Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
Asian Religions, Technology and Science
1st Edition
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By István Keul
June 28, 2018
Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas ...
Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia: Collaborations and Collisions
1st Edition
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By Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Zhou Xun
January 22, 2018
Recent academic and medical initiatives have highlighted the benefits of studying culturally embedded healing traditions that incorporate religious and philosophical viewpoints to better understand local and global healing phenomena. Capitalising on this trend, the present volume looks at the ...
Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism
1st Edition
By James Stewart
January 22, 2018
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 doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage ...
Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions: Forms, Practices and Meanings
1st Edition
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By Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold
January 12, 2018
Objects of worship are an aspect of the material dimension of lived religion in South Asia. The omnipresence of these objects and their use is a theme which cuts across the religious traditions in the pluralistic religious culture of the region. Divine power becomes manifest in the objects and for ...
Asian Perspectives on Animal Ethics: Rethinking the Nonhuman
1st Edition
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By Neil Dalal, Chloë Taylor
October 26, 2017
To date, philosophical discussions of animal ethics and Critical Animal Studies have been dominated by Western perspectives and Western thinkers. This book makes a novel contribution to animal ethics in showing the range and richness of ideas offered to these fields by diverse Asian traditions. ...
Postcolonial Resistance and Asian Theology
1st Edition
By Simon Kwan
October 13, 2017
Presenting a fundamental re-thinking of Asian theology, this book focuses on theological indigenization in Asia in light of the postcolonial theory of resistance advanced by Homi K. Bhabha, among others. Two types of anti-colonialist resistance within Asian theologies are identified and ...
'Yogini' in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
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By István Keul
October 12, 2017
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 adept of yoga, a female tantric practitioner, a sorceress, a woman dedicated to a deity, or a certain category of female deities. This book brings ...
The Buddha and Religious Diversity
1st Edition
By J. Abraham Velez de Cea
May 31, 2017
Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time. Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha’s approach to religious pluralism using four main ...
Christianity in Contemporary China: Socio-cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Francis Khek Gee Lim
May 18, 2017
Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to generate suspicion among political elites and intense debates among broader communities ...
The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony
1st Edition
By Chenyang Li
September 08, 2015
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, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian ...
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body
1st Edition
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By Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston
July 31, 2015
Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a ...
Japanese Religions and Globalization
1st Edition
By Ugo Dessì
July 16, 2015
This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of...