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  title info:
    title: Asian Religions
    sub title: A Cultural Perspective
  name:
    name part: Nadeau, Randall L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Newark
    publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (279 p.).
  table of contents: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Part I: Introductory Material -- 1: Religion -- "Religion" and the Religions -- 2: Language -- Part II: The Confucian Tradition -- 3: Defining "Religion" -- The Confucian Response -- Confucian Cultures in East Asia -- The Confucian Program -- 4: The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism -- 5: The Self as a Center of Relationships -- Lasting Relationships -- The five relationships are hierarchical from top to bottom -- The five relationships are hierarchical from left to right -- 6: Learning to Be Human
  table of contents: Persistence of Filial Piety as an Abiding Cultural Value, though under Threat from New Family Models, Declining Marriage and Birth Rates, and Economic Changes -- Self-Sacrifice for the Benefit of Others and the Rejection of Western Individualism, Privacy, and Self-Interest: An Ethic of Conformity -- Public Support for the Arts and Civil Religion -- Hospitality, Social Grace, Emphasis on Social Identity -- Confucian Fundamentalism and the "National Studies Craze" -- Part III: The Taoist Tradition -- 8: What Is Taoism? -- Philosophical Taoism -- Yin-Yang Cosmology -- 9: Philosophical Taoism
  table of contents: Taoist Long Life and Immortality -- Survey 2 Principles of Philosophical and Religious Taoism -- 13: Taoism as a Global Religious Phenomenon -- Taoism as a World Religion -- Part IV: The Hindu Tradition -- 14: What Is Hinduism? -- The Three Margas -- The Bhagavad Gita -- The Three Margas as Religious Discipline (Yoga) -- 15: Karma-marga -- Action and Its Consequences -- Varna-āśrama-dharma -- Karma-marga -- 16: Jñāna-marga -- The puruārthas -- Moksha as Unity with Brahman -- 17: Bhakti-marga -- Krishna: Knowing Brahman in Human Form -- Shiva: Knowing Brahman through Mystical Union
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Survey 3 Religious Attitudes Based on Hindu Worldviews
  subject:
    topic: Religions
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    geographic: Asie
    topic: Religion
  classification: BL1033 .N33 2014
  classification: 200.95
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Asian Religions
    name:
      name part: Nadeau, Randall L.
    origin info:
      publisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2014
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New York Academy of Sciences Ser
  identifier: 9781118471937
  identifier: 1118471938
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 230209
    record change date: 20260513170413.3
    record identifier: in00005781718
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng