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Author | : Mark A. Nathan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824876156 |
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At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) had severely weakened Buddhist institutions. Prior to 1895, monastics were prohibited by law from freely entering major cities and remained isolated in the mountains where most of the surviving temples and monasteries were located. In the coming decades, profound changes in Korean society and politics would present the Buddhist community with new opportunities to pursue meaningful reform. The central pillar of these reform efforts was p’ogyo, the active propagation of Korean Buddhist teachings and practices, which subsequently became a driving force behind the revitalization of Buddhism in twentieth-century Korea. From the Mountains to the Cities traces p’ogyo from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. While advocates stressed the traditional roots and historical precedents of the practice, they also viewed p’ogyo as an effective method for the transformation of Korean Buddhism into a modern religion—a strategy that proved remarkably resilient as a response to rapidly changing social, political, and legal environments. As an organizational goal, the concerted effort to propagate Buddhism conferred legitimacy and legal recognition on Buddhist temples and institutions, enabled the Buddhist community to compete with religious rivals (especially Christian missionaries), and ultimately provided a vehicle for transforming a “mountain-Buddhism” tradition, as it was pejoratively called, into a more accessible and socially active religion with greater lay participation and a visible presence in the cities. Ambitious and meticulously researched, From the Mountains to the Cities will find a ready audience among researchers and scholars of Korean history and religion, modern Buddhist reform movements in Asia, and those interested in religious missions and proselytization more generally.
Author | : Ben Anderson |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137540001 |
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This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.
Author | : Eça de Queirós |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Portugal |
ISBN | : 9780835794800 |
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Author | : David Kilcullen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190230967 |
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A leading expert on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism offers a comprehensive theory of "competitive control" that will apply to the future of conflict in a world of explosive population growth, increased urbanization, the movement of population centers to the coasts, and global connective networks.
Author | : David Stradling |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295989890 |
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For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Author | : Casey Schreiner |
Publisher | : Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1680510096 |
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Nature is just around the corner in the City of Angels
Author | : Connilyn Cossette |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1493418750 |
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Recently widowed, Rivkah refuses to submit to the Torah law compelling her to marry her husband's brother and instead flees Kedesh, hoping to use her talents as a scribe to support herself. Without the protections of her father, Kedesh's head priest, and the safety of the city of refuge, Rivkah soon discovers that the cost of recklessness is her own freedom. Malakhi has secretly loved Rivkah for years, but he never imagined his older brother's death would mean wedding her himself. After her disappearance, he throws himself into the ongoing fight against the Canaanites instead of dwelling on all he has lost. But with impending war looming over Israel, Rivkah's father comes to Malakhi with an impossible request. As the enemies that Rivkah and Malakhi face from without and within Israel grow more threatening each day, is it too late for the restoration their wounded souls seek?
Author | : Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Walt Larimore |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0310266335 |
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Even more tales of a small-town doctor in the smoky mountains.
Author | : Walt Larimore |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005-09-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0310256720 |
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Drawing from real-life experiences, this book continues the up-close-and-personal look at one man's transformation into a compassionate family doctor.