The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Author : Charles Francis Horne
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Charles Francis Horne
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Arie L. Molendijk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019108705X
This volume offers a critical analysis of one the most ambitious editorial projects of late Victorian Britain: the edition of the fifty substantial volumes of the Sacred Books of the East (1879-1910). The series was edited and conceptualized by Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a world-famous German-born philologist, orientalist, and religious scholar. Müller and his influential Oxford colleagues secured financial support from the India Office of the British Empire and from Oxford University Press. Arie L. Molendijk documents how the series has become a landmark in the development of the humanities-especially the study of religion and language-in the second half of the nineteenth century. The edition also contributed significantly to the Western perception of the 'religious' or even 'mystic' East, which was textually represented in English translations. The series was a token of the rise of 'big science' and textualized the East, by selecting their 'sacred books' and bringing them under the power of western scholarship.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Confucianism
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1959
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Julius Eggeling
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368635972
Reprint of the original, first published in 1891.
Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Christal Whelan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824818241
In 1865 a French priest was visited by a small group of Japanese at his newly built church in Nagasaki. They were descendants of Japan's first Christians, the survivors of brutal religious persecution under the Tokugawa government. The Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians," had practiced their religion in secret for several hundred years. Sometime after their visit the priest received a copy of the Kakure bible, the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto, "Beginning of Heaven and Earth," an intriguing amalgam of Bible stories, Japanese fables, and Roman Catholic doctrine. Whelan offers a complete translation of this unique work accompanied by an illuminating commentary that provides the first theory of origin and evolution of the Tenchi. Today, the few Kakure Kirishitan communities still in existence view the Tenchi as strange and flawed, expressing a distorted form of Christianity. It is, however, the only text produced by the Kakure Kirishitan that depicts their highly syncretistic tradition and provides a colorful window through which to examine the dynamics of religious acculturation.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1897
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Bilal Ahmed
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1304213463
On a journey through spiritual awakening, living in the moment, no memory of the past, no plans for the future, the only reality being the sound of silence, or OM, a gateway in the cosmic, receiving divine guidance. A journey through various ashrams in San Francisco, learning from the most enlightenment gurus and masters who ever walked on mother earth, themselves travelling towards the West, to help create the new dawn of spirituality, from the East. As predicted in the past, helping build a Golden era, with Divine Love, Knowledge and Existence, together in Oneness of male and female aspects of divinity, respecting and loving the divine mother or nature.