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Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras 佛的言语行为:主权仪式与权力诗学，Mahāyāna Sūtras

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1086/716427

Natalie Gummer

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The Long Arm of the Law: The Generative Power of Metatextuality in Mahāyāna Sūtras 法律的长臂:Mahāyāna Sūtras中元性的生成力

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1086/716453

Adam T. Miller

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The Problem of Becoming a Bodhisattva and the Emergence of Mahāyāna 成佛问题与Mahāyāna的出现

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1086/716425

David Drewes

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Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India. Elaine M. Fisher. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. xii+285. $34.95 (paper).

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1086/716424

Caleb Simmons

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Medieval Anticlericalism: Terms and Conditions 中世纪反教权主义:条款和条件

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/714917

R. Swanson

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Late Imperial Chinese Anticlericalism and the Division of Ritual Labor 晚清中国的反教权主义与礼教分工

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/714966

Vincent Goossaert

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The Rule and the Folk: The Emergence of the Clergy/Laity Divide and the Forms of Anticlerical Discourse in China’s Late Antiquity 规则与民间:中国古代晚期神职/世俗分裂的出现与反神职话语的形式

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/714918

A. Palumbo

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The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia. By Johan Elverskog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xxii+178. $55.00 (cloth). 《佛陀的足迹:亚洲环境史》约翰·埃尔弗斯科著。费城:宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，2020。Pp.第二十二+ 178。55.00美元(布)。

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/714968

Alexander O. Hsu

引用次数: 4

Western Missionaries in Modern China: From Ministers of Foreign Teachings to Agents of Imperialism? 近代中国的西方传教士:从外国传教士到帝国主义代理人?

IF 0.5 2区哲学

HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/714964

L. Laamann

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Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+356. $97.50 (cloth); $32.50 (paper). 伪造自由:美国占领下的日本的宗教自由。乔里昂·巴拉卡·托马斯著。芝加哥:芝加哥大学出版社，2019。Pp.十四+ 356。97.50美元(布);32.50美元(纸)。