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As in the first edition of the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (1978), this second edition differs markedly from other works of reference dealing with the history of American foreign policy. Instead of bringing together batches of information on many topics, it offers in-depth, original, interpretive essays commissioned from distinguished scholars who are experts in concepts, themes, large ideas, significant movements, and distinctive policies relations. Unlike textbook writers, they do recount in detail major episodes. These essays may be used to supplement, in history textbooks, encyclopedias. essays offer a unique approach to the study of America’s but shorter than monographs. Their length has allowed authors sufficient space topics deeply without including the usual scholarly paraphernalia. schools because they can quickly find and read authoritative accounts written in clear, straightforward prose in three easily available volumes rather than search through many books and academic journals, often scattered in distant constructed bibliographies for more information and for leads to other sources.
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Welcome to American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia. These volumes are the culmination of an enormous corners of both academia and Indian work was to compile a set of articles academic religious traditions is undertaken at the beginning reference work both sensitive to and reflective of the Native communities upon The entries in these volumes, therefore, do not approach religion as an isolated experience political, economic, and social lives, placing their individual topics within the wider social and political context. These academics and community members, as well as non-Native scholars who have demonstrated themselves sensitive to the concerns of Native communities and aware of the political implications of proud to present entries written by the top scholars in the field, whose scholarly endeavors are a to Native cultural survival. We have that Native voices are respected in these volumes, encouraging our authors to consult with elders, community managers whenever possible. encouraged that more than half of the entries in these volumes are of Native descent. For much of its early history, scholarship communities was done by non-Native authors who had little knowledge of the internal workings of from the perspective of outsiders, work misrepresentedNative religious life. This encyclopedia seeks to rectify this problem by presenting Native spiritual traditions as they are understood by people within the communities themselves.
This collection of some fifty essays on Asian philosophy is designed as a reference volume for students, scholars and others who require more than just a simple sketch of ‘oriental’ ideas. It has been complied with the intention of doing justice to the arguments, ideas and presuppositions of philosophers working largely outside the confines of western philosophical traditions. institutions world-wide in an exploration of the great diversity of the philosophical These traditions are of quite widespread interest in the West, but their general appreciation falls far short of their vitality, their rigour and their immense that this volume will also prove useful to those working within any one of the Asian traditions who wish to acquire a foundation in other such traditions. the ideas discussed in this volume have a natural home only within a limited part of the globe. But the distinction between Asian and western philosophical traditions is a blurred one. Japanese philosophy, for example, has for a century or so had a very deep interest in the philosophers of Germany and of France; before that, Japanese philosophers had found inspiration in systems of thought that had come from India and China. Chinese philosophy, as another example, is far from ignorant of and uninspired by the philosophers of Europe and of America. And contemporary Indian philosophers are just as at home with Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein and Quine as with Sa kara or Aurobindo. Islamic they are as much some of them have worked west as Spain. The tradition of ancient Persian thought is, surprisingly to some, still alive and well among the Parsi thinkers of present-day Canada.
