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The Genealogy, Ideology, And Future Of Isil And Its Derivatives, Ahmed E. Souaiaia

Ahmed E SOUAIAIA

Une Amérique Française, 1760-1860: Dynamiques Du Corridor Créole, Guillaume Teasdale, Tangi Villerbu

Guillaume Teasdale

New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson

Rosita Dellios

As China embarks on its One Belt, One Road Initiative it is recreating not only the economic Silk Road of the past but incorporating a Buddhist-based regionalism that stretched from Eurasia to maritime kingdoms in the southern seas. It was a mandalic world of trade and a dharma of easy communication between cultures and religions. After outlining China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative, this paper provides the historical setting of silk road regionalism with its Buddhist contribution, and then moves to the possibility of a new silk road mandala. The paper concludes with a Buddhist geopolitics of peace. Here Buddhism’s …

New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson

R. James Ferguson

As China embarks on its One Belt, One Road Initiative it is recreating not only the economic Silk Road of the past but incorporating a Buddhist-based regionalism that stretched from Eurasia to maritime kingdoms in the southern seas. It was a mandalic world of trade and a dharma of easy communication between cultures and religions. After outlining China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative, this paper provides the historical setting of silk road regionalism with its Buddhist contribution, and then moves to the possibility of a new silk road mandala. The paper concludes with a Buddhist geopolitics of peace. Here Buddhism’s …

Barcelona And Madrid, Joseph Holub

Joseph C Holub

Suggested readings for the Penn Alumni travel trip to Barcelona and Madrid. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here.

Human Trafficking And Film: How Popular Portrayals Influence Law And Public Perception, Jonathan Todres

Jonathan Todres

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Manual Of Arms, Kate Walker

Kate Walker

“Manual of Arms” is a video project of a choreographed performance where 16 women perform a series of moves based on drill routines. Questions are raised in the work about the roles and relationships between sports, gender and guns in this culture. The project involved weeks of rehearsal, culminating in a videoed performance involving students and faculty from the Department of Art.

Book Of Paper, Book Of Stone: An Exploration Of Alice Oswald's Memorial, Carolin Hahnemann

Carolin Hahnemann

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Review: The Book Of Change Trans John Minford, Joseph A. Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Wm. Theodore De Bary. The Trouble With Confucianism, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: I Ching: An Annotated Bibliography, By Edward Hacker, Steve Moore, And Lorraine Patsco, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Descriptive And Normative Principle (Li) In Confucian Moral Metaphysics: Is/Ought From The Chinese Perspective, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Divination And Sacrifice In Song Neo-Confucianism, Joseph A. Adler

Joseph Adler

The earliest known form of Chinese religion is the ritual dyad of divination and sacrifice practiced by the rulers of the Shang Dynasty (fourteenth to eleventh centuries b.c.e.). This chapter explores how teachers can highlight the continuity of the Confucian tradition with this central core of Chinese religiosity. Sacrificial offerings to ancestors and sages, on the one hand, and divination using the Yijing (Scripture of Change), on the other, have been the major forms of these rituals practiced by Confucians. Introducing the theories and practices of Yijing divination of some of the leading Confucians of the Song Dynasty (960–1279 c.e.)—scholars …

Review: Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia Of Confucianism, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Irene Bloom And Joshua A. Fogel, Eds., Meeting Of Minds: Intellectual And Religious Interaction In East Asian Traditions Of Thought, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Images Of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait By Donaldj. Munro., Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Paul R. Goldin. Confucianism. Ancient Philosophies, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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The Great Virtue Of Heaven And Earth 天地之大德:" Deep Ecology In The Yijing 易經, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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The Confucian Body, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Robin R. Wang's Yinyang: The Way Of Heaven And Earth In Chinese Thought And Culture, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Confucius And Confucianism: The Essentials Lee Dian Rainey, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Review: Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Confucian Discourse And Chu Hsi's Ascendancy, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Chinese Metaphysics And Its Problems, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Yong Huang, Confucius: A Guide For The Perplexed, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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"Bite On Boldly": Staging Medieval And Early Modern Heretics, Cameron Hunt Mcnabb

Cameron Hunt McNabb

My dissertation explores the parodic Biblical language employed by medieval and early modern staged heretics. The plays' coupling of parody and heresy forges ideological connections between the two, as when they disrupt authorized, orthodox models of the Word, as both the Scriptures and the Host. My Introduction addresses the theological controversies over the relationship between language and meaning that arise from Lollard, Catholic, and Protestant heresies. Chapter two analyzes how, in the Chester cycle, Antichrist's theological and verbal dissents are eerily similar to orthodox models. That framework forces the audience to depend on the context of the heretic's words and …

Hocus Pocus And The Croxton Play Of The Sacrament, Cameron Mcnabb

Cameron Hunt McNabb

This article addresses how heresy and parody intersect in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament through its religiously and verbally dissenting characters. The play’s highly theatrical depiction of a host miracle both enforces and undermines its emphatic endorsement of the real presence. The play ameliorates this tension by the privileging of words over deeds, aligning the transformative power of the consecratory words with the transformative power of believers’ confessions at conversion wherein both words and actions enact a transubstantiation, thus manifesting the real presence of Christ. The play’s language becomes a moral marker and the vehicle for the heretics’ dissent …

Enlightening The Bats: Sound And Place Making In Burmese Buddhist Practice, Andrew Dicks

Andrew Dicks

In Burma (Myanmar), the Abhidhamma, a rigorous and abstract soteriological treatise situated within the vast Pali Buddhist canon, is the focus of both monastic and lay practitioners’ close study and popular veneration. In particular, the Paṭṭhāna, the last and most complex volume of the Abhidhamma, is envisioned as a keystone in the long-term preservation of the Buddha’s teachings, which are also understood to inevitably disappear. As a result of these conditions and understandings, a popular ritualized and amplified recitation of this difficult text has developed in order to maintain the text’s presence in popular consciousness. This is a conscientious move …

To Live Like Fighting Cocks: 'Fight Club' And The Ethics Of Masculinity, Andrew Slade

Andrew R. Slade

David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club has prompted many academics to write about this film and has captivated many of their students. As Warren Rosenberg, chair of English at the all-male Wabash College has said, "This seems to be a movie that they all adore so we'll see if we can deconstruct it, and hopefully get them to like it less" (Students, A10). While we may take this flippant comment from a 2001 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education as just that and dismiss it as quickly as it passes, Rosenberg's sentiment reflects a widespread …

Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade

Andrew R. Slade

If Jean-Luc Nancy was able to write in "The Sublime Offering," in 1993, that the sublime was fashionable (25), then academic and theoretical tastes have changed, and beauty has come back in style. Throughout the late 1990s, cultural critics and theorists undertook a return to beauty against the fashion for the sublime that returned in twentieth-century theory and philosophy of art in works by Jean-François Lyotard and Theodor Adorno, among others. The interest in the sublime has been grounded in violent historical experience. Not that violence was new, or that the kinds of violence that the twentieth century bequeathed us …

Remake As Erasure In 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', Andrew Slade

Andrew R. Slade

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) was remade as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) by Marcus Nispel. The remake erases the progressive critique of gender and family life in the United States that Hooper’s film screened and replaces that critique with a reactionary vision of sex, gender and family in the United States of the early twenty-first century.