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1. Cover image for 'The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess'
The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess
Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu
Edward Kamens
Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period
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1. Cover image for 'The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess'
The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess
Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu
Volume: 5
Edward Kamens
Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period
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2. Cover image for 'Essays on the Modern Japanese Church'
Essays on the Modern Japanese Church
Christianity in Meiji Japan
Yamaji Aizan; Translated by Graham Squires, with Introductory Essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion
Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan
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Essays on the Modern Japanese Church
Christianity in Meiji Japan
Volume: 27
Yamaji Aizan; Translated by Graham Squires, with Introductory Essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion
Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan
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2. Cover image for 'Essays on the Modern Japanese Church'
Essays on the Modern Japanese Church
Christianity in Meiji Japan
Yamaji Aizan; Translated by Graham Squires, with Introductory Essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion
Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan
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Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
Rajyashree Pandey
Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan
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Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
Volume: 21
Rajyashree Pandey
Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan
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3. Cover image for 'Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan'
Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
Rajyashree Pandey
Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan
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Shugendo
Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
Volume: 32
Miyake Hitoshi; Edited and with an Introduction by H. Byron Earhart
The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion
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5. Cover image for 'Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan'
Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan
A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers
Volume: 41
Helen Hardacre
A detailed analysis of the structure of nineteenth-century Japanese religious institutions
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6. Cover image for 'On the Banks of the Ganga'
On the Banks of the Ganga
When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River
Kelly D. Alley
Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)
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7. Cover image for 'Our Women Are Free'
Our Women Are Free
Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush
Wynne Maggi
An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province
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8. Cover image for 'Unconventional Sisterhood'
Unconventional Sisterhood
Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines
Heather L. Claussen
An unusual ethnography of Catholic sisters in the Philippines
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9. Cover image for 'Christianity in Rural China'
Christianity in Rural China
Conflict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900
Volume: 91
Alan Richard Sweeten
Revises earlier accounts of conflict between Christians and the Chinese state, showing through archival evidence that nonreligious problems were more often the source of intergroup conflict in Jiangxi in the late Qing dynasty
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10. Cover image for 'The Middle East Remembered'
The Middle East Remembered
Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces
Jacob Lassner
A meditation on the art of history-writing in the medieval Near East
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11. Cover image for 'The Rope of God'
The Rope of God
James T. Siegel
An ethnography of Aceh, Indonesia, by a master anthropologist
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12. Cover image for 'God of the Dao'
God of the Dao
Lord Lao in History and Myth
Volume: 84
Livia Kohn
Illuminates the story of Lord Lao through historical analysis and mythological narrative to show its influence on traditional Chinese religion
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12. Cover image for 'God of the Dao'
God of the Dao
Lord Lao in History and Myth
Volume: 84
Livia Kohn
Illuminates the story of Lord Lao through historical analysis and mythological narrative to show its influence on traditional Chinese religion
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Paper 1999 $26.00 Available Add Paper for "God of the Dao" to Cart
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13. Cover image for 'The Tale of Saigyo'
The Tale of Saigyo
Volume: 25
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Meredith McKinney
A moving portrait of a wandering poet-monk in medieval Japan.
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Paper 1998 $14.95 Available Add Paper for "The Tale of Saigyo" to Cart
14. Cover image for 'Rethinking Sorrow'
Rethinking Sorrow
Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan
Volume: 6
Margaret Helen Childs
Provides fresh translations and readings of a small, coherent subgroup of short stories that describe how people were inspired to religious commitment
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Paper 1991 $20.00 Available Add Paper for "Rethinking Sorrow" to Cart
15. Cover image for 'Changing Lives, Changing Rites'
Changing Lives, Changing Rites
Ritual and Social Dynamics in Philippine and Indonesian Uplands
Susan D. Russell and Clark E. Cunningham, Editors
Seven papers explore the ways in which cultural identity and socioeconomic change among local societies in insular Southeast Asia are expressed in ritual
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Paper 1999 $17.95 Available Add Paper for "Changing Lives, Changing Rites" to Cart
16. Cover image for 'Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques'
Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques
Volume: 61
Edited by Livia Kohn, in cooperation with Yoshinobu Sakade
French, German, and Japanese scholars explore historical and technical as well as religious aspects of Taoism, ranging from pre-Han practice to the contemporary revival
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Paper 1989 $26.00 Available Add Paper for "Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques" to Cart
17. Cover image for 'The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia'
The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia
Volume: 20
Mary Cummings
Twenty-seven Jataka tales and Life-of-the-Buddha episodes are compared with depictions of these stories in Asian art.
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