Author: Carmen Blacker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.
Collected Writings of Carmen Blacker
Author: Carmen Blacker
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore.
Carmen Blacker - Collected Writings
Author: Carmen Blacker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113425153X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113425153X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Carmen Blacker, who wrote extensively on religion, myth and folklore.
Collected Writings of Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Author: Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784931444270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784931444270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Collected Writings of P.G. O'Neill
Author: P. G. O'Neill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134245378
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Special areas: Japanese language, festivals, Noh theatre.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134245378
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Special areas: Japanese language, festivals, Noh theatre.
The Promise of Salvation
Author: Martin Riesebrodt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226713946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that we lack a basic framework for making sense of the chaos of religious phenomena. To remedy this state of affairs, Martin Riesebrodt here undertakes a task that is at once simple and monumental: to define, understand, and explain religion as a universal concept. Instead of propounding abstract theories, Riesebrodt concentrates on the concrete realities of worship, examining religious holidays, conversion stories, prophetic visions, and life-cycle events. In analyzing these practices, his scope is appropriately broad, taking into consideration traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, and Shinto. Ultimately, Riesebrodt argues, all religions promise to avert misfortune, help their followers manage crises, and bring both temporary blessings and eternal salvation. And, as The Promise of Salvation makes clear through abundant empirical evidence, religion will not disappear as long as these promises continue to help people cope with life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226713946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that we lack a basic framework for making sense of the chaos of religious phenomena. To remedy this state of affairs, Martin Riesebrodt here undertakes a task that is at once simple and monumental: to define, understand, and explain religion as a universal concept. Instead of propounding abstract theories, Riesebrodt concentrates on the concrete realities of worship, examining religious holidays, conversion stories, prophetic visions, and life-cycle events. In analyzing these practices, his scope is appropriately broad, taking into consideration traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, and Shinto. Ultimately, Riesebrodt argues, all religions promise to avert misfortune, help their followers manage crises, and bring both temporary blessings and eternal salvation. And, as The Promise of Salvation makes clear through abundant empirical evidence, religion will not disappear as long as these promises continue to help people cope with life.
Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings
Author: Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134251742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134251742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Special areas: biographies, history, cultural exchange, arts, business and foreign affairs.
Ben-Ami Shillony - Collected Writings
Author: Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134252374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ben-Ami Shillony on modern history, crisis and culture, Japan and the Jews.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134252374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ben-Ami Shillony on modern history, crisis and culture, Japan and the Jews.
Richard Storry - Collected Writings
Author: Richard Storry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134280653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan series, published under the Japan Library imprint, collects the work of Richard Storry on contempory issues and the history of Japan.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134280653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan series, published under the Japan Library imprint, collects the work of Richard Storry on contempory issues and the history of Japan.
The Pacific World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
Author:
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004218033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004218033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.