Author: John Whitney Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9780521223539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.
Author: Stuart D. b. Picken
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002-01-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0810866153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This dictionary contains entries which identify the principal historical and mythological names that are central to the Shinto tradition but also demonstrate the relationship of Shinto to Japanese culture. Subjects covered include: the relationship of Shi.
Author: Edward R. Beauchamp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1351387146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1989, includes essays on a number of the most important topics in Japanese education as well as the highly selected, and annotated, bibliographies. It is the editors' belief that understanding educational matters requires insight into the historical context, and have therefore placed contemporary Japanese educational matters in historical perspective.
Author: John Breen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1136827048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating Shinto's place in Japanese religious culture. In recent years, a few books on medieval Shinto have appeared, but none has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine critically Shinto's origins and its subsequent development through the medieval, pre-modern and modern periods. The essays in this book address such key topics as Shinto and Daoism in early Japan, Shinto and the natural environment, Shinto and state ritual in early Japan, Shinto and Buddhism in medieval Japan, and Shinto and the state in the modern period. All of the essays highlight the dynamic nature of Shinto and shrine history by focusing on the three-way relationship, often fraught, between local shrine cults, Shinto agendas and Buddhism.
Author: Richard Perren
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780719024580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Russell Kirkland
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2004-05-07
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0203646711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents volume thirteen of a fourteen-volume series on World Religions exploring the origins of Taoism in China, its central beliefs and restoration under China's religious freedom clause, rituals, sacred sites, and more.
Author: John Renard
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780809140916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reader-friendly introduction to the history, beliefs, structures and practices of three major indigenous religious traditions of East Asia -- Confucianism, Daoism and Shinto.
Author: Judith D. Chapman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-10
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 940178972X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The International Handbook on Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith Based Schools is international in scope. It is addressed to policy makers, academics, education professionals and members of the wider community. The book is divided into three sections. (1) The Educational, Historical, Social and Cultural Context, which aims to: Identify the educational, historical, social and cultural bases and contexts for the development of learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools across a range of international settings; Consider the current trends, issues and controversies facing the provision and nature of education in faith-based schools; Examine the challenges faced by faith-based schools and their role and responses to current debates concerning science and religion in society and its institutions. (2) The Nature, Aims and Values of Education in Faith-based Schools, which aims to: Identify and explore the distinctive philosophies, characteristics and guiding principles, values, concepts and concerns underpinning learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools; Identify and explore ways in which such distinctive philosophies of education challenge and expand different norms and conventions in their surrounding societies and cultures; Examine and explore some of the ways in which different conceptions within and among different religious and faith traditions guide practices in learning, teaching and leadership in various ways. (3) Current Practice and Future Possibilities, which aims to: Provide evidence of current educational practices that might help to inform and shape innovative and successful policies, initiatives and strategies for the development of quality learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools; Examine the ways in which the professional learning of teachers and educational leaders in faith- based settings might be articulated and developed; Consider the ways in which coherence and alignment might be achieved between key national priorities in education and the identity, beliefs, and the commitments of faith-based schools; Examine what international experience shows about the place of faith-based schools in culturally rich and diverse communities and the implications of faith-based schooling for societies of the future.
Author: Livia Kohn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-12-24
Total Pages: 955
ISBN-13: 9004391843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism. The chapters are devoted to either specific periods, or topics such as Women in Daoism, Daoism in Korea and Daoist Ritual Music. Each chapter rigidly deals with a fixed set of aspects, such as history, texts, worldview and practices. Clear markings in the chapters themselves and a detailed index make this volume the most accessible key resource on Daoism past and present.