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Rage and Ravage
Author | : Bernard Faure |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2021-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824889364 |
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Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Rage and Ravage is the third installment of a milestone project in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism—specifically the nature and roles of deities in the religious world of medieval Japan and beyond. Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity and shows the centrality of the gods in religious discourse and ritual; in doing so he moves away from the usual textual, historical, and sociological approaches that constitute the “method” of current religious studies. Throughout, he engages theoretical insights drawn from structuralism, post-structuralism, and Actor-Network Theory to retrieve the “implicit pantheon” (as opposed to the “explicit orthodox pantheon”) of esoteric Japanese Buddhism (Mikkyō). In volumes one and two, The Fluid Pantheon and Protectors and Predators, Faure argued against a polarity or dichotomy between buddhas and kami by emphasizing the existence of deities that did not belong to either category, and he rejected the retrospective notion of “hybridity.” The present work makes a similar case about the reified distinction between gods and demons to show that, due to the fluid nature of the Japanese pantheon, these terms do not represent stable identities: Gods can become demons, and demons are sometimes deified. Divine protectors were often former predators, and in some instances they retained their predatory features even after being converted. After emphasizing the demonic aspects of devas as “gods or spirits of obstacles” in the earlier volumes, Faure now focuses on the deva-like or “divine” aspects of deities that have been described as “demonic.” Rage and Ravage and its companion volumes persuade readers that the gods constituted a central part of medieval Japanese religion and that the latter cannot be reduced to a simplistic confrontation, parallelism, or complementarity between some monolithic teachings known as “Buddhism” and “Shinto.” Once these reductionist labels and categories are discarded, a new and fascinating religious landscape begins to unfold.
The Art of English Poetry The sixth edition corrected and enlarged First volume
Author | : Edward BYSSHE (Author of “The Art of English Poetry.”.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1725 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0024329965 |
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Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Grand Dictionnaire Fran ais Anglais Et Anglais Fran ais
Author | : Charles Fleming (Professor at the College Louis-le-Grand.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1256 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:B900055180 |
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Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English Compiled from the Dictionaries of Johnson Todd by Professors Fleming and Tibbins
Author | : Charles Fleming |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1254 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IBNN:BNVA1001550031 |
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Grammatical Institutes of the French Language designed for the use of schools Part the first A guide to the French pronunciation
Author | : Jean Thomas HÉRISSANT DES CARRIÈRES |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020145007 |
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Readings in Classical Political Thought
Author | : Peter J. Steinberger |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0872205126 |
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Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thought, this anthology has at its core generous selections from Plato and Aristotle. Building on this core is a sufficiently diverse and substantial selection of texts from other writers--including Thucydides and the Sophists--to allow for inquiry into the variety of Classical Greek approaches to politics, as well as into Roman, Medieval and Renaissance developments of the classical tradition. Preeminent translations and the editor's own thoughtful introductions further distinguish this unique anthology.
A Dictionnary of the English Language
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1773 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BML:37001102502924 |
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The New Universal English and Italian Dictionary Etc
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1108 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0022875846 |
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