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ISBN: 9780582784529 | 0582784522
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Copyright: 9/18/2007

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What implication does our perception of time have for how we view the world and how we understand history? Provides a guide to non-western conceptualisations of history (in Buddhism and the Australian Dreamtime), which is very rare in existing books. Has agenuinely comparative approach in which western empiricism is not assumed as the normal basis for doing history. Itts an extremely comprehensive historical survey - ranging from early religions to the contemporary world. Meshes together of debates from History, Philosophy and Theology to generate a new argument.

Preface to the series	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction - The enigma of being-in-time	p. 1
Epistemology	p. 4
Religion and history: the enigma of being-in-time	p. 7
Structure	p. 10
The varieties of time	p. 13
On progress	p. 27
Theorizing time	p. 32
Modernism	p. 35
Ricoeur	p. 40
Deeds Ermarth	p. 45
Robert Young	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 49
In the beginning...Jewish contestations of time	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Reading the Bible	p. 52
Reading the Old Testament	p. 56
Context	p. 59
The Jews as a nation	p. 59
Monotheism?	p. 64
Principles	p. 67
God and man	p. 67
God and time	p. 69
Questions of agency and omniscience	p. 71
Time and nature	p. 72
Job on time	p. 77
Cultures of time	p. 82
Measuring and celebrating time	p. 82
Life, death and the end	p. 84
Ecclesiastes	p. 87
IV Histories	p. 92
Historical modes	p. 92
Jewish linearity and Greek cycles	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 99
The new times of Christianity	p. 102
Introduction	p. 102
Reading the New Testament	p. 103
Temporal grammar	p. 106
Christianity and Jewish time	p. 110
Moltmann and the Trinity	p. 114
Ritual and time	p. 116
Prophecy	p. 118
Miracles and the resurrection	p. 121
The end of time	p. 126
History-writing in the Gospels	p. 135
Paul's history	p. 139
Metaphors and dreams	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 146
On dreaming time	p. 148
Introduction	p. 148
Anthropologizing Australians	p. 150
The history people: classical Australian culture and time	p. 153
Seeing time	p. 159
Caterpillar dreaming	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 165
The Islamic synthesis	p. 168
Introduction	p. 168
Islam and time	p. 170
Islamic history	p. 180
Andalusi time: the conquest	p. 183
Andalusi time: the Umayyads	p. 185
Andalusi time: the Alhamhra	p. 188
Andalusi time: 1492	p. 191
Andalusi time: today	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 195
Time and untime - Buddhism	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
Gotama's invocation to his priests	p. 199
Meditation on time	p. 199
Six early questions for the empirical historian	p. 202
Buddhist historiography	p. 202
The second jewel: the dharma	p. 204
Karma	p. 206
Nirvana	p. 207
The Theravada	p. 208
The Mahayana	p. 209
Zen	p. 211
An accidental Buddhist history	p. 214
Selves and selflessness	p. 214
The Buddhist dialectic	p. 216
The dry-landscape garden of Ryogen-in	p. 218
Conclusion: principles of Buddhist time	p. 219
Modern times	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
Reformation and enlightenment	p. 222
After Islam's enlightenment	p. 225
Disciples	p. 228
God reviewed	p. 231
The new science	p. 237
Conclusion	p. 242
Guide to key reading	p. 250
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 285
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