Transcendence and Violence(English, Hardcover, D'Arcy May John)

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Transcendence and Violence(English, Hardcover, D'Arcy May John) is written by D'Arcy May John and published by Continuum Publishing Corporation. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 082641513X (ISBN 10) and 9780826415134 (ISBN 13).

The first two parts of this book present four detailed historical studies, filled with Geertzian "thick description," of the encounters of Christianity and Buddhism (universal religions with a high quotient of "transcendence") with various primal religious traditions ("biocosmic" or "immanentist") of the Asian-Pacific region, namely, Aboriginal Australia and Melanesia (Christianity) and Sri Lanka and Japan (Buddhism). In each case, the encounters represented a failure of the "great" traditions. In the third, constructive and theological part of the book, the author shows how an acknowledgment of these failures may provide a back door to dialogue.