1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000014699

Titolo

The geometry of metric and linear spaces : proceedings of a conference held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, June 17-19, 1974 / edited by L. M. Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.] : Springer, 1975

ISBN

3-540-07417-1

Descrizione fisica

X , 244 p. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; 490

Disciplina

515.73

Soggetti

Spazi vettoriali topologici - Congressi

Geometria - Congressi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465446703321

Autore

Dessì Ugo.

Titolo

Japanese religions and globalization / / Ugo Dessì

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-06661-8

1-299-28048-X

1-135-07576-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; ; 7

Disciplina

200.952

Soggetti

Globalization

Electronic books.

Japan Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Deconstruction and the ethical in Asian thought / edited by Youru Wang -- Introduction to Daoist thought, action, language, and ethics in Zhuangzi / Eske Møllgaard -- Religious commodifications in Asia, marketing gods / edited by Pattana Kitiarsa -- Christianity and the state in Asia, complicity and conflict / edited by Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Christianity in contemporary China, socio-cultural perspectives / edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Buddha and religious diversity / J. Abraham Velez de Cea -- Japanese religions and globalization / Ugo Dessi.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shint?, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of globalization, and how they respond to these flows by shaping new glocal identities. The book highlights how, paradoxically, these processes of religious hybridization may be closely intertwined with the promotion of cultural chauvinism. It shows how on the one hand religion in Japan is en