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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 February 1989
... Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview . By Nishi Kitaro . Translated by David A. Dilworth . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . 140 pp. $18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 177 Intuition and Reflection in Self...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 569–571.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Richard A. O'Connor Who Can Compete Against the World?: Power-Protection and Buddhism in Shan Worldview . By Nicola Tannenbaum . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies (Monograph and Occasional Papers Series, No. 51) , 1995 . ix, 228 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 946–947.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Thomas B. Gold Searching for Life's Meaning: Changes and Tensions in the Worldviews of Chinese Youth in the 1980s . By Luo Xu . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2002 . xi, 359 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 946...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 490–511.
Published: 01 August 1989
... invite other modern-minded readers to turn our worldview upside down and look at Chinese society over the long term from the perspective of its official ideology and not from the perspective of a universalized modern worldview in which economic relations are privileged above all others. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 929–933.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., for anthropologists it is often an escape hatch from the problematic notion of “cultures,” and for historians it is an organizational scheme that has stealthily metamorphosed into an unconsidered worldview. While some disciplines, especially sociology, have invested more effort than others in critically examining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1009–1034.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of new terms allowed the scientific worldview to take root among professionals and the public. Anatomical researchers addressed both microscopic pathology to cure individuals and macroscopic questions that grouped individuals into a population to be managed, or that sought data to tell new narratives...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 159–167.
Published: 01 November 1974
.... A generation ago no Asian studies scholar would have supported the claim that the massive Indian epic Mahābhārata and the Iranian epic Shāhnāmeh have preserved significant structures of the Indo-European mythological worldview that went unreflected in the vedic and avestan texts, any more than a reputable...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 97–127.
Published: 01 February 2007
... their transition resembles much more of a “muddling through” than a linear progression, as they struggle to interpret democratic values in the context of their own worldview and political circumstances. The Tibetan exiles' case can be interpreted as a new variation on the Asian democracy debate, with a focus...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 1988
..., of worship and religious practice, of sectarian organization, and of the religious mind-set of the group. Her exposition of Kurozumikyo "counseling" reveals how the sect's worldview is translated into concrete behavior, how adherents are initiated into this worldview, and how women ministers (who perform...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 656–657.
Published: 01 August 1992
...: Perceptions and Interpretations of World History in the People's Republic of China. By D O R O T H E A A. L. M A R T I N . Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xii, 138 pp. $42.50. The subject of this slim book, the formation of the worldview of the People's Republic of China as it can be discerned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 142–144.
Published: 01 February 1988
... identifies four patterns of action or affect that derive from this worldview: (1) the conviction that other people mirror how well one perfects oneself; (2) a sense of indebtedness and gratitude; (3) a quest for sincerity; and (4) a life of selfcultivation. This worldview is manifested in the new religions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 571–572.
Published: 01 May 1997
... is a worldview? Left undefined here, the concept functions as a synecdoche for Shan culture. Is any worldview or religion or culture as simple and consistent as power-protection? Are there no contradictions or does this interpretive method just create coherence? When major theorists see religion as a struggle...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 657–658.
Published: 01 August 1992
... The three case studies examine how each of the selected issues from the world histories were affected by the rapid changes in the regime's political policy; from this a Sino-Marxist worldview is deduced. However, this case study method only confirms the official conception of what the worldview should...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 August 1992
... and Interpretations of World History in the People's Republic of China. By D O R O T H E A A. L. M A R T I N . Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xii, 138 pp. $42.50. The subject of this slim book, the formation of the worldview of the People's Republic of China as it can be discerned in thought and writing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 619–621.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the gods all clearly bring the shamanic worldview into the twenty-first century. One can only wonder in what directions shamanism will move in the future. The bond between shamanism and capitalism (or consumerism) is made very clear in the second half of the volume. It is notable that the spirits have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 807–809.
Published: 01 August 2021
... different from their parents. A product of this generation gap, as well as a driver of it, the Self-Reliant Literary Group produced avant-garde literature and projects that challenged—and even mocked—their parents’ worldviews. As the “taste makers” of their generation, members of the group eschewed a purely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1015–1017.
Published: 01 November 1993
... of the ancient city of Nara except for the small neighborhood once known as the Outer Capital: an area outside the original city boundaries immediately adjacent to precincts of the Kasuga Shrine and of the Todaiji and Kofukuji. Even less remains of the religious worldview over which these institutions once...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 557–559.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on Koryŏ materials is something peculiar to the Koryŏ period, or represents a more universal pattern of Korea's religious and ideological history. In a separate chapter devoted to the origins of Koryŏ's pluralistic worldview (pp. 289–317), Breuker names plural narratives of descent (in cases of the royal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 140–141.
Published: 01 February 1988
... churches during the early 1980s. She presents a graphic image of the typical Kurozumikyo minister and adherent, of worship and religious practice, of sectarian organization, and of the religious mind-set of the group. Her exposition of Kurozumikyo "counseling" reveals how the sect's worldview is translated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 98–99.
Published: 01 February 1990
...-reflection, and in analysis and criticism of some deeply held Western premises and assumptions. Although the chapters are grouped into four worldviews (the Chinese, the Japanese, the Buddhist, and the Indian), contributions on Taoism and Buddhism predominate. Their content and approach vary greatly...