Religious Studies: A Global View

Another major institution is Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, which publishes the Japanese Journal of Religious Studie ...

nine Buddhist and seventy-seven Christian four-year colleges, according to my survey.^27 The same holds true with schools. Aroun ...

designated as such. The two explicitly designated ‘Shintÿcolleges’, Kokugakuin and Kÿgakukan, were exceptional, because they off ...

In spite of such growing internationalization, it is also true that foreign scholars who become famous in Japan are usually thos ...

science even among traditional humanistic disciplines. The study of bioethics is one example within the field of religious studi ...

traditions within Buddhist studies can also be called premodern comparative religion, which can be described as either an inclus ...

18 The first lecture titled ‘Religious Studies (shkyÿgaku)’ was offered by a Buddhist philosopher EnryÿInoue (1858–1919) at a p ...

Anesaki, Masaharu (1930) 1995, History of Japanese Religion: With Special Reference to the Social and Moral Life of the Nation, ...

Ueda, Shizuteru 1965, Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zur Gottheit, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus G. Mohn. ...

Isomae, Jun’ichi 2002, ‘The discursive position of religious studies in Japan: Masaharu Anesaki and the origins of religious stu ...

Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Majella Franzmann Prehistory of the study of religions 219 The emergence of the s ...

Prehistory of the study of religions T HE PREHISTORY OF STUDIES INreligion in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands be ...

concerning their religious customs and activities. Of necessity, they needed to decide what to speak of and what to keep secret, ...

(1873), Auckland (1883), and Wellington (1899), sectarian tensions meant that they were secular institutions that did not includ ...

although it was not until 1981 that the biblical scholar Francis Andersen was appointed as the first Chair. The Board of Divinit ...

The development of the study of religions Major ideas and problems As the programs in studies in religion developed, the need to ...

Chinese and Indian religions, African religion, and the indigenous religions of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. ...

religion and technology, machines computers and people, time, on becoming human, sacrifice in a secular world, images of the cit ...

Victoria University is typical of the early development in the 1970s. It introduced a stage one course on world religions in 197 ...

title appears to be an outdated version of what should be read as courses in history, gender and philosophy (www.upng.ac.pg/ acc ...