Asian religions : a cultural perspective /
Nadeau, Randall Laird, 1956-
Asian religions : a cultural perspective / Randall L Nadeau. - xii, 265 pages :illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religion -- Language -- Confucian -- Defining religion : the Confucian response -- The religious dimensions of Confucianism -- The self as a center of relationships -- Learning to be human -- Lasting influence of Confucianism in modern East Asia -- Taoist -- What is Taoism? -- Philosophical Taoism -- Temporal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Spatial dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Personal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Taoism as a global religious phenomenon -- Hindu -- What is hinduism -- Karma-marga -- JnÌna-Marga -- Bhakti-Marga -- Hinduism in the modern world -- Theravada -- Buddhism and the Buddha -- Suffering and its causes -- Buddhist ethics -- The fruits of meditation -- Monastic practice -- Mahayana -- Faith -- Principles of zen Buddhism -- Buddhism as a global religion -- Japanese -- Japanese religion and culture -- Shrine Shinto: dimensions of sacred time and space in Japan -- Dimensions of religion in modern Japan.
9781118471975 9781118471968
2013033146
Asia--Religion.
BL1033 / .N33 2014
200.95
Asian religions : a cultural perspective / Randall L Nadeau. - xii, 265 pages :illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religion -- Language -- Confucian -- Defining religion : the Confucian response -- The religious dimensions of Confucianism -- The self as a center of relationships -- Learning to be human -- Lasting influence of Confucianism in modern East Asia -- Taoist -- What is Taoism? -- Philosophical Taoism -- Temporal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Spatial dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Personal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Taoism as a global religious phenomenon -- Hindu -- What is hinduism -- Karma-marga -- JnÌna-Marga -- Bhakti-Marga -- Hinduism in the modern world -- Theravada -- Buddhism and the Buddha -- Suffering and its causes -- Buddhist ethics -- The fruits of meditation -- Monastic practice -- Mahayana -- Faith -- Principles of zen Buddhism -- Buddhism as a global religion -- Japanese -- Japanese religion and culture -- Shrine Shinto: dimensions of sacred time and space in Japan -- Dimensions of religion in modern Japan.
9781118471975 9781118471968
2013033146
Asia--Religion.
BL1033 / .N33 2014
200.95