Traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology's focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews.
Traces the history of Jews in China and explores how their theology's focus on love, rather than on the fear of a non-anthropomorphic God, may speak to contemporary liberal Jews.
Jordan Paper is a professor emeritus at York University (East Asian and Religious Studies) and a fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He studied Buddhist Chinese at and received his doctorate in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His many books on religion and Chinese philosophy include The Fu-Tzu: A Post-Han Confucian Text, The Spirits Are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion, The Chinese Way in Religion (2nd edition), and The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Approach.
Inhaltsangabe
Table of Contents for The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000-1850 by Jordan Paper Prologue Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: The Four Questions Who Are the Chinese Jews? Are the Chinese Jews Jewish? What Are the Sources for the Theology of the Chinese Jews? Is This Theology Relevant Today? Chapter 2: From Whence They Came to Where They Went The Extent of the Diaspora Jewish Life under Christianity and Islam: Tenth to Twelfth Centuries The Sea Route to China and the Settlement in Kaifeng Chapter 3: Life in China: Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries Religion Education Social Structure Government Economy Culture Chapter 4: Brief History of Buddhism and the Abrahamic Traditions in China The Buddhist Experience in China Christianity to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Christianity in China after the de Facto Demise of Judaism Islam Judaism Chapter 5: The Sinification of Judaism Veneration of Ancestors: Family, Tribal, Religious, and Cultural Education and Its Relationship to Judaism The Kaifeng Jews and Their Neighbours Chinese Judaism Chapter 6: A Speculative Theology of the Chinese Jews The Names of God: Hebrew The Kaifeng Synagogue's Stelae and Plaques The Names of God: Chinese The Nature of Creation Monotheism from a Chinese Perspective A Speculative Chinese-Jewish Theology Assimilation and Theology Historical and Cultural Context Epilogue Postscript: What Western Jews Can Learn from the Kaifeng Jews Rabbi Anson Laytner Appendix: Chinese Logographs for Terms and Translations in Chapter 6 Notes References
Table of Contents for The Theology of the Chinese Jews, 1000-1850 by Jordan Paper Prologue Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: The Four Questions Who Are the Chinese Jews? Are the Chinese Jews Jewish? What Are the Sources for the Theology of the Chinese Jews? Is This Theology Relevant Today? Chapter 2: From Whence They Came to Where They Went The Extent of the Diaspora Jewish Life under Christianity and Islam: Tenth to Twelfth Centuries The Sea Route to China and the Settlement in Kaifeng Chapter 3: Life in China: Tenth to Nineteenth Centuries Religion Education Social Structure Government Economy Culture Chapter 4: Brief History of Buddhism and the Abrahamic Traditions in China The Buddhist Experience in China Christianity to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Christianity in China after the de Facto Demise of Judaism Islam Judaism Chapter 5: The Sinification of Judaism Veneration of Ancestors: Family, Tribal, Religious, and Cultural Education and Its Relationship to Judaism The Kaifeng Jews and Their Neighbours Chinese Judaism Chapter 6: A Speculative Theology of the Chinese Jews The Names of God: Hebrew The Kaifeng Synagogue's Stelae and Plaques The Names of God: Chinese The Nature of Creation Monotheism from a Chinese Perspective A Speculative Chinese-Jewish Theology Assimilation and Theology Historical and Cultural Context Epilogue Postscript: What Western Jews Can Learn from the Kaifeng Jews Rabbi Anson Laytner Appendix: Chinese Logographs for Terms and Translations in Chapter 6 Notes References
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
