Winnipeg became the site of the XIVth Congress because of the vision of William Klassen, then Head of the Preface ix Department of Religion, and the active support of Fred Stambrook, the Dean of Arts, at the University of Manitoba. [...] The extent to which the Smith: A History of Religion in the Singular 13 Buddhist vihara - in Persian and Arabic, the place-name Bukhara - underlay the emergence of the Islamic madrasah, for instance; or Persian Mithra in particular, and Persian messianic orientations in general, underlay the emer- gence of Buddhist Maitreya, Chinese Mi-lo and the Buddha-coming-in-the-future; these are examples of [...] The developments of the various sub-sectors of this complex have been self-contained, in separate water-tight compartments, according to the theory of Smith: A History of Religion in the Singular 23 certain of those sub-sectors in the Western and Near Eastern region of the planet; yet in practice, even there, and conspicuously elsewhere, much less than the theories allowed. [...] The only ostensible reason for its introduction in the exposition of the ritual is to provide a "founding charter" to a rite that is central to the sacrifice, the invocation of the goddess Ida. [...] The text then rounds off the story with its punch-line: "This woman is the same as the Ida [that is: the deified sacrificial food] and whosoever knowing this performs the sacrifical ritual with the Ida thereby propagates, like Manu, the human race and obtains all blessings." So the main point of the flood story in the Satapathabrahmana is the deft interweaving of sacrifice and procreation in the f
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 4
- Preface 8
- Traditions in Contact and Change: Towards a History of Religion in the Singular 12
- I. Indian Traditions and Western Interaction 36
- The Flood Story in Vedic Ritual 36
- Hindu Formulas for the Facilitation of Change 50
- The Role of the Śaivagama in the Emergence of Saivasiddhanta: A Philosophical Interpretation 64
- Some Western Interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita, 1785–1885 76
- From Hindu Strīdharma to Universal Feminism: A Study of the Women of the Nehru Family 98
- Social Change and Religious Transformation among Bombay Parsis in the Early Twentieth Century 116
- Christliche Interpretamente in der Khasi-Renaissance: Zur religiösen Bedeutung einer Reformbewegung bei den Hochland-Khasi von Meghalaya 138
- II. Buddhist, Chinese and Japanese Studies 154
- Buddhism Through Hindu Eyes: Śaivas and Buddhists in Medieval Tamilnad 154
- The Problem of the Origin of the Mahayana 174
- Filial Piety and Buddhism: The Indian Antecedents to a "Chinese" Problem 182
- Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen: William James and the Rinzai and Soto Schools of Japanese Buddhism 198
- Lyrical Imagery and Religious Content in Japanese Art: The Pictorial Biography of Ippen the Holy Man 212
- Japanese Rural Communities and Shinto Shrines Since the Meiji Restoration (1868) : A Case Study in the Central Area of Mie Prefecture 242
- Symposium Canada-Chine 252
- Three Religious Ontological Claims: "Being-Itself," "Nothingness within Somethingness," and "The Field of Emptiness" 260
- III. Mediterranean Cultures 278
- Die Bedeutung der Apokryphen Salomo-Oden für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 278
- L' Importance du "Rouleau de Temple" pour 1'identification de la Communauté de Qumran 296
- Terminological Boobytraps and Real Problems in Second-Temple Judaeo-Christian Studies 306
- The Foster Child: A Neglected Theme in Early Christian Life and Thought 318
- Mani's Opposition to the Elchasaites: A Question of Ritual 334
- The Transformation of Christianity into Roman Religion 348
- Le Sopravvivenze Pagane Nel Medioevo 358
- Israel and Byzantium: A Case of Socio-Religious Acculturation 372
- The Change in Status of Women in Iceland from Pagan to Christian Times 388
- Contribution à l ' Etude de la sacralisation de l 'espace: le cas de la Paroisse Québécoise 394
- L'Axe de l 'interiorité en architecture religieuse contemporaire 420
- IV. Islamic, African and Amerindian Developments 438
- Tradition, Contact and Change in Indian Islam Exemplified in Muhammad Iqbal's Work 438
- Shades of Shī[sup(c)]cism in the Tracts of the Brethren of Purity 458
- Islam, Polity and Society in Turkey: A Middle Eastern Perspective 472
- Sacramental Food Transactions among South Asian Muslims and Hindus 492
- Otatha: Probings into Isoko Concepts of Predestiny 514
- Religions in Conflict and Change in the Works of Modern African Novelists 526
- Three Types of Religious Acculturation Among the Oglala Lakota 538
- The Struggle against Dependency: Equality as Individuals or as People 554
- V. Methodological and Theoretical Discussions 564
- Humanistic and Theological History of Religions with Special Reference to the North American Scene 564
- The Significance of the Japanese Intellectual Tradition for the History of Religions 576
- Women's Studies in Religion: The State of the Art, 1980 590
- Western Perceptions of Asia: The Romantic Vision of Max Müller 604
- Les Reins et les Coeurs: Peut-on écrire une histoire religieuse sur traces? 618
- Structure in Jung and Lévi-Strauss 632
- An Analytical Philosopher looks at Oriental Mysticism 646
- Truth and Dialogue in Religion: Some Cognitive-Developmental Speculations 660
- Endnotes and Bibliography 682
- Authors 761
- Acknowledgements 762
