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June 2024

June 22, 2024
  Anyone who knows the Catholic Church would scoff at the idea of it being...
June 20, 2024
The return of the Catholic Church to China began with the Jesuits. In the last...
June 10, 2024
The Chinese religious scene is nothing if not adaptable. This is nowhere truer than in...

May 2024

May 16, 2024
  The greatest indicator of the Longhua jing’s success was the new group consciousness that...
May 15, 2024
  As the Ming era wound down, the Three Ages sects continued to evolve. There...
May 02, 2024
  The Huangtian dao (黄天道—Way of the Yellow Heaven) or Huangtian jiao (黄天教—Teaching of the...

April 2024

April 30, 2024
It did not take long for the synthesis of Three-Ages, Luoist, and divine Mother beliefs...

March 2024

March 16, 2024
  The transformative effect of the recent developments in sectarianism—Patriarch Luo’s teachings and the adoption...
March 07, 2024
The decades following the publication of the Huangji jieguo baojuan would see two key events...

February 2024

February 25, 2024
  The Ming period was the golden age of sectarian thought in imperial China. Religious...
February 14, 2024
We have discussed in detail how much of Buddhist eschatology in China was simply a...

January 2024

January 22, 2024
By the time that Zhu Yuanzhang rode to the imperial throne on the back of...
January 20, 2024
  Before we can adequately discuss the nature of this popular sectarianism and its own...
January 19, 2024
It has often been noted that great ideas have the odd tendency of occurring independently...

November 2023

November 25, 2023
“A prophet foretells the future,” as Marjorie Reeves says. “He can also create it” (135)....
November 12, 2023
  Among Joachim of Fiore’s many remarkable ideas, his unique understanding of the Antichrist has,...

September 2023

September 12, 2023
    Everything you believe about the world can be traced back to an apocalyptic...

August 2023

August 22, 2023
There are a number of things in the historical record that suggest that Shu-Han possessed...
August 21, 2023
As noted previously. Liu Bei’s realm was centered in the region of Sichuan and has...
August 20, 2023
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms establishes a clear dividing line between its heroic protagonists...

July 2023

July 26, 2023
Millennialism has a long history in China. Though millennialist thinking spans the globe, rarely has...
July 14, 2023
Recently, I have found myself turning back to that great monument of Chinese literature, the...

June 2023

June 27, 2023
Among the various Arthurian texts in my possession is a 1987 edition of Geoffrey Ashe’s...
June 26, 2023
Despite the claim of Scott Morris Jr. in Confederate Poets that “[t]he poet-physician [Ticknor] never...
June 25, 2023
  While the nation as a whole at the outbreak of the Civil War was...

May 2023

May 29, 2023
  It is chiefly “Avilion” that has brought Bridges to the attention of researchers today....
May 28, 2023
      A kind of nationalized Christian millennialism may have been the most common...
May 20, 2023
    Before we can turn to the Civil War-era writers mentioned in the last...
May 06, 2023
  In “To the Queen,” the verse epilogue to his great Arthurian work, Idylls of...

March 2023

March 13, 2023
  It is remarkable, given the number of centuries that Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur reigned...
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