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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Asian religions"”.
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
… role of religion, few scholars have focused on Asian religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. My dissertation explores the varied strategies by which American writers inscribe Asian religions in their fiction. I argue that Asian religions have been crucial in post-1945 American literature's …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… psychotherapy, nineteenth-century biology, and Asian religions filtered through a Western lens—all informed by reference to the great chain of being metaphor. Though esotericized evolution owes something to each of these elements, it cannot be reduced to any of them, which is why it persists as …
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Rice Paddy to Wheatfield: Caodaism in America's Heartland
… of the belief systems of many of the world's religions. Created in 1926 in Vietnam, Caodaism grew to become the third largest religion in Vietnam in only a few decades. Today, there are some three million practicing Caodaists in the world, many who have been spread across the globe as result …