{"title":"From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation. By Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $99.00 (cloth).","authors":"Jiang Wu","doi":"10.1086/706497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"9 1","pages":"240-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86311455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The following pages are the venue of numerous struggles. The most immediate struggle is mine, aimed at making sense of works composed centuries ago. Then there is the labor of the works’ authors, to relate matters assimilated from texts and personal encounters with the living and the dead. In this instance, the act of writing was part of the effort to lead a religious life sometimes at odds with a purely worldly outlook. And there are general existential paradoxes about life and death that have driven human beings to speak since times immemorial. By bringing the notion of struggle to the forefront, I want to emphasize the plenitude of ideas and experiences found in Islamic texts. As scholars of religious worlds, we are compelled to reduce complex sources into systemic phenomena. We have to present the material in distilled form, but doing so glosses over the fact that we usually thematize a small proportion of theworks and have no straightforward access to authors’ intentions. Although tied to conventions of genre, a complex textual work is also always the final product of a creative exercise in which ideas and experiences from a lived human context have been sublimated into verbal form. Registering the labors that go into writing and reading such works helps us see them as elements of scenes in motion rather than static representations of an unchanging world.
{"title":"The Living Dead of Tabriz: Explorations in Chronotopic Imagination","authors":"S. Bashir","doi":"10.1086/706500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706500","url":null,"abstract":"The following pages are the venue of numerous struggles. The most immediate struggle is mine, aimed at making sense of works composed centuries ago. Then there is the labor of the works’ authors, to relate matters assimilated from texts and personal encounters with the living and the dead. In this instance, the act of writing was part of the effort to lead a religious life sometimes at odds with a purely worldly outlook. And there are general existential paradoxes about life and death that have driven human beings to speak since times immemorial. By bringing the notion of struggle to the forefront, I want to emphasize the plenitude of ideas and experiences found in Islamic texts. As scholars of religious worlds, we are compelled to reduce complex sources into systemic phenomena. We have to present the material in distilled form, but doing so glosses over the fact that we usually thematize a small proportion of theworks and have no straightforward access to authors’ intentions. Although tied to conventions of genre, a complex textual work is also always the final product of a creative exercise in which ideas and experiences from a lived human context have been sublimated into verbal form. Registering the labors that go into writing and reading such works helps us see them as elements of scenes in motion rather than static representations of an unchanging world.","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"91 1","pages":"169 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76059337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raw Power and the Occult: A Review","authors":"J. Modern","doi":"10.1086/706501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"20 1","pages":"222 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82538995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture. By Per Faxneld. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. x+566. $39.95 (cloth).","authors":"Dawn M. Coleman","doi":"10.1086/706499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706499","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"755 1","pages":"234-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78800238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha. By Micah Auerback. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xii+358, 12 halftones. $40.00 (cloth); $10.00–$40.00 (e-book).","authors":"Hans Martin Krämer","doi":"10.1086/706498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706498","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"94 1","pages":"237-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84303965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha. By Donald S. Lopez Jr. Buddhism and Modernity Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xi+259. $27.50 (paper); $90.00 (cloth).","authors":"Trent Pomplun","doi":"10.1086/704932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83728555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. Townsend Lecture Series/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. By Jörg Rüpke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. 208. $49.95 (cloth).","authors":"Heidi Wendt","doi":"10.1086/704933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83366394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner. By Harriet I. Flower. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 416. $45.00 (cloth).","authors":"L. Petersen","doi":"10.1086/704931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/704931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45784,"journal":{"name":"HISTORY OF RELIGIONS","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77256130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
0018-2710/2019/5902-0003$10.00 1 To date, the scholarly literature about “Eng of the mainstream, denominational Buddhist e taken here in opposition to New Religious Mov dhist groups that operate in Japan but are not h extent that the establishment has long been mo order than in remaking it, this may not simply critics, like [the Thai activist] Sulak Sivaraksa, of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), feel that Japan dhist movement,” we are told. “At a public sym REVIEW ARTICLE
我们被告知,到目前为止,关于“主流佛教教派的佛教在这里反对在日本运作的新宗教运动(New Religious Mov)佛教团体,但在某种程度上,建制派长期以来没有秩序,而是在重塑秩序,这可能不仅仅是像[泰国活动家]Sulak Sivaraksa一样的批评者,从事佛教徒(INEB),认为日本的佛教运动,”我们被告知。在一篇公共系统评论文章中
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0018-2710/2019/5902-0002$10.00 I am grateful to the two anonymous reviewe critical suggestions, as well as to the followin various earlier drafts: Sadia Abbas, Kadji Amin Omnia El Shakry, Carl Ernst, Kathy Ewing, M Khan, Ranjana Khanna, Sam Kigar, Jeffrey K Longo, Barbara Metcalf, Ebrahim Moosa, Geet Lucinda Ramberg, Johannes Rosenbaum, Usha Wiegman, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. I Kalman P. Bland, whose gentle ways and sage 1 See Arnold I. Davidson, The Emergence of mation of Concepts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard GENRES OF DES IRE : THE EROTIC IN DEOBAND Ī I SLAM Ali Altaf Mian
我非常感谢两位匿名评论者的批评建议,以及以下早期草稿:Sadia Abbas、Kadji Amin Omnia El Shakry、Carl Ernst、Kathy Ewing、M Khan、Ranjana Khanna、Sam Kigar、Jeffrey K Longo、Barbara Metcalf、Ebrahim Moosa、Geet Lucinda Ramberg、Johannes Rosenbaum、Usha Wiegman和Muhammad Qasim Zaman。我卡尔曼·p·布兰德,他温柔的方式和圣人1见阿诺德·I·戴维森,概念形成的出现(剑桥,马萨诸塞州:哈佛DES IRE的流派:情色在DEOBAND Ī我SLAM阿里·阿尔塔夫米安
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