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The Iconoclasm of Obeisance: Protestant Images of Chinese Religion and the Catholic Church |
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Reinders, Eric
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Numen: International Review for the History of Religions
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| Volume | v.44 n.3 |
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| Date | 1997.09 |
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| Pages | 296 - 322 |
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| Publisher | Brill |
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http://www.brill.com/
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| Location | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 禮佛=Bow to Buddhs; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 佛教儀軌=Buddhist Rituals |
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| Abstract | Western studies of Buddhism emphasize doctrine and meditation，but almost completely ignore devotional practice. Yet，obeisance to Buddha is the primary religious practice of the majority of Asian Buddhists. To account for this disparity，I explore the history of Protestant attitudes towards bowing. In English and German anti-Catholic polemics (and Catholic responses)，Chinese and Catholic obeisance are conflated，the lowness of their prostrations emphasized in contrast to the erectness of Protestant posture in worship. I survey two important encyclopedias of religion (Hastings' of 1914 and Eliade's of 1987)，and the work of one of the founders of sociology，Herbert Spencer，to show the persistance of these perspectives on obeisance. Finally I suggest possible extensions of the theoretical concerns of this paper. |
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| ISSN | 00295973 (P); 15685276 (E) |
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| Hits | 253 |
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| Created date | 2000.11
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| Modified date | 2019.12.02 |
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