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| | Buddhist philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Buddha criticized all concepts of metaphysical being and non-being, and this critique is inextricable from the founding of Buddhism. | | | Buddhist philosophy is the branch of Eastern philosophy based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha (c. | | | But other Buddhist teachings claim that there is no meaningful difference between ourselves and others; therefore one should attempt to increase the happiness of all living things as eagerly as one's own. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_philosophy
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| | Buddhist polemics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It seems that from the very beginning Buddhists were involved in a struggle with non-believers to establish the Truth. | | | Buddhist polemics revolve around the veracity and efficacy of doctrine and practice. | | | If one accepts the Pali Canon as evidence (and most Buddhists would) then there is ample evidence that the so-called 'Hinayana' practices were efficacious. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_polemics
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| | The Buddhist Critique of Sassatavada and Ucchedavada |
| | The first is that sassatavada is the Buddhist term for all religions other than Buddhism which were current at the time of the Buddha. | | | The second is that ucchedavada is the Buddhist term for all forms of materialism which reject all religions, including Buddhism. | | | Therefore, the Buddhist teaching on suffering could also be understood as the Buddhist teaching on the pursuit of happiness. |
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http://www.tathagata.org/~anson/ebud/ebdha263.htm
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| | Buddhist Studies: Vegetarianism |
| | Vegetarianism was not a part of the early Buddhist tradition and the Buddha himself was not a vegetarian. | | | Ruegg, D.S. "Ahimsa and Vegetarianism in the History of Buddhism" in Buddhist Studies in Honour of Walpola Rahula. | | | There are differences of opinion between Buddhists on this issue so we will attempt to present the arguments of those who believe that vegetarianism is necessary for Buddhists and those who do not. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd21.htm
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| | USF Center for the Pacific Rim - Pacific Rim Report #9 |
| | For many Buddhists, it is a practice (e.g. | | | See, for example, Sylvia Boorstein, That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a Passionate Buddhist (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997). | | | A popular Buddhist saying reads: “Buddha is more pleased when you debate the meaning of his sutras than when you merely venerate his words.” John Stevens, The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei (Boston: Shambhala, 1988), p. |
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http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport9.html
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| | Hinayana |
| | See also: Early Buddhist Schools, Yana, Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Buddhist polemics | | | Many Buddhist schools today are adopting the terms "Nikaya" or "Shravakayana" when referring to the Theravada and other schools of the past, since Hinayana has been seen to be offensive by the Theravada and their followers, while some modern Mahayana Buddhists insist this was never the purpose of the term. | | | However the term is still in current use to describe traditions that aspire to Arhatship, especially in some Tibetan Buddhist circles because they inherited texts and teachings from all of the 'yanas' and simply adopted the terminology of the Mahayana Sutras. |
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http://www.objectssearch.com/encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hinayana.html
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| | Journal of Academic Indology - Apohavada and Buddhist Theory of Meaning |
| | However, it should be noted that the Buddhist theory of negative inference (anupalabdhi),[38] corresponds to the simple negation (prasajya), and entails the paryyudasa negation. | | | Now the question arises: if the Buddhists are correct in asserting that the meanings of all words are both affirmative and negative at the same time, then different propositional forms would be meaningless. | | | The answer to this is that the Buddhists were concerned with the practical importance of the propositions. |
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http://www.indology.net/printout17.html
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| | UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Public Event, Print Version |
| | "Esoteric" Buddhism and the Polemics of Superiority in Medieval Sinitic Buddhism | | | A native of Los Angeles, he earned his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at UCLA in 2001 with a dissertation on "Buddhist Cults in Silla Korea in their Northeast Asian Context." Dr. McBride has published several articles on aspects of Korean Buddhism, religion, and culture. | | | Looking at how "esoteric teaching" and its mate "exoteric teaching" are employed in Buddhist literature can help us understand why the existence of "Esoteric Buddhism" in the Sinitic world is difficult to demonstrate. |
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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/buddhist/printevent.asp?eventid=975
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| | The Supremacy of the Law |
| | Furthermore, you maintain your faith in the Buddhist gods and continue to worship the Buddha. | | | Thus, all the Buddhist sutras are to the non-Buddhist scriptures as gold is to stones. | | | Certainly the Buddhist gods will protect you and the Ten Goddesses will have compassion for you. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Nichiren/Gosho/SupremacyLaw.htm
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| | New Sinhala extremist party stands Buddhist monks in Sri Lankan elections |
| | The JHU is standing 252 Buddhist priests as candidates in 21 of the country& 22 electoral districts on an explicitly Sinhala-Buddhist supremacist program. | | | In 1959, he was assassinated by a monk who was outraged that he had not gone further in creating a Sinhala Buddhist state. | | | During the 1956 elections, the Buddhist clergy, organised under the United Front of Buddhist Clergy (Eksath Bhikku Peramuna), became proselytizers for Bandaranaike. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/jhu-a01.shtml
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| | Triablogue |
| | So what "A Buddhist Critique of the Christian Concept of God" really amounts to is an Occidental critique of a post-Christian concept of God. | | | So it was with a sense of anticipation that I read "A Buddhist Critique of the Christian Concept of God" (Antioch, 1988) by Gunapala Dharmasiri. | | | But an argument "against" Christianity is only an argument "for" Buddhism if it represents the application of properly Buddhist principles to the issue at hand. |
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http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2004/04/christ-or-buddha-1.html
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| | BUDDHIST PERCEPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY Somebody who is a christian and looks up on the religious scene in korea might find much easier a buddhist perception from christianity and of course there are such takeovers, so they should be mentioned before we go into the wise a verse thing. | | | Catholics and Buddhist are in their view the same poor who have to go to hell will they not convert so "their" church. | | | There are sunday-services in the mist buddhist temples, according to the 7 day week with the free sunday, and additional to traditional buddhists instruments the visitor and participant of buddhist services will find a piano used to guide buddhist songs with very christian like melody, and even women-choirs like in parish services. |
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http://www.buddhist-christian-studies.org/sept99.txt
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| | UU Sangha, Spring 2002 |
| | Such inclusions of Buddhist and other heritages of the world's religions in UU congregational life are not widespread but appear to be growing. | | | Aspects of Buddhist practice and belief are introduced to young people (monastic life, transmigration, Nirvana, etc.). | | | Among the Buddhist stories are tales of Buddha's birth and quest for enlightenment, a story about King Ashoka, and four Jataka tales. |
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http://www.uua.org/uubf/sangv6n2.htm
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| | ejcjs - Ideology, Academic Inventions and Mystical Anthropology: Responding to Fitzgerald's Errors and Misguided ... |
| | Buddhist figures of worship such as Kannon, for example, had their Pure Lands that were set apart yet accessible from this realm (hence the tradition of monks who set out from this physical world, leaving the shores of southern Kumano or Shikoku to journey to Kannon’s Pure Land Fudaraku). | | | The term shūkyō certainly is derived, but from Chinese Buddhist terminology, first appearing in Chinese Buddhist texts, where it is used as a reference term for Buddhism. | | | Hence certain types of institutions (Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines) were given particular rights because of their nature, related to the worship of particular types of being and their association with other realms, and were marked out legally and in tax terms as different from institutions (e.g. |
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http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/discussionpapers/Reader.html
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| | ZfR. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. Abstracts 2003 |
| | The contradiction between the Buddhist principle of non-violence and the propagation of violence in defense of religion was smoothed by a special legitimation strategy, which included a minimalisation of the bad karma resulting from the killing of a foe of Buddhism. | | | It is shown that inclusivistic rhetorical and narrative strategies and their polemics and Buddhist counter-polemics have dominated the discussions around the text to a degree that it came to a total ban of this »classic« under the rule of the Mongols. | | | On a theoretical level the violence accompanying the Mongolian conversion to Tibetan Buddhism was often justified by referring to the Buddhist political theory of the »two orders«, a concept that outlines an ideal Buddhist society in which the state provides the best possible means for its subjects to pursue the goal of enlightenment. |
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http://www.zfr-online.de/zfr-abstract-2003e.html
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| | Taoism and Science |
| | After examining Buddhist scriptures it is natural to conclude, at least as a broad and preliminary generalization, that "in the last resort, Buddhism was a profound rejection of the world . . . | | | Taoists borrowed monasticism from Buddhists, competed against them for imperial patronage, split into sects that competed with each other, but failed to build "an organized church." They remained sunk in degeneracy, the intellectual and moral standards of their communities low, until the last "Taoist pope" was ousted in 1927. | | | I-hsing was committed to the life of a Buddhist monk by the time he reached maturity. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/7tao.html
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| | SOAS: Staff: Lucia Dolce |
| | She is also interested in Chinese Buddhist thought and in popular religion in contemporary Japan. | | | G Reeves A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays on the Lotus Sutra, pp.223-239. |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staffinfo.cfm?contactid=43
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| | Buddhist philosophy, Chinese : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | Indian Buddhists accepted only efficient causes as real, while Chinese Buddhists tended to interpret Buddhist causal theories as examples of formal causes. | | | Some of the early polemics against Buddhism in China explicitly attacked it for neglecting to address the question of human nature. | | | 14 Sinicizing Buddhist concepts: is Buddha-nature good or evil? |
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http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/G002SECT11
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| | A reply to an LTTE supporter: Marxism and the national question in Sri Lanka |
| | But it was not until the 1956 elections, in the aftermath of the hartal, that he transformed Buddhist revivalism into a political platform for the SLFP, using the fact that the year officially marked the Buddha Jayanthi—the 2,500 anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment. | | | The aim was to ensure that Sinhala Buddhists dominated in the upper echelons of the state bureaucracy and the military which was increasingly recruited from elite Buddhist schools and colleges. | | | Bandaranaike was supported by the Buddhist hierarchy which sent its monks out to campaign in the towns and villages. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/rep2-m12_prn.shtml
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| | American Buddhist in England: Beyond polemics... moving toward peace with Ratzinger, Benedict XVI |
| | Today I am pursuing an MA in Buddhist Studies in Bristol, UK with plans of getting a doctorate in either Philosophy with East/West emphasis or Religious studies with Buddhist Philosophy emphasis. | | | My goals in religion include developing systems in Western philosophy based on Buddhist models, correlating historical Western philosophers' ideas with those of Buddhists, constructing practical theories of furthering the progress of Buddhism in the West, and, of course, deepening my own personal practice. | | | A Buddhist turns to a Catholic who has turned to a Buddhist who points to a butterfly |
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http://justininengland.blogspot.com/2005/05/beyond-polemics-moving-toward-peace.html
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| | Tiantai - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | Zhiyi's schema culminated with the Lotus Sutra, which he held to be the supreme synthesis of Buddhist doctrine. | | | Zhiyi, taking the Lotus Sutra as his basis, classified the other Buddhist sūtras into five periods and eight types of teachings; he discussed the theory of perfect interpenetration of the triple truth, emphasized both scriptural study and practice, and taught the rapid attainment of Buddhahood through observing the mind. | | | Zhiyi organized all existing Nikaya and Mahayana sutras into a five-part scheme, comprising his view of the various levels of teaching revealed by the Buddha. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Tiantai
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| | What is a cult? |
| | These "cults"--predominantly the Children of God, the Church of Armageddon, the Unification Church, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and the Church of Scientology--had, they charged, radically altered the persoality traits of their children. | | | It did not develop out of any objective research on alternatie religions, rather it emerged in the intense polemics of parents who had been disturbed by changes observed in their sons and dauthters who had joined particular religious groups. | | | In sociological terms, Hindu and Buddhist groups are, in America, cults. |
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http://www.americanreligion.org/cultwtch/whatis.html
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| | What is wrong with apologetics? |
| | What is wrong with polemics is, when a polemic becomes the sole goal and means of communication in a religious community. | | | Although I am still unclear at how polemics can be "polemics" if it is friendlier, or what the role of apologetics is if polemics is planning to stand in it's place. | | | In having a fierce polemic or apologetic with others, I can be busy averting doubts and questions that live within myself. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3750/wrongwithapologetics.html
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| | List of Buddhist topics |
| | List of Buddhist topics Footprint of the Buddha | | | List of Buddhist topics Obaku (school of Buddhism) | | | List of Buddhist topics List of Buddhist temples |
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http://www.infoslurp.com/information/List_of_Buddhist_topics
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "In Poland he found (Maxwell, 1992:37) the following NRMs: 22 Zen Buddhist organizations; 13 Hindu orgs.; 2 Theosophical orgs; Hawaiian Kahuna, a magic movement; Ordo Lux, a Pagan occult movement; 2 esoteric Yoga groups; a Sikh group; a Bahai' group; a Rastafarian gorup. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_488.html
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| | Chinese Buddhist Historiography and Orality |
| | Probably the most common motif seen throughout all early biographies of Chinese Buddhists is the search for Buddhist texts. | | | On the one hand we are still able to see clear evidence of many classics having been transmitted orally, but on the other hand we can observe the idealization of their written versions already having been made, especially because Confucius himself appropriated the written text for the expression of his teaching. | | | The above statement gains evidence from another angle -- the documents of the polemics between pro-Buddhists and anti-Buddhists collected in Hongming ji.... |
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http://spp.pinyin.info/abstracts/spp037_chinese_buddhist.html
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| | Marburg Journal of Religion (July 1999) Marco Frenschkowski |
| | Almost a Buddhistic parable as it might have been written by Gustav Meyrink. | | | They should perhaps be compared to Buddhist or Hindu scriptures about reincarnation. | | | Another such title is Hymn of Asia: An Eastern Poem, Los Angeles 1974 (written in 1955/56), where Hubbard speculates whether he might be Maitreya (Mettaya), the future Buddha spoken of in Buddhist literature. |
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http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/frenschowski.html
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| | Table of contents for Buddhist studies from India to America |
| | Sangha in Tibetan Buddhism Judith Simmer-Brown PART TWO: Buddhist Traditions 5. | | | Table of contents for Buddhist studies from India to America : essays in honor of Charles S. Prebish / edited by Damien Keown. | | | Table of contents for Buddhist studies from India to America |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004175.html
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| | General Distribution of the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122) |
| | 23) the Kushan Dynasty of North India, called a council of Buddhist priests at Vaisalia, to bring uniformity among the Buddhist monks on the observance of their weekly Sabbath. | | | Lérins too became a school of mysticism and theology and spread its religious ideas far and wide by useful works on dogma, polemics and hagiography ( C.E., op. | | | Honoratus, Hilary and Cæsarius were placed at Arles; Eucherius at Lyons, and his sons Salonius and Veranius at Geneva and Venice respectively; Lupus at Troyes; Maximus and Faustus at Riez. |
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http://www.ccg.org/english/s/p122.html
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| | Re: The fundermentals of Christianity and Islam |
| | I would not dream of posting Buddhist polemics to Islamic newsgroups. | | | you posted your piece to a Buddhist newsgroup. | | | If you would show us the same respect, it would be appreciated. |
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http://www.talkaboutreligion.com/group/uk.religion.buddhist/messages/15513.html
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| | Polemic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The antonym of a polemic source is an apology. | | | As such a polemic text on a topic is written specifically to dispute or refute that topic. | | | Polemic is also a branch of theology pertaining to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polemicist
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| | History, India: Indian History, Crafts, Folk Art, Architecture, Culture, Philosophy |
| | Philosophical environment under which Buddhism developed; Buddhist polemics against philosophical extremes; emphasis on gaining knowledge and wisdom, right conduct and action; ethics and morality | | | An assessment of the impact of Islamic rule in India - the effects on social conditions, political structures and education policy: |
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http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/indianculture.html
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| | The American Muslim |
| | BUDDHIST STATUES — Why Did the Taliban Destroy the Buddhist Statues? | | | CONTRADICTIONS — Isn't the Verse That Says the Sun Set in a 'Pool of Water' a Scientific Contradiction? | | | There are materials inside double{{}} that give materials that may be necessary for use when dealing with individuals who are not interested in dialogue but in polemics. |
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http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/research_comments.php?id=447_0_23_0_C
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| | Polemic - Definition of Polemic by Webster's Online Dictionary |
| | polemic - a controversy ( especially over a belief or dogma) | | | One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another ; one skilled in polemics ; a controversialist ; a disputant. | | | polemic - a writer who argues in opposition to others ( especially in theology) |
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http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/polemic
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| | Interfaith Dialogue |
| | Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library (includes Tibetan and Zen documents) | | | Anantanand Rambachan, The nature and authority of scripture: Implication for Hindu-Christian Dialogue | | | Charles Jones, Reflections on the Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in Its Second Decade--Issues in Theory and Pratice |
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http://www.geocities.com/jej89/interfaith.html
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| | Internet Jewish History Sourcebook |
| | Has an online library of 19th century Jewish books. | | | 19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry and fiction, polemics and philosophy. | | | The Not So Secret Relationship Between Jews and the Slave Trade: The Polemical Dimension, [At Simon Wiesenthal Center] |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
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| | Polemics - InformationBlast |
| | Polemics is the art or practice of disputation or controversy, as in religious, philosophical, or political matters. | | | Polemics is also a branch of theology pertaining to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy. |
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http://www.informationblast.com/Polemicist.html
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