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Author: C. Scott Littleton
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780805046472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing 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.
Author: Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology C Scott Littleton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003-09-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195220391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Trevor Barnes
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2005-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781417684250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor use in schools and libraries only. Explores the major religions of the Eastern world, including Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. Reveals the origins of each religion, the key elements of its belief system, and the appeal of Eastern religions to the West.
Author: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780195221916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthoritative 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.
Author: Gert Woerner
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1994-05-10
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0877739803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than four thousand entries and over one hundred illustrations, this encyclopedia offers a complete survey of the four major religious traditions of Asia. It is designed not only for students and scholars but also to help general readers find their way through the thicket of unfamiliar words and concepts that are often encountered today in various fields such as the health professions, psychotherapy, the sciences, and the media. Among the subjects covered are: • Important terms such as chakra, karma, koan, nirvana, tantra, Tao, and yin-yang • The lives and teachings of mystics, philosophers, and masters of meditation • Basic texts and scriptures • Sects and schools of thought • Mythological figures and events In addition, pronunciation tables, a comprehensive bibliography, and a Ch'an/Zen Lineage Chart are provided.
Author: Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9780674015173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.
Author: Walter Beyerlin
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Hunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 1351904752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the rubric of 'Religions of the East', which includes Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Janiism and a myriad of Chinese religio-philosophies, are a vast range of views concerning human sexuality. These contrasting attitudes are mapped through this volume on Religions of the East in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series. Part 1 presents previously-published articles that explore several Eastern Religions in the way they construct sexuality through expressions of their pertinent holy writings and belief systems, as applied in differing historical and cultural contexts. Part 2 takes sexual renunciation and asceticism as its focus through the traditions of Hinduism, Jainism and the Chinese religious systems. Part 3 explores the connection between sexuality, gender and sexuality in Hindu and Buddhist customs in varied social settings. The final part of the volume includes articles examining Eastern religions in their attitudes towards sexual 'variants' including bi-sexuality, trans-sexuality and contested sexual categories.
Author: Murray J. Leaf
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-05-21
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0739192418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.
