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Eastern religions
About: Eastern religions is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 521 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11132 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern religions.
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15 May 2005
TL;DR: The authors examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought through a close reading of a variety of sources as early as the seventeenth century, focusing particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion.
Abstract: The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought through a close reading of a variety of sources as early as the seventeenth century. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms - Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century, to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.
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01 Jan 1969
TL;DR: The concept of time as a key to the understanding and interpretation of African Religions and philosophy is discussed in this paper, where the authors present a list of African peoples mentioned in this book, including Medicine-Men, Rainmakers, Kings and Priests.
Abstract: Preface1.Introduction2.The Study of African Religions and Philosophy3.The Concept of Time as a Key to the Understanding and Interpretation of African Religions and Philosophy4.The Nature of God5.The Works of God6.God and Nature7.The Worship of God8.Spiritual Beings, Spirits and the Living-Dead9.The Creation and Original State of Man10.Ethnic Groups, Kinship and The Individual11.Birth and Childhood12.Initiation and Puberty Rites13.Marriage and Procreation14.Death and the Hereafter15.Specialists: Medicine-Men, Rainmakers, Kings and Priests16.Mystical Power, Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery17.The Concepts of Evil, Ethics and Justice18.Changing Man and His Problems19.Christianity, Islam and Other Religions in Africa20.The Search for New Values, Identity and SecuritySelect BibiliographyAppendix: Supplementary Select BibliographyIndexesMap and list of African peoples mentioned in this book
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