Oriental Religions

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role i...

The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southea...

Folk and popular religion is a very significant part of Chinese religious life, especially in rural areas. Contemporary Religions in China focuses ...

Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first syste...

A brilliant cross-cultural interpretation of a key text of yoga philosophy The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is the foundational text of yoga philosoph...

Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestor...