Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set) write by Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard. This book was released on 2016-12-12. Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with nearly 90 million members, is the largest ruling political party in the world. Its power and influence reach into every corner of state, society and economy in China. Given the CCP’s omnipresence, in-depth knowledge of how the CCP is organised and managed and how it will likely evolve is of paramount importance and is a basic prerequisite for understanding China’s rise. By bringing together the best scholarship on the CCP, covering areas such as organisation, cadre management, recruitment and training, ideology and propaganda, factions and elites, reform and adaptation, corruption and law, this collection provides a key to open the black box of Chinese politics.
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan
Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan write by Galen Amstutz. This book was released on 2020-06-08. Critical Readings on Pure Land Buddhism in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pure Land was one of the main fields of mythopoesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist traditions, and in Japan of central cultural importance from the Heian period right up to the present. The pieces reproduced in this set have been chosen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity and evolution of Pure Land Buddhism. These selections of previously published articles will serve as an essential starting-point for anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated area of Buddhist studies.
Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan
Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan write by Mark R. Mullins. This book was released on 2015. Critical Readings on Christianity in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church write by Andrew Louth. This book was released on 2022-02-17. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,500 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; other church leaders; saints; and mystics. In this new edition, great efforts have been made to increase and strengthen coverage of non-Anglican denominations (for example non-Western European Christianity), as well as broadening the focus on Christianity and the history of churches in areas beyond Western Europe. In particular, there have been extensive additions with regards to the Christian Church in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Australasia. Significant updates have also been included on topics such as liturgy, Canon Law, recent international developments, non-Anglican missionary activity, and the increasingly important area of moral and pastoral theology, among many others. Since its first appearance in 1957, the ODCC has established itself as an essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, and an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.
Multiple Secularities Beyond the West
Multiple Secularities Beyond the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiple Secularities Beyond the West write by Marian Burchardt. This book was released on 2015-02-17. Multiple Secularities Beyond the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.
