History of religion
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Buddhist Monks and the Politics of Lanka's Civil War
The war in Sri Lanka was violent and costly in human and material terms. This was one of the longest wars in modern South Asia. Often referred to as an 'ethnic' conflict between the majority Sinhalas and the minority Tamils, the war had a profound religious dimension. The majority of Sinhala Buddhis...
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Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice
Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin, Stephanie Jamison, Clemens Cavallin, Gerald James Larson, Guy G. Stroumsa, Jorgen Podemann Sorensen, Christian H. Bull, Jorgen Magnusson, Hans Ruin, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Peter Jackson, Anna-Pya Sjodin
This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation-especially in Ancient India and Greece-and consider the commonalit...
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Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion
Focusing on the academic study of religion, Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion is the first in a series that grapples with the historicity of identity and the social and rhetorical techniques that make claims to identity possible. In this volume, six previously published essays by scholar of...
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Lay Buddhism and Spirituality
Early issues of The Eastern Buddhist contain short translations from various Buddhist texts, some of them quite important and all of considerable interest. Since they are set unobtrusively between modern statements and arguments about the nature of Buddhism, and in any case are difficult to locate,...
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Buddhist Temples of Kyoto and Kamakura
Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahayana Buddhism. As the American wife of the influential Zen Buddhist Suzuki Daisetsu, she lived in Japan for many years, becoming very familiar with the leading temples of various Buddhist schools-especiall...
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Buddhism and Ireland
Ireland and Buddhism have a long history. Shaped by colonialism, contested borders, religious wars, empire and massive diasporas, Irish people have encountered Asian Buddhism in many ways over 14 centuries. From the thrill of travellers' tales in far-off lands to a religious alternative to Christian...
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Iconic Books and Texts
James W. Watts, William A. Graham, Deirdre C. Stam, Dorina Miller Parmenter, Michelle P. Brown, S. Brent Plate, Zeev Elitzur, Jacob Kinnard, M. Patrick Graham, Natalia K. Suit, Timothy Beal, Shawn Loner, Kristina Myrvold, Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Yohan Yoo, Brian Malley, Karl Ivan Solibakke, Philip P. Arnold, Jason T. Larson, Claudia V. Camp
Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension o...
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Interactions with Japanese Buddhism
In the early twentieth century, The Eastern Buddhist journal pioneered the presentation of Buddhism to the west and encouraged the west's engagement in interpretation. This interactive process increased dramatically in the post-war period, when dialogue between Buddhist and Christian thought began t...
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Celestial India
In 1917 Annie Besant, a white Englishwoman, was elected president of the Indian National Congress, the body which, under the guidance of Gandhi, would later lead India to independence. Besant - in her earlier career an active atheist and a socialist journalist - was from 1907 till her death the pres...
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Listening to Shin Buddhism
In the early twentieth century, The Eastern Buddhist Journal pioneered the presentation of Buddhism to the west and encouraged the west's engagement in interpretation. This interactive process increased dramatically in the postwar period, when dialogue between Buddhist and Christian thought began to...