PDF Dark Symbols; Obscure Signs: God; Self; and Community in the Slave Mind (The Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner Studies in North American Black Religion; Vo) by Riggins R.; Jr. Earl in History

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This volume brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars of Chinese and Indian civilization from Europe; North America and Asia. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Indian and Chinese religion and culture and offer fresh insights into the study of the Asian traditions. The essays in this volume together address both a specialist audience in presenting the latest findings of scholarly research and a general audience in offering the study of the past as a model for understanding developments in Asia today. The topics covered include a discussion of the role of women in Chinese religion; attitudes towards language and translation in Indian Buddhism; early Taoist thought; issues in Buddhist epistemology; miracly working images in medieval China; the history of Ch'an Buddhism; the process through which Buddhism was introduced to China; and art criticism in classical China.