Author: Walter Raleigh HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Walter Raleigh HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Walter Raleigh HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Neely's History of The Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Walter Raleigh HoughtonPublisher: Chicago : F. T. Neely
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: Walter R. HoughtonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259308027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Excerpt from Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition: Compiled From Original Manuscripts and Stenographic Reports The snows of winter will soon wrap the beautiful White City in an unbroken silence. It has been for two years the home of all the arts, its forums thronged with the devotees of every science. Though change and the needs of the busy Garden City may scatter to the four winds these deserted altars where a world has worshiped the Great Architect, an imperishable record will remain! While countless thousands, taking up again the threads of daily life, or journeying forth to the uttermost ends of the earth, may, in the heart, memory, and delighted mind's eye, preserve for years the visions of the fairyland of our century, were it not for the genius of Literature all would in time be lost! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Neely's History of the Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition
Author: A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893
Author: Rossiter JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Author: Michael J. AltmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190654945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu, Michael J. Altman argues that this is not a mere sematic distinction-a case of more politically correct terminology being accepted over time-but a way that Americans worked out their own identities. American representations of India said more about Americans than about Hindus. Cotton Mather, Hannah Adams, and Joseph Priestley engaged the larger European Enlightenment project of classifying and comparing religion in India. Evangelical missionaries used images of "Hindoo heathenism" to raise support at home. Unitarian Protestants found a kindred spirit in the writings of Bengali reformer Rammohun Roy. Popular magazines and common school books used the image of dark, heathen, despotic India to buttress Protestant, white, democratic American identity. Transcendentalists and Theosophists imagined the contemplative and esoteric religion of India as an alternative to materialist American Protestantism. Hindu delegates and American speakers at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions engaged in a protracted debate about the definition of religion in industrializing America. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu is a groundbreaking analysis of American representations of religion in India before the turn of the twentieth century. Altman reorients American religious history and the history of Asian religions in America, showing how Americans of all sorts imagined India for their own purposes. The questions that animated descriptions of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus in the past, he argues, still animate American debates today.
The World Parliament of Religions 1893
Author: Lakshmi Nivas JhunjhunwalaPublisher: Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN: 8175059060
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, gives the reader an overview of the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. Also presented here are some of the speeches of the delegates which reflect the myriad rays of human thought emanating from the different religions of the world. Needless to say, special stress has been laid on Swami Vivekananda’s participation in the Parliament and his stupendous success which paved the way for a greater harmony between followers of all the religions of the world.
Mormons and Popular Culture
Author: J. Michael HunterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313391688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Many people are unaware of how influential Mormons have been on American popular culture. This book parts the curtain and looks behind the scenes at the little-known but important influence Mormons have had on popular culture in the United States and beyond. Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon provides an unprecedented, comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture. Authored by a Mormon studies librarian and author of numerous writings regarding Mormon folklore, culture, and history, this book provides students, scholars, and interested readers with an introduction and wide-ranging overview of the topic that can serve as a key reference book on the topic. The work contains fascinating coverage on the most influential Mormon actors, musicians, fashion designers, writers, artists, media personalities, and athletes. Some topics—such as the Mormon influence at Disney, and how Mormon inventors have assisted in transforming American popular culture through the inventions of television, stereophonic sound, video games, and computer-generated animation—represent largely unknown information. The broad overview of Mormons and American popular culture offered can be used as a launching pad for further investigation; researchers will find the references within the book's well-documented chapters helpful.
Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West
Author: Judith SnodgrassPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854587
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Japanese Buddhism was introduced to the West during the World's Parliament of Religions, in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. In describing and analysing this event, this text challenges the view of Orientalism as a one-way process by which Asian cultures are understood through Western ideas.