Now in its Second Edition; Introducing Japanese Religion is the ideal resource for undergraduate students. This edition features new material on folk and popular religion; including shamanism; festivals; and practices surrounding death and funerals. Robert Ellwood also updates the text to discuss recent events; such as religious responses to the Fukushima disaster. Introducing Japanese Religion includes illustrations; lively quotations from original sources; learning goals; summary boxes; questions for discussion; suggestions for further reading; and a glossary to aid study and revision. The accompanying website for this book is available at www.routledge.com/cw/ellwood.
#762144 in Books Walter L Hixson 2013-12-05 2013-12-05Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.17 x .29 x 6.15l; .85 #File Name: 113737425X253 pagesAmerican Settler Colonialism A History
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. useful text bookBy CustomerBought for class very good read and helpful with my studies.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy billWell written; but depressing. Did not point out how nearly all the Protestant denominations ignored the genocide.5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. In this wonderful book; Walter Hixson offers an interdisciplinary reframing of ...By Allan BranstiterIn this wonderful book; Walter Hixson offers an interdisciplinary reframing of American history that considers not only the perspective of European settlers; but the Native people inhabiting the North American continent. Hixson argues that the history of the United States has always been one defined by a settler colonial project. Drawn from postcolonial; ethnohistorical; and anthropological theory; the notion of settler colonialism refers to what the author calls "a history in which settlers drove indigenous populations from the land in order to construct their own ethnic and religious national communities;" rather than the model of metropole or classical colonialism often associated with European incursions in Africa. To Hixson; one cannot understand the history of the United States with viewing its defining moments as part of an ever evolving settler colonial project. For example; he views the Civil War as a crisis between two models of settler colonialism: one built upon the enslavement of African-Americans; and the other based upon widespread white landholding and free labor. What emerges after the Civil War isn't Lincoln's "new birth of freedom;" but the victory of a northern-style settler colonialism and the wholesale continuation of warfare against Native Americans.Hixson's book is well-structured and argued. It is a work of scholarly academic history that may at times be inaccessible to the general reading public—at times the reader is left to wade through a list of names; dates; and battles. This book's best fit is in the hands of a graduate or advanced undergraduate student. Casual readers; or those relatively new to postcolonial theory; might want to start elsewhere (I'd check out Ari Kelman's "Misplaced Massacre;" S. C. Gwynne's "Empire of the Summer Moon;" or Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."