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1. The Cultural Transition

   Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan

   Edited by Merry I White, Susan Pollak

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures....

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
2. An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

   With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases

   By William McGovern

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
3. Shinto

   At the Fountainhead of Japan

   By Jean Herbert

   Shinto, the national indigenous religion of Japan has supplied Japan with the basic structure of its mentality and behaviour. Although its classical texts have been translated into English this volume was the first major study of this important religion. The book is a complete picture of Shinto,...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
4. A Study of Shinto

   The Religion of the Japanese Nation

   By Genchi Katu

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Buddhist Sects of Japan

   Their History, Philosophical Doctrines and Sanctuaries

   By E Steinilber-Oberlin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   The philosophy of Buddhism, originating in India, has undergone considerable changes in its adoption in the Far East. It has, in Japan, assumed a more practical aspect, and has come to play an important role in the everyday life of action. But in this process Japanese Buddhism has split itself into...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
6. Islam in the West

   Edited by David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   In recent decades, the number of Muslims in the West has increased rapidly, and interesting transformations of Islam have taken place—to some extent with repercussions in Islamic or predominantly Muslim countries in Asia and Africa. This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge helps to...

   Published September 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Baha'is of Iran

   Socio-Historical Studies

   Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Seena B. Fazel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

   The Baha’i community of Iran is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Baha’i community, and its role in shaping modern Iran. Central to this study is the pioneering character...

   Published September 5th 2010 by Routledge
8. Routledge Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries

   Edited by Jonathan Bonk

   Series: Religion and Society

   The Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries examines the nature and effects of missionary work around the world and throughout history, analyzing how secular and clerical people from major religions (especially Christianity, Buddhism and Islam) have brought social changes along with words of a...

   Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
9. Islamic Medical and Scientific Tradition

   Edited by Peter Pormann

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Islam developed over the course of its history one of the world’s most innovative and interesting scientific and medical traditions. In this context, the term Islam should not simply be understood as referring to the religion of the prophet Muhammad, but rather to a civilization which was once...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
10. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

    Edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

    This collection brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics...

    Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge