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Author : Kōsuke Koyama
Release : 1985
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai by : Kōsuke Koyama
Download or read book Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai written by Kōsuke Koyama. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kosuke Koyama
Release : 1985-01-01
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Book Synopsis Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai by : Kosuke Koyama
Download or read book Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai written by Kosuke Koyama. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kosuke Koyama
Release : 1984
Genre : Christianity
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Book Synopsis Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai by : Kosuke Koyama
Download or read book Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai written by Kosuke Koyama. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Warehime
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis To Be One of Us by : Nancy Warehime
Download or read book To Be One of Us written by Nancy Warehime. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the growing debate over the relationship between humanities education and the future of liberal democracy, To Be One of Us surveys in dialectical fashion several contemporary humanist thinkers, and analyzes their diverse philosophical positions in relation to John Dewey's claim that "creative democracy" is the "task before us." The cultural roots of these diverse positions are compared on the basis of their normative conceptions of moral authority. The first section of the text contains analyses of Allan Bloom's conservative platonism, and of several critiques of his discourse of crisis. The second section is an exploration of Rorty's liberal pragmatism and its implications for education and democracy, and of the critique of Rorty which emanates from his political left. Finally, West's "prophetic pragmatism" is examined, and presented as the philosophical position best suited to "creative democracy," given prevailing social, economic, and political realities.
Author : H. Byron Earhart
Release : 2015-07-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Mount Fuji by : H. Byron Earhart
Download or read book Mount Fuji written by H. Byron Earhart. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.
