Philip C. Almond

Buddha (eBook, PDF)

Life and Afterlife Between East and West

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009346818
• Artikelnr.: 70912981

Autorenporträt

Philip C. Almond is Emeritus Professor in Religious Thought at the University of Queensland and a renowned specialist in the nexus between religion and the history of ideas. His recent publications include Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Antichrist: A New Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2020), God: A New Biography (I.B. Tauris, 2018); Afterlife: A History of Life after Death (I.B. Tauris, 2016), and The Devil: A New Biography (I.B. Tauris, 2014). His earlier, pioneering book The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge University Press, 1988) has gained a reputation as a landmark study in comparative religion and intellectual history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Stories of the Buddha
2. The Quest for Enlightenment
3. The Buddha, the Greeks, and the Naked Philosophers
4. Mongols, Missionaries, and the Chief of the Idols
5. Saint Josaphat, the Buddha of Christendom
6. Imagining the Buddha
7. The Quest for the Historical Buddha
8. A Buddha for the West
Epilogue: 'Naturalised Buddhism'.