#LookItUP: Religion and Politics in UHP Journals

 

upweekiconThis is Part 5 in a series of University of Hawai`i Press blog posts celebrating University Press Week and highlighting scholarship published by UH Press journals in the past year. Read our introductory blog post here. Our hope is that this series will shed new light on how UH Press “sells the facts,” so to speak, and the value our 24 journals bring to our very existence. Links to each journal and article are provided below.*


Religion and Politics

00_BCS 37_c1 and c4_REVBuddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 37, 2017
Special Section:
What Is Wrong With Us? What Is Wrong with the World?

Context: A sign of the times: Volume 37 of Buddhist-Christian Studies includes a special section of four articles where theologians attempt to answer these questions: What is Wrong With Us? What is Wrong With the World?

 

 

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Palapala: A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature, Volume 1, 2017
Article: “No ka Baibala Hemolele: The Making of the Hawaiian Bible” by Jeffrey Lyon

Context: In the first peer-reviewed Hawaiian language journal to be published exclusively online, Palapala editor and author Jeffrey “Kapali” Lyon shares the history behind the making of the Hawaiian Bible, the largest single volume ever printed in the Hawaiian language.

 

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Journal of Korean ReligionsVolume 8, Number 1, April 2017
Special Issue: The 1,400th Anniversary of Wŏnhyo’s Birth

Context: How long can a religious figure shape the cultural landscape of a nation? In the case of Wŏnhyo 元曉, we can confidently say 1,400 years. The editors of the Journal of Korean Religions curated a special issue showing how the Korean Buddhist scholar’s writings “continue to inspire the current generation of intellectuals in Korea, Asia, and the West.”

 

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Philosophy East and WestVolume 67, Number 4, October 2017
Special Issue: Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference, “State-of-the-Art on Comparative Philosophy”

Context: Philosophy East and West Volume 67 tackles issues around the long-standing tendency of Western philosophers to reject the legitimacy of Chinese, Indian and Japanese philosophy.

 

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