Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Eastern

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...

Reader discusses Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious...

Reader discusses Aum's spiritual roots, placing it in the context of contemporary Japanese religious...

Today, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan and Thailand. It has long been recognized that this people - who have retained their orally based culture through to the present day - area a repository for much that has been lost or ignored in the literate cultures of their lowland neighbors. So it is too with music. What this volume offers is one person's repoertoire of social adult songs, namely the repertoire of Kam Raw, who grew up in a Kammu villiag in northern Laos. The words of the songs are given in the Kammu language with English interpretations. The songs are...

From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburo (1871-1948) transformed his mother-in-law's small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the mainstream media,...