Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion
Author: Samuel JohnsonOriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion. China
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385544068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Author: Thomas A. TweedPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807876151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact with America's established culture and fundamentally different Protestant tradition. The book, first published in 1992, traces the efforts of various American interpreters to make sense of Buddhism in Western terms. Tweed demonstrates that while many of those interested in Buddhism considered themselves dissenters from American culture, they did not abandon some of the basic values they shared with their fellow Victorians. In the end, the Victorian understanding of Buddhism, even for its most enthusiastic proponents, was significantly shaped by the prevailing culture. Although Buddhism attracted much attention, it ultimately failed to build enduring institutions or gain significant numbers of adherents in the nineteenth century. Not until the following century did a cultural environment more conducive to Buddhism's taking root in America develop. In a new preface, Tweed addresses Buddhism's growing influence in contemporary American culture.
Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259490753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Excerpt from Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: Persia His is the last volume Of Mr Johnson's projected work on Oriental Religions. The first volume, India, appeared in 1872. An intimate friend Of the author Of The Light Of Asia, one familiar with his thoughts, a fine scholar himself, a student, too, in this department, speaks Of it thus: His [mn Johnson's] sketch Of Buddha and Buddhism is one Of the profound est, wisest, justest estimates yet given. The second vol ume, China, was published in 1877. George Ripley reviewed it at length and heartily in the Tribune, praising the writer's freedom from sectarian temper, and his devotion to the interests Of truth. His friend, Samuel Longfellow, noticed the book in the Atlantic, rendering it no more than justice. Professor E. J. Eitel, Of Tubingen and hong-kong, writing in the China Review Of April 21, 1882, says Of Mr. Johnson, whose death he is commemorating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East
Author: American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
Author: Arthur VersluisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360370
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist Orientalism in Europe, Versluis covers the entire history of American Transcendentalism into the twentieth century, and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement--including its analogues and influences in world religious dialogue. He examines what he calls "positive Orientalism," which recognizes the value and perennial truths in Asian religions and cultures, not only in the writings of major figures like Thoreau and Emerson, but also in contemporary popular magazines. Versluis's exploration of the impact of Transcendentalism on the twentieth-century study of comparative religions has ramifications for the study of religious history, comparative religion, literature, politics, history, and art history.
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Author: Michael J. AltmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of "Hindoo heathenism" to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.
American Religious Liberalism
Author: Leigh E. SchmidtPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253002184
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
An enlightening look at the surprising connections between spirituality and progressive thought in the United States. Religious liberalism in America is often associated with an ecumenical Protestant establishment. This book, however, draws attention to the broad diversity of liberal cultures that shapes America’s religious movements. The essays gathered here push beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism’s dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America’s religious past and present in this richly provocative volume.
Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781406984408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
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Theosophy across Boundaries
Author: Hans Martin KrämerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438480431
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Theosophy across Boundaries brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of Theosophy in the general histories of religion, science, philosophy, art, and politics. The first half of the book consists of seven perspectives on the activities of the Theosophical Society in very different regional contexts, ranging from India, Vietnam, China, and Japan to Victorian Britain and Israel, shedding new light on the entanglement of "Western" and "Oriental" ideas around 1900. The second half explores specific cultural influences that Theosophy exerted in the spheres of literature, art, and politics, using case studies from Sri Lanka, Burma, India, Japan, Ireland, Germany, and Russia. The examples clearly show that Theosophy was part of a truly global movement, thus providing an outstanding example of the complex entanglements of the global religious history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.