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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Islam has had a presence in China since the earliest years of the religion, initially with the sojourner populations of traders and diplomats from the heartland of the Islamic world on the periphery o... |
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Judith Hangartner
UNIVERSITY OF BERN
KEY FEATURE(S) This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby contributing a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia.
This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby contributing a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. ... |
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The Writings of Selcuk Esenbel
Selcuk Esenbel
BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL
KEY FEATURE(S) Widely known for her writings on Islam with a particular focus on Turkey and Japan, this volume brings together twenty of the author’s key essays thematically structured as Japan and Islam, Japanese-Ottoman Relations and Japanese-Turkish Interaction, and Reflections on Tokugawa Japan from Turkey.
Awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize for Japanese Studies in 2007, Selçuk Esenbel’s volume will provide an invaluable reference resource for current and future research in an increasingly import... |
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Won-oh Choi
SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Published in full colour throughout, this highly engaging volume - the first of its kind in English - by one of Korea’s leading scholars on comparative mythology, provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to individual destiny, love and family, the birth of heroes, the universe and ghosts, gods and exorcists. The illustrations comprise a wide variety of old Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as some contemporary paintings.
The text is divided into two parts: (1) The Bridge Connecting This Life and Eternity, which includes the story of Daebyeol-wang and Sobyeol-wang’s role in the origin of the world, and (2) Humanistic M... |
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Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva
TASHKENT UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) As well as being a valuable and insightful study into the history, development and tenets of Islam, with particular reference to life in Uzbekistan, this study, which draws on a wide personal network and extensive field research, is also in part a personal quest in support of women’s position and aspirations in the modern world.
In 1991, following the collapse of the USSR, Uzbekistan reappeared on the world map as an independent state within the Russian Federation, choosing the path of secular development and the creation of ... |
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From Social Darwinism to ‘Socialism with a Buddhist Face’
Owen Miller and Vladimir Tikhonov
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume concentrates on translations of Han Yongun’s principal non-literary works, which are published here in English for the first time, focusing on his ideas for the revitalization of Korean Buddhism in the modern world, the nature of Buddhism as a religion, a critique of atheist movements fashionable among the communists of his time, together with his memoirs of his early life and travels.
One of Korea’s most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement during the long years of Japan’s colonization of his country, Han Yongun – sobriquet ‘Manhae’ (1879-1944), wa... |
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Kenji Matsuo
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcomed. The main focus of the work is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.
Uniquely, Japanese Buddhist monks are allowed to marry (1872), thereby rejecting the traditional precepts; they are preoccupied, almost to the exclusion of other ‘community’ activities, with performin... |
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Kenji Matsuo
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) This first major study in English on Japanese Buddhism by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Religious Studies is to be widely welcomed. The main focus of the work is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese Buddhism as it appears in the present day.
Uniquely, Japanese Buddhist monks are allowed to marry (1872), thereby rejecting the traditional precepts; they are preoccupied, almost to the exclusion of other ‘community’ activities, with performin... |
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EDITED by Rebecca Empson
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
How do prophets and their prophecies influence the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian ... |
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A major philosophy of life in East Asia
Torbjorn Loden
UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM
KEY FEATURE(S) The main purpose of this book is to provide both an outline and an appraisal of
Confucianism as a system of ideas and beliefs thaT evolved during the past three millennia and continue to do so. Confucianism has not only been a philosophy of life for hundreds of millions of people, it has also been a guiding ideology for states, including the Chinese empire and the governments of contemporary Singapore and South Korea.
Written by one of Europe’s leading Chinese Studies scholars who is also co-founder of the Stockholm Academy of Chinese Culture, this volume offers students, researchers and followers alike a welcome n... |
