Author : Judith A. Berling
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1980-03-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780231942409
Looks at syncretism in religion in China where three traditions (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism) dominated the spectrum of religious history.
Author : Sangkeun Kim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820471303
One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.
Author : Judith A. Berling
Publisher :
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Anthony C. Yu
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780874138696
This book pays critical homage to the eminent comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu of The University of Chicago. Broadly comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume consists of an introductory essay on Yu's scholarly career, and thirteen additional essays on topics such as literary texts and traditions of varying provenance and periods, ranging from ancient Greece, medieval Europe, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, to China from the classical to modern periods. The disciplines and areas of research that the essays draw into constructive engagement with one another include comparative literature, religion and literature, history of religions, (or comparative religion), religion and social thought, and the study of myth. Eric Ziolkowski is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies at Lafayette College.
Author : Anita Maria Leopold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136733523
Long a fascinating but problematic category of religious studies, "syncretism" is an elastic term that describes a wide range of practices characterized by the mixing or overlap of traditions. Syncretism in Religion offers the student a broad selection of essays, both classical contributions to the study of syncretism and new essays commissioned especially for this volume. Some important selections appear here in English for the first time. Also included is a list of references for further reading.
Author : Rodney L. Taylor
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1990-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1438421923
The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as a religious tradition. This book presents Confucianism as a religious tradition. In no other book has there been a sustained presentation of the many and varied religious dimensions of the tradition.
Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521458801
World-wide in scope, this volume brings together the work of twenty historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars who have tried to examine the nature of the encounter between Europeans and the other peoples of the world from roughly 1450 to 1800, the Early Modern era.
Author : Hubert Michael Seiwert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004131460
Annotation In rough chronological order from antiquity to the 19th century, Seiwert (comparative religion, Leipzig U.) identifies and describes religious communities and movements outside the official religion. For the period before the Ming dynasty, he looks at prophecies and messianism in Han Confucianism, popular sects and the early Daoist tradition, heterodox movements in medieval Buddhism, and popular sectarianism during the Song and Yuan dynasties. He devotes the second half of the book to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ma Xisha (world religions, Chinese Academy for the Social Sciences) collaborated on the work. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Kiyul Chung
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820488219
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Chee-beng Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9814590010
This is a timely book that fills the gap in the study of Chinese overseas and their religions in the global context. Rich in ethnographic materials, this is the first comprehensive book that shows the transnational religious networks among the Chinese of different nationalities and between the Chinese overseas and the regions in China. The book highlights diverse religious traditions including Chinese popular religion, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and discusses inter-cultural influences on religions, their localization, their significance to cultural belonging, and the transnational nature of religious affiliations and networking.
