Rethinking Missionaries and Medicine in China: The Miracles of Assunta Pallotta, 1905–2005

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrietta Harrison
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The West ◽  
Mission Hospital ◽  
Catholic Mission ◽  
Missionary Medicine

This paper uses the cult of Assunta Pallotta, an Italian Catholic nun who died in a north China village in 1905, to critique the existing literature on missionary medicine in China. She was recognized as holy because of the fragrance that accompanied her death, and later the incorrupt state of her body, and her relics were promoted as a source of healing by the Catholic mission hospital, absorbed into local folk medicine, and are still in use today. By focusing on Catholics, not Protestants, and women, not men, the paper suggests similarities between European and Chinese traditional religious and medical cultures and argues that instead of seeing a transfer of European biomedicine to China, we need to think of a single globalized process in which concepts of science and religion, China and the West were framed.

From Decline of the West to Dawn of Day

Janus Head ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Hub Zwart ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Smart Technologies

This paper subjects Dan Brown’s most recent novel Origin to a philosophical reading. Origin is regarded as a literary window into contemporary technoscience, inviting us to explore its transformative momentum and disruptive impact, focusing on the cultural significance of artificial intelligence and computer science: on the way in which established world-views are challenged by the incessant wave of scientific discoveries made possible by super-computation. While initially focusing on the tension between science and religion, the novel’s attention gradually shifts to the increased dependence of human beings on smart technologies and artificial (or even “synthetic”) intelligence. Origin’s message, I will argue, reverberates with Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, which aims to outline a morphology of world civilizations. Although the novel starts with a series of oppositions, most notably between religion and science, the eventual tendency is towards convergence, synthesis and sublation, exemplified by Sagrada Família as a monumental symptom of this transition. Three instances of convergence will be highlighted, namely the convergence between science and religion, between humanity and technology and between the natural sciences and the humanities.

Wars and Rumours of War, 1918-1945: Japan, the West and Asia Pacific

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Buckley
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
General Public ◽  
British Literature ◽  
North China ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The West

Supported by an in-depth Introduction and contextual analysis, this six-volume set complements Series I (1918-1937 – From Armistice to North China), addressing the history between 1938 and1945. Despite the widespread operation of war-time censorship and surveillance, publishers in the West and, to a lesser degree in East Asia, put out a range of material that remains of considerable value to later generations. Some of the texts selected are undeniably partisan but the quantity of the published material (and to some extent its quality) left the general public with a vast and varied archive of printed matter that deserves to be consulted and debated by today's researchers and students. Greater attention is given to American and British literature rather than Chinese or Japanese simply by virtue of the practical realities.

Knee Surgery and the Indian Knee: The Importance of the Preservation of Flexion

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R N Villar ◽  
V K Solomon ◽  
J Rangam
Keyword(s):  
Knee Flexion ◽  
Third World ◽  
Degenerative Disease ◽  
Knee Surgery ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mission Hospital ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Indian Mission ◽  
Knee Pathology

The pattern of knee pathology seen in an Indian mission hospital following the introduction of knee clinics is described. This paper reports the results of the first 200 consecutive patients seen at these clinics, relating the findings to anticipated treatments. The occurrence of degenerative disease was high. The importance of knee flexion, in order to be able to squat, is highlighted. The necessity to adopt this position materially alters the types of treatment that can be offered to this group of people. It is concluded that treatments common to the West are not always suitable for patients in the Third World.

scholarly journals Farabi – Teacher of Civilization

Adam alemi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (86) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
D. Kenzhetai
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The Relationship

Farabi is a great thinker, philosopher and scientist from the Farab region of Turkestan. He was a genius who created a clear understanding of the existence of reason not only for Islamic civilization, but also for the West and East. At the center of debates about state and religion, philosophy and science, science and religion, theism and atheism, existentialism and existence in the West in the last century, al-Farabi’s legacy is in immediate demand. This requirement is also relevant for today’s secular country – Kazakhstan. Obviously, we need the legacy of Farabi in order to get rid of the epidemic of the Salafi tendency in our country, the suffocation of reason, in order to clarify the relationship between reason and proverb in the relationship between state and religion.

The Paleolithic of Trans-Baikal

1961 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Okladnikov ◽  
Chester S. Chard
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fish Bones ◽  
Woolly Rhinoceros ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
The Common

AbstractPaleolithic remains, mostly surface finds from blowouts, are known from 63 sites in the Trans-Baikal, one of the five large regional subdivisions of the Siberian Paleolithic. Most important recent discoveries are the stratified sites of Oshurkovo and Sannyi Mys and the Pleistocene faunal sequence on Tologoi Mountain. Characteristic stone tools are made from whole or split pebbles and from blades removed from prismatic cores. Bone artifacts, known only from Oshurkovo, include slotted points and knives and flat antler harpoons. The Trans-Baikal finds, all Upper Paleolithic in time, are tentatively arranged in five chronological stages. The earliest period is based on the lower levels at Sannyi Mys in which microblades, but no pebble tools, are found with woolly rhinoceros and mammoth. The next period is represented by large pebble tools and cores from Ust"-Kiakhta Locality 3. Typical Siberian pebble tools found with horse in the upper levels at Sannyi Mys are assigned to the third stage. The fourth is best known from Oshurkovo where all the common Siberian Paleolithic stone tools are found along with bone artifacts in deposits which contain abundant fish bones. A number of sites are assigned to the fifth stage, but it is best represented by the uppermost level at Oshurkovo where flakes, flaked pebbles, and small blade tools of regular outline replace the large blades and pebble cores of the earlier periods. This tentative sequence is strengthened by correlations with the Angara and Yenisei areas to the west and with Mongolia and North China to the east. The Trans-Baikal is seen as an area in which the prismatic core and blade tradition of Eurafrican origin and the split pebble-tool tradition of eastern Asia were in contact from the earliest known period.

Deep-Water Contourite Drifts in the West of North-China Platform

2013 ◽  
Vol 318 ◽  
pp. 447-452
Author(s):  
Shun She Luo ◽  
Zhen Zhong Gao ◽  
You Bin He ◽  
Qi Qi Lv ◽  
Ying Meng
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
North China ◽  
The West ◽  
North China Platform ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Contourite Drifts

The middle Ordovician of Pingliang area on the west margin of North-China platform is represented by a succession of deep-water sediments in which contourites are well-developed. Contour current deposits are well-developed. The contourites can be classified into:calcarenitic contourite, calcisiltitic contourite and calcilutitic contourite. Three typical contourite successions are recognized: complete contourite succession, incomplete contourite succession and contourite successions consisting only of calcarenitic contourites. According to the palaeocorrent and the palaeogeographic format analyse,carbonate contourite drift in the study area is unfolded crossing northwest-southeast, forwarding from southeast to northwest along the slope, and compared with other contourite drifts, it has some characteristics of coarser-grained sediment, thicker individual layers, and highly developed calcarenitic contourites and so on.

Studying the Qurʾan: Neither Here nor There

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Qidwai
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Colonial Encounters

Abstract This paper addresses three aspects of Majid Daneshgar’s monograph Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy. The first part looks at the complexities around the lack of coherence between the Muslim Academy and so-called “Western” Institutions. Drawing on some examples from my own life, I will address the hesitance to embrace sources from the West as highlighted by Daneshgar. Then, I will present an example from the “Western Academy” that speaks to a broader audience across this divide. The second part of this paper will address the phenomenon of trying to find scientific proofs in the Qur‘an and the issues around those attempts in the field of the history of science and religion. Drawing on my own research, the third part of this reflection will draw on the example of Islam in India to show the complex nature of the so-called Muslim Academy and its ties to colonial encounters.

An Integrated Global Science and Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Brandon Vaidyanathan ◽  
Kirstin R. W. Matthews ◽  
Steven W. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Science

In the countries and regions featured in this book, there are more religious scientists than we might think. There are varieties of atheism that exist among scientists in these Western and Eastern contexts. In contrast to the “warfare thesis” that science and religion are inherently in conflict with one another, the conflict perspective on science and religion is primarily promulgated by those in the West. The popular notion of science and religion as “nonoverlapping magisteria”—that science and religion are domains of human experience that do not overlap, with science the realm of natural facts and religion the realm of values—is only partially true. There are many ways forward for dialogue.

Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. King
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Body ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

In the West, meditation has been particularly associated with Asian religions and seen as illustrative of the mystical nature of eastern culture. This chapter explores the impact of the colonial encounter between Europe and Asia. In this context, Asian meditative practices became abstracted from their traditional cosmological, ritualistic, and cultural contexts and reframed in terms of key conceptual binaries and assumptions deriving from modern Western culture. These include a Cartesian distinction between mind and body (with mind being associated with meditation and Buddhist mindfulness, and the body linked to “Hindu” yoga and its modern postural forms). Asian forms of meditation were translated according to a modern psychological framework and encountered in relation to the dichotomies between science and religion on the one hand and religious tradition and a de-traditionalized notion of spirituality on the other. The approaches taken in the Western encounter with Asian meditation tell us as much about the intellectual grooves of the modern Western episteme as they do about the Asian meditative traditions to which they relate.

Ch'ing Changing Images of the Overseas Chinese (1644–1912)

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Ching-Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
North China ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
The West ◽  
Naval Power ◽  
Southeast Coast ◽  
The Government ◽  
Resistance Movement

The Manchus inherited from the Ming Dynasty the images of the overseas Chinese as well as the policy towards them. The tarnished images of the overseas Chinese as ‘deserters’, ‘criminals’, and ‘potential traitors’ of the Ming were taken over by the early Ch'ing rulers. These images were soon transformed into new images of ‘political criminals’, ‘conspirators’ and ‘rebels’, for in the first four decades after the Manchu conquest of North China in 1644, the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia were directly involved in the resistance movement on the southeast coast of China. The leader of the movement, Cheng Ch'eng-kung (known in the West as Koxinga), seems to have enlisted the support of the overseas Chinese, particularly from Vietnam, Cambodia and Siam, for his resistance. It is claimed that Koxinga's naval power was partly drawn from Nanyang (Southeast Asia) shipping, and financed from the profits of the Nanyang trade. Of course those overseas Chinese who supported Koxinga made no apology for their involvement. They saw the Manchus as alien usurpers and as the oppressors of the Han Chinese, and the support for Koxinga's resistance movement was seen as an act of patriotism to save Han Chinese from the oppressive Manchu rule. The government countered the overseas Chinese involvement by introducing stringent laws against private overseas trade. In 1656 (13th year of the Emperor Shun-chih), a decree was proclaimed that‘….any traders who go overseas privately and trade or supply the rebels with provisions will be beheaded, and their goods confiscated.

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