.

Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

This book brings together essays by anthropologists, scholars of religion, and art historians to explore some of the most fundamental challenges that religious groups face as they expand from their homeland or confront the demands of modernity. The chapters span a broad geographical area that includes India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, and address issues from the classical and medieval period to the present. They show how sacred places have a plurality of meanings for all religious communities and how in their construction, secular politics, private religious experience, and sectarian rivalry can all intersect. A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Literature.

Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Since Erik Zürcher's landmark Buddhist Conquest of China, the study of earlier phases of Chinese Buddhist history has made great progress with new materials, new interpretations and new problematizations. This volume brings together 12 contributions from the leading scholars in the field offering new perspectives on this old tradition.

Speaking of Monks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Speaking of Monks

The two essays in this volume explore how monks in medieval India and China wrote about themselves with their fellow monks. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks, who lives in the 11th and 14th century CE. The book tells us how a community of Chinese Buddhists viewed the life of the founder of their group, and how his biography reflected the changes that the community underwent. The essays are the result of a joint research project on religious biographies in Asia, carried out with assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Clever Adulteress & Other Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

The Clever Adulteress & Other Stories

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Images in Asian Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Images in Asian Religions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-10-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion

Capitalism Magic Thailand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Capitalism Magic Thailand

By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship—which have emerged together in Thailand’s dynamic religious field in recent decades—Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour’s account of modernity as a condition fractured between rationalizing ideology and hybridizing practice is expanded to explain the apparent paradox of new forms of magical ritual emerging alongside religious fundamentalism across a wide range of Asian societies. In Thailand, novel and increasingly popular varieties of ritual now form a symbolic complex in whic...

Monks and Magicians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Monks and Magicians

Gathers essays about the lives of Jain and Buddhist figures in India and Buddhist kings and monks in Tibet and China, and covers pilgrimage sites, funerary customs, and the spread of religious ideas.