Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism

Ryan Anningson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book analyzes Buddhist discussions of the Aryan myth and scientific racism and the ways in which this conversation reshaped Buddhism in the Unite... Lees meer

Christianity and the State in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy | nr. 4
• Considering Christianity's growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book examines how Christians in A... Lees meer

Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism

James Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist do... Lees meer

Christianity in Northeast India

Chongpongmeren Jamir

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book examines the distinctive formation of Christianity in Nagaland, Northeast India, since 1947. Lees meer

Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy

Daniel Raveh

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's s... Lees meer

The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony

Chenyang Li

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis... Lees meer

An Introduction to Daoist Thought

Eske Møllgaard

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy | nr. 2
• This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzi's thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi, a book in th... Lees meer

Japanese Religions and Globalization

Ugo Dessì

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of ... Lees meer

Indian Philosophy and Meditation

Rahul Banerjee, Amita Chatterjee

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book provides a detailed analysis of classical and modern Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative methods. It offers a ... Lees meer

Asian Religions, Technology and Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science in South and East Asia. T... Lees meer

Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book incorporates Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, both in order to render mo... Lees meer

Asian Religions, Technology and Science

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historica... Lees meer

The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions

Anway Mukhopadhyay

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu puranic and Shakta-tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems,... Lees meer

Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current ... Lees meer

Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy

Daniel Raveh

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's s... Lees meer

Islam and Cultural Change in Papua New Guinea

Scott Flower

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the m... Lees meer

'Yogini' in South Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• In different stages in the history of South Asian religions, the term yoginī has been used in various contexts to designate various things: a female a... Lees meer

Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• The striking parallels between Derrida's deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Budd... Lees meer

Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book incorporates Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, both in order to render mo... Lees meer

Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Objects of worship are one aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of objects of worship and their use is o... Lees meer

Christianity in India

Clara Joseph

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumpti... Lees meer

The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions

Anway Mukhopadhyay

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• This book explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu puranic and Shakta-tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems,... Lees meer

The Buddha and Religious Diversity

J Abraham Velez de Cea

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understand... Lees meer

The Buddha and Religious Diversity

J Abraham Velez de Cea

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
• Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understand... Lees meer