Buddhism and the Legitimation of Power
Author | : Darini Rajasingham Senanayake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Buddhism and politics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Darini Rajasingham Senanayake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Buddhism and politics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bardwell L. Smith |
Publisher | : American Teilhard Association |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frank Reynolds |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520211056 |
Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.
Author | : Rebecca Redwood French |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521515793 |
This volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law.
Author | : Bardwell L. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Bouddhisme - Sri Lanka - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780890120088 |
Divided into two volumes, The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature offers a landmark collection of writings from twenty Christian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and analyses of their work by leading contemporary religious scholars.With selections from the works of Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Dorothy Day, Pope John Paul II, Susan B. Anthony, Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Lossky, and others, Volume 2 illustrates the different venues, vectors, and sometimes-conflicting visions of what a Christian understanding of law, politics, and society entails. The collection includes works by popes, pastors, nuns, activists, and theologians writing from within the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian traditions. Addressing racism, totalitarianism, sexism, and other issues, many of the figures in this volume were the victims of church censure, exile, imprisonment, assassination, and death in Nazi concentration camps. These writings amplify the long and diverse tradition of modern Christian social thought and its continuing relevance to contemporary pluralistic societies. The volume speaks to questions regarding the nature and purpose of law and authority, the limits of rule and obedience, the care and nurture of the needy and innocent, the rights and wrongs of war and violence, and the separation of church and state. The historical focus and ecumenical breadth of this collection fills an important scholarly gap and revives the role of Christian social thought in legal and political theory.The first volume of The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law Politics, and Human Nature includes essays by leading contemporary religious scholars, exploring the ideas, influences, and intellectual and cultural contexts of the figures from this volume.
Author | : Joseph Walser |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317354583 |
Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the “origins” of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of political and social power in the scholarly imagination of the history of Buddhism that has made the origins of Mahāyāna an intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held assumptions about Mahāyāna Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from the present day back to the time before Mahāyāna was “Mahāyāna.” In situating such concepts in their political and social contexts across diverse regimes of power in Tibet, China and India, the book shows that what was at stake in the Mahāyāna championing of the doctrine of emptiness was the articulation and dissemination of court authority across the rural landscapes of Asia. This text will be will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of Buddhism, religious studies, history and philosophy.
Author | : Matthew J. Moore |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190465522 |
Despite the recent upsurge of interest in comparative political theory, there has been virtually no serious examination of Buddhism by political philosophers in the past five decades. In part, this is because Buddhism is not typically seen as a school of political thought. However, as Matthew Moore argues, Buddhism simultaneously parallels and challenges many core assumptions and arguments in contemporary Western political theory. In brief, Western thinkers not only have a great deal to learn about Buddhism, they have a great deal to learn from it. To both incite and facilitate the process of Western theorists engaging with this neglected tradition, this book provides a detailed, critical reading of the key primary Buddhist texts, from the earliest recorded teachings of the Buddha through the present day. It also discusses the relevant secondary literature on Buddhism and political theory (nearly all of it from disciplines other than political theory), as well as the literatures on particular issues addressed in the argument. Moore argues that Buddhist political thought rests on three core premises--that there is no self, that politics is of very limited importance in human life, and that normative beliefs and judgments represent practical advice about how to live a certain way, rather than being obligatory commands about how all persons must act. He compares Buddhist political theory to what he sees as Western analogues--Nietzsche's similar but crucially different theory of the self, Western theories of limited citizenship from Epicurus to John Howard Yoder, and to the Western tradition of immanence theories in ethics. This will be the first comprehensive treatment of Buddhism as political theory.
Author | : Frank Reynolds |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-12-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520223370 |
Bringing together 15 essays by international Buddhist scholars, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the life of Buddhism. The contributors focus on a range of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from New York to Tibet.
Author | : Hiroko Kawanami |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137574003 |
This study examines the impact of Buddhism on the political process of Asian countries in recent times. The intersection between Buddhism and politics; religious authority and political power is explored through the engagement of Buddhist monks and lay activists in the process of nation-building, development, and implementation of democracy.
Author | : Kevin Trainor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1997-06-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780521582803 |
This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance and representation which makes present the Buddha of the past for living Buddhists. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientation and ritual behaviour centred on the Buddha's material remains, he contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism which is currently under way among Western scholars. This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist relics. It is well written and accessible and will be read by scholars and serious students of Buddhism and religious studies for years to come.