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  • Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan

    Four Animal Conservation Paradigms

    by W. Puck Brecher ...
    For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as “the world’s boldest eco-outlaw.” Its animal protections are equally disappointing: comprehensive assessments by the World Animal Protection Index rank Japan among the worst in the developed world. Given Japan’s close ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Animal Care in Japanese Tradition

    A Short History

    by W. Puck Brecher ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    This volume provides an historical overview of Japan's relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Its analysis serves as a lens through which to scrutinize Japanese tradition and interrogate ahistorical claims about Japan’s culturally endemic empathy for the natural world. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan’s much-maligned record of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Animal Care in Japanese Tradition

    A Short History

    by W. Puck Brecher ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    This volume provides an historical overview of Japan's relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Its analysis serves as a lens through which to scrutinize Japanese tradition and interrogate ahistorical claims about Japan’s culturally endemic empathy for the natural world. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan’s much-maligned record of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Religion and Sport in Japan

    by Natsuko Saka, Annie Blazer, Christoph Reichenbaecher, W. Puck Brecher, Robin Kietlinski, Paul Droubie, Eduardo Gonzalez de la Fuente, Eric Teixeira Mendes, Andreas Niehaus, Alexander Vesey ...
    The sports world’s attention was focused on Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The years-long buildup to and aftermath of the games occurred in the midst of the global pandemic, which delayed the event until 2021. Given all of this, there is perhaps no better time to delve into an often overlooked but critical facet of sport in Japan: religion.Religion has long been a part ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Women in Japanese Religions

    by Barbara R Ambros ...
    Series Book 1 - Women in Religions
    A comprehensive history of women in Japanese religious traditionsScholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women. Much existing scholarship depicts Japan's religious traditions as mere means of oppression. But this view raises a question: How have ambivalent and even misogynistic religious discourses on gender still come to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dharma Rain

    Edited by Stephanie Kaza, Kenneth Kraft ...
    A comprehensive collection of classic texts, contemporary interpretations, guidelines for activists, issue-specific information, and materials for environmentally-oriented religious practice. Sources and contributors include Basho, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Chögyam Trungpa, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mathiessen, Helen Tworkov (editor of Tricycle), and Philip Glass. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Lost Wolves of Japan

    by Brett L. Walker ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism

    Edited by Michael Jerryson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    As an incredibly diverse religious system, Buddhism is constantly changing. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism offers a comprehensive collection of work by leading scholars in the field that tracks these changes up to the present day. Taken together, the book provides a blueprint to understanding Buddhism's past and uses it to explore the ways in which Buddhism has transformed in the ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia

    by David L Gosling ...
    What part can Hindu and Buddhist traditions play in resolving the ecological problems facing India and South East Asia? David Gosling's exciting study, based on extensive fieldwork, is of global significance: the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling looks at ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Story is in Our Bones

    How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

    by Osprey Orielle Lake ...
    It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for allThese pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth.—Joanna Macy, author, Coming Back to Life and Active HopeThe dominant cultural worldviewis based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, environmental, and climate ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus