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Religious Naturalisms, Carol W. White Jan 2021

Religious Naturalisms, Carol W. White

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This article focuses on recent developments in religious naturalism in the twenty-first century, building on Jerome Stone’s 2008 study of its resurgence in the mid-twentieth century. I introduce religious naturalism as a synthesis of naturalistic ideas that often depart from traditional forms of religious thinking, defining it as a capacious, ecological religious worldview grounded in the observational conviction that nature is ultimate. I also describe different models of religious naturalism, focusing on the key ideas found in the influential publications of contemporary religious naturalists (e.g., Ursula Goodenough, Donald Crosby, Loyal Rue, among others). While acknowledging specific points of emphasis, I …


Which Politics Of Nature?: A Response To Crawford, Carol W. White Dec 2020

Which Politics Of Nature?: A Response To Crawford, Carol W. White

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No abstract provided.


Religious Naturalism, Myriad Nature, And Justice: A Reply To Kahn And Keller, Carol W. White Nov 2020

Religious Naturalism, Myriad Nature, And Justice: A Reply To Kahn And Keller, Carol W. White

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No abstract provided.


Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination, James Shields Mar 2019

Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination, James Shields

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No abstract provided.


Essay: “My Life In Buddhist Studies", James Shields Jan 2019

Essay: “My Life In Buddhist Studies", James Shields

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No abstract provided.


Commentary On Against Harmony, James Shields May 2017

Commentary On Against Harmony, James Shields

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No abstract provided.


Review: Ōtani Ei'ichi, Kindai Bukkyō To Iu Shiza: Sensō, Ajia, Shakaishugi (The Perspective Of Modern Buddhism: War, Asia, Socialism) (Perikansha, 2012)., James Shields Jun 2015

Review: Ōtani Ei'ichi, Kindai Bukkyō To Iu Shiza: Sensō, Ajia, Shakaishugi (The Perspective Of Modern Buddhism: War, Asia, Socialism) (Perikansha, 2012)., James Shields

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No abstract provided.


Essay: "“Never The ‘Twain Shall Meet: Disorienting East And West In Teaching And Scholarship.", James Shields Jun 2015

Essay: "“Never The ‘Twain Shall Meet: Disorienting East And West In Teaching And Scholarship.", James Shields

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No abstract provided.


Review: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, Empire Of The Dharma: Korean And Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912., James Shields Jun 2015

Review: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, Empire Of The Dharma: Korean And Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912., James Shields

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Essay: “Category Formation And ‘Eastern Traditions’”, James Shields Jun 2014

Essay: “Category Formation And ‘Eastern Traditions’”, James Shields

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Essay: “Category Formation and ‘Eastern Traditions’”


Review: Barbara R. Ambros, Bones Of Contention: Animals And Religion In Contemporary Japan (Hawai'i, 2012)., James Shields Mar 2013

Review: Barbara R. Ambros, Bones Of Contention: Animals And Religion In Contemporary Japan (Hawai'i, 2012)., James Shields

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Review: Barbara R. Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan (Hawai'i, 2012).


Review: Steven Heine, Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale Of Religious Sites In Two Tokyo Neighborhoods (Oxford, 2011)., James Shields Jan 2013

Review: Steven Heine, Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale Of Religious Sites In Two Tokyo Neighborhoods (Oxford, 2011)., James Shields

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Review of Steven Heine, Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods (Oxford, 2011).


Review: Hank Glassman, The Face Of Jizō: Image And Cult In Medieval Japanese Buddhism., James Shields Aug 2012

Review: Hank Glassman, The Face Of Jizō: Image And Cult In Medieval Japanese Buddhism., James Shields

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Review of Hank Glassman, The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.


Review: Christopher Ives, Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’S Critique And Lingering Questions For Buddhist Ethics (Uhp, 2009), James Shields Apr 2012

Review: Christopher Ives, Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’S Critique And Lingering Questions For Buddhist Ethics (Uhp, 2009), James Shields

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Review of Christopher Ives, Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics (UHP, 2009)


Review In Studies In Medieval And Renaissance Teaching Of "Ents, Elves And Eriador: The Environmental Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien", Paul Siewers Jan 2010

Review In Studies In Medieval And Renaissance Teaching Of "Ents, Elves And Eriador: The Environmental Vision Of J.R.R. Tolkien", Paul Siewers

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A review of a book-length ecocritical study of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy writing.


Review: Robert Carter, Encounter With Enlightenment: A Study Of Japanese Ethics (Suny, 2001), James Shields Apr 2002

Review: Robert Carter, Encounter With Enlightenment: A Study Of Japanese Ethics (Suny, 2001), James Shields

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Review of book: Robert E. Carter, Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics (SUNY Press, 2001)


Commentary: Blowing Up The Buddhas By The Taliban, James Shields Nov 2001

Commentary: Blowing Up The Buddhas By The Taliban, James Shields

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Commentary on "Blowing-up of the [Bamiyan] Buddhas by the Taliban"


Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People Of The Book: Christian Identity And Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996), James Shields May 1997

Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People Of The Book: Christian Identity And Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996), James Shields

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Book Review: David Lyle Jeffrey, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture (Eerdman's, 1996)


Review: Carl Braaten And Robert Jenson (Eds), Either/Or: The Gospel Or Neopaganism (Eerdman's, 1995), James Shields May 1996

Review: Carl Braaten And Robert Jenson (Eds), Either/Or: The Gospel Or Neopaganism (Eerdman's, 1995), James Shields

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Revew of book: Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson (eds), Either/Or: The Gospel or Neopaganism (William B. Eerdman's, 1996)


Review: Colin Manlove, Christian Fantasy: From 1200 To The Present (Und Press, 1992), James Shields May 1996

Review: Colin Manlove, Christian Fantasy: From 1200 To The Present (Und Press, 1992), James Shields

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Review of the book: Colin Manlove, Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present (University. of Notre Dame Press, 1992)


Review: Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust The Theologian (Yale Up, 1995), James Shields May 1996

Review: Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust The Theologian (Yale Up, 1995), James Shields

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Review of Jaroslav Pelikan, Faust the Theologian (Yale UP, 1995)