Polity, 2019. — 200 p. In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China. Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches, anthropologist Adam Yuet Chau's vivid study explores how religion is embedded in contemporary Chinese lives and society, from personal devotion to community-wide festivals. Covering...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period. In order to adapt Buddhist ideas and imagery to the Chinese context, writers reinterpreted and...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period. In order to adapt Buddhist ideas and imagery to the Chinese context, writers reinterpreted and...
Brill, 2017. — xvi, 300 p. — (Studies in Christian Mission 50). Among the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as “Chinese” when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework....
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 217 p. — ISBN10: 0190648457, ISBN13: 978-0190648459. This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching). The...
Brill, 2000. — vi, 370 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 46). If any subject lends itself to treatment in an edited volume, it is Chinese Religions; It is a recognized fact that the boundaries between the various religions in China, and those between religion and culture in general, have always been fluid. This can only be duly acknowledged by careful research from many angles – and by...
Brill, 2010. — xvi, 320 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 23/1). Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation...
Brill, 2010. — xxx, 1062 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4. China 23/2). — ISBN 978-90-04-17601-0. Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth...
Brill, 2016. — vol. 1: xvi, 578 p.; vol. 2: viii, 526 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 32). The last of four two-volume sets on the key periods of paradigm shift in Chinese religious and cultural history, this book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media, and gender,...
Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1904. — 122 S. The second volume of the collection of the Manichaean Turfan fragments in Manichaean ("Estrangelo") script, edited by Friedrich Müller.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 512 p. Comprising the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary research on the study of Chinese religious beliefs and cultural practices, this volume explores the rich and complex religious and philosophical traditions that have developed and flourished in one of the world's oldest civilizations. - Covers the main Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Taoism,...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 350 p. For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. — 372 p. Evidence from Shang Oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and...
Brill, 1992. — xiv, 346 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 26). This book provides a new hypothesis for understanding the real nature of the term White Lotus Teachings. The author argues that there are actually two different phenomena covered by similar terms: from c. 1130 until 1400, a real lay Buddhist movement existed, which can be called the White Lotus movement. It enjoyed the respect...
Москва: Университетская типография, 1901. – 61 с. Сергей Сергеевич Глаголев (1865-1937), лучший специалист по религиоведению в дореволюционной России, был профессором Московской духовной академии, где преподавал апологетику (основное богословие), философию и историю религии. В 1900 г. на съезде религиоведов в Париже Глаголев был избран вице-президентом Всемирного конгресса...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 220 с. — ISBN 5-02-016950-1.
Работа посвящена феномену сектантства, составлявшему на протяжении многих веков существенный компонент китайской традиционной культуры. Рассматриваются истоки сектантской религии; ее генетическая связь с даосизмом и буддизмом; формирование на этой основе эсхатологической доктрины сектантства, определявшей неизбежность конфликта с...
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