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Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place
Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
Av Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara
Häftad, 2004
411 kr
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UBC Press is pleased to announce a new series in Asian religions. Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place, a Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Literature, is the first book in this series. Click here to see other titles in this series.This book brings together essays by …
Gandharan Buddhism
Archaeology, Art, and Texts
Av Kurt Behrendt, Pia Brancaccio
Häftad, 2007
496 kr
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The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we …
Japan's Modern Prophet
Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930
Häftad, 2006
527 kr
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Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan's foremost thinkers, whose ideasinfluenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religiousleaders. He lived at a time of increasing modernization and rapidsocial change. Known as the originator and proponent of a particularly"Japanese" form of …
Asian Religions in British Columbia
Av Larry DeVries, Don Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1066 kr
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British Columbia is Canada’s most ethnically diverse province. Although the presence of Asian religions is felt and discussed in many regions, we know little about the religions that accompanied immigrants from Asia or how they are practised today.Asian Religions in British Columbia brings together …
Reforming Japan
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
Inbunden, 2010
1181 kr
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In 1902 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)petitioned the Japanese government to abolish the custom of rewardinggood deeds and patriotic service with the bestowal of sake cups.Alcohol production and consumption, its members argued, harmedindividuals, endangered public welfare, and wasted …
Reforming Japan
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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In 1902 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)petitioned the Japanese government to abolish the custom of rewardinggood deeds and patriotic service with the bestowal of sake cups.Alcohol production and consumption, its members argued, harmedindividuals, endangered public welfare, and wasted …
Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
Inbunden, 2011
1216 kr
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The lives of early Japanese and Chinese settlers in British Columbia have come to define the Asian experience in Canada. Yet many Chinese men did not seek their destiny in British Columbia, but followed the railway east and settled in small Prairie towns and cities. The Way of the Bachelor …
Xavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
Inbunden, 2011
440 kr
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Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed …
Images in Asian Religions
Text and Contexts
Av Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara
Häftad, 2005
411 kr
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UBC Press is pleased to announce a new series in Asian religions.Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place, a Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book onBuddhism and Comparative Literature, is the first book in this series.Click here to see other titles in this series. The study of images in Asian religions has …
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place
Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
Av Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara
Inbunden, 2003
1178 kr
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UBC Press is pleased to announce a new series in Asian religions. Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place, a Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Literature, is the first book in this series. Click here to see other titles in this series.This book brings together essays by …
American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73
Av Hamish Ion
Inbunden, 2009
1223 kr
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Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred yearsbecause of religious and political instability caused by Christianity.By 1859, foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports inJapan, but edicts banning Christianity remained enforced until1873.Ion investigates the impact of …
American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73
Av Hamish Ion
Häftad, 2010
412 kr
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Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred yearsbecause of religious and political instability caused by Christianity.By 1859, foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports inJapan, but edicts banning Christianity remained enforced until1873.Ion investigates the impact of …
Asian Religions in British Columbia
Av Larry DeVries, Don Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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British Columbia is Canada's most ethnically diverse province. Although the presence of Asian religions is felt and discussed in many regions, we know little about the religions that accompanied immigrants from Asia or how they are practised today.Asian Religions in British Columbia brings together …
Way of the Bachelor
Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
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The lives of early Japanese and Chinese settlers in British Columbia have come to define the Asian experience in Canada. Yet many Chinese men did not seek their destiny in British Columbia, but followed the railway east and settled in small Prairie towns and cities.The Way of the Bachelor documents …
Xavier's Legacies
Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture
Häftad, 2012
426 kr
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Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed …
