The Oriental Religions and American Thought - 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 Oriental Religions and American Thought write by Carl T. Jackson. This book was released on 1981. The Oriental Religions and American Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religious Diversity and American Religious History
Religious Diversity and American Religious History - 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 Religious Diversity and American Religious History write by Walter H. Conser. This book was released on 1997. Religious Diversity and American Religious History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ten essays in this volume explore the vast diversity of religions in the United States, from Judaic, Catholic, and African American to Asian, Muslim, and Native American traditions. Chapters on religion and the South, religion and gender, indigenous sectarian religious movements, and the metaphysical tradition round out the collection. The contributors examine the past, present, and future of American religion, first orienting readers to historiographic trends and traditions of interpretation in each area, then providing case studies to show their vision of how these areas should be developed. Full of provocative insights into the complexity of American religion, this volume helps us better understand America's religious history and its future challenges and directions.
Eastern Religions and Western Thought
Eastern Religions and Western Thought - 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 Eastern Religions and Western Thought write by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. This book was released on 1940. Eastern Religions and Western Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, author Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a philosopher and former President of India, describes leading ideas of Indian philosophy and religion. He traces the probable influence of Indian mysticism on Greek thought and Christian development, through Alexandrian Judaism, Christian Gnosticism, and Neo-Platonism. Radhakrishnan argues that Christianity arose out of an eastern background, became wedded to Graeco-Latin culture, and will find rebirth in a renewed alliance with this Eastern heritage--From publisher description.
Readings in Eastern Religions
Readings in Eastern Religions - 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 Readings in Eastern Religions write by Harold G. Coward. This book was released on 1988-09-19. Readings in Eastern Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Developed principally for use in introductory courses in the study of religious traditions in the East, this anthology offers a selection of readings from primary texts of India, China and Japan. The selections are arranged both chronologically and thematically within religious traditions and include readings from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism (including Tibetan Buddhism), Sikhism, Early Chinese thought, Confuciansiim, Taoism, Mao Tse Tung, Shintoism, and Japan’s new religions (Tenrikyo and Sokka Gakkai). Throughout the anthology, an effort has been made to present more than the usual short excerpts. As much as possible larger excerpts have been included to give students a better sense of significant developments within traditions. As well, doctrinal elements have been combined with story to make these traditions more than museum pieces for students.
American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions - 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 American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions write by Arthur Versluis. This book was released on 1993. American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arthur Versluis offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between the American Transcendentalists and Asian religions. He argues that an influx of new information about these religions shook nineteenth-century American religious consciousness to the core. With the publication of ever more material on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, the Judeo-Christian tradition was inevitably placed as just one among a number of religious traditions. Fundamentalists and conservatives denounced this influx as a threat, but the Transcendentalists embraced it, poring over the sacred books of Asia to extract ethical injunctions, admonitions to self-transcendence, myths taken to support Christian doctrines, and manifestations of a supposed coming universal religion.
