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UNINA9910454016203321 |
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West Mark D |
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Secrets, sex, and spectacle [[electronic resource] ] : the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States / / Mark D. West |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
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1-281-96677-0 |
9786611966775 |
0-226-89411-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Scandals - Japan |
Law - Japan |
Scandals - United States |
Law - United States |
Electronic books. |
Japan Social life and customs |
United States Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Players -- Privacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology. |
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A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal-from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades-to |
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UNINA9910778719003321 |
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The innate capacity : mysticism, psychology, and philosophy / / edited by Robert K.C. Forman |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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0-19-773961-X |
1-280-47034-8 |
0-19-535368-4 |
0-585-27046-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Mysticism - Psychology |
Mysticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; Contributors; ONE: Introduction: Mystical Consciousness, the Innate Capacity, and the Perennial Philosophy; TWO: Discriminating the Innate Capacity: Salvation Mysticism of Classical Sāmkya-Yoga; THREE: Parables of Deconstruction in the Lotus Sutra; FOUR: Between the Yes and the No: Ibn al-'Arabī on Wujud and the Innate Capacity; FIVE: Mysticism, Mediation, and Consciousness: The Innate Capacity in John Ruusbroec; SIX: The Innate Capacity: Jung and the Mystical Imperative; SEVEN: The Swami and the Rorschach: Spiritual Practice, Religious Experience, and Perception |
EIGHT: William James and the Origins of Mystical Experience; NINE: Innate Mystical Capacities and the Nature of the Self; TEN: Postconstructivist Approaches to Mysticism |
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A sequel to Forman's collection ""The Problem of Pure Consciousness"" (OUP, 1990). The scholars in this book put forward a hypothesis about the cause of mystical, or ""pure consciousness"" experiences. They look at mystical experience as manifested in a variety of religious and cultural settings. |
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