Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2021
This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world.…
The routledge companion to global indigenous history
Author/editor: McGrath, Ann
Year published: 2021
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics…
The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2021
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the…
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea: The Emergence, Transformation and Transmission of a New Religion
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2020
East Asian nations shared a similar environment of modernisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. None had been colonised under Western imperialism, but all of them commonly became subjected to new authorities, whether directly or indirectly. This change of the political landscape…
How the Personal Became Political: The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia
Author/editor: Arrow, M & Woollacott, A
Year published: 2020
How the Personal became Political brings together new research on the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. It addresses the political and theoretical significance of these movements, asking how and why matters previously considered private and personal, become public and…
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography
Author/editor: Rademaker, Laura & Rowse, Timothy
Year published: 2020
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and 'assimilation'. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a new policy era: 'self-determination'. Yet, the defining features…
New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History: Socio-Cultural Alternatives
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2020
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from local religious groups or individuals. The contributors argue that when traditional religions were powerless to maintain their cultural heritage, the…