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Yasukuni Fundamentalism

Mullins, Mark R / McMullen, Matthew
Yasukuni Fundamentalism
Recent decades have seen a rise in religious nationalism and fundamentalism around the world. This book focuses attention on a Japanese expression of fundamentalism and neonationalism based on Shinto and symbolically centered on Yasukuni Shrine. The Shinto tradition is often seen as a very tolerant expression of religion that allows for diverse forms of belief and practice, but when closely tied to the interests of the state or political power...

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California Dreaming

Balance, Christine Bacareza / Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo / Leong, Russell / Yoo, David K
California Dreaming
California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here, "California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural ...

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Monastic Education in Korea

Kaplan, Uri / Rowe, Mark Michael
Monastic Education in Korea
The central objective of this book lies in discovering which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature Korean Buddhist professionals choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what they elect to leave out. It asks why these texts are chosen, who does the choosing, and how the selected pedagogical programs shape and reflect the way monks and nuns comprehend their religion and their roles within it. ...

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The Return of Lono

Bushnell, Elizabeth K / Bushnell, O a
The Return of Lono
This time the many times told tragedy of the violent end of Captain Cook at the hands of the natives of Hawaii is put into the form of a novel, told in the first person by Midshipman John Forrest, who acted as Cook's clerk. It is an absorbing tale, whether or not it is familiar in its essentials. Bushuell has given it full panoply of descriptive effects, as the meeting of the British expedition and the credulous natives becomes a ritualistic c...

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