Word: taoism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store has a religion section, including shelves on various Eastern religions like Hinduism, Islam and Taoism...
Conferences in the series studied ten world religions--Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Jainism and indigenous traditions--as they relate to ecology...
...Qidan produced exquisite ceramics, which were commissioned from skilled artisans in conquered Chinese states. They also developed elaborate funerary trappings, including yurt-shape urns, gold burial masks, painted wooden coffins and tomb guardians, that seem to indicate a melding of the region's major religions: Taoism, Buddhism and shamanism...
...Russia, archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old depictions of tigers carved by the Goldis people, who revered the tiger as an ancestor and as god of the wild regions. In Hindu mythology the goddess Durga rides the tiger. And Chang Tao-ling, a patriarch of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, also mounts a big cat in his quest to fight evil and seek the essence of life. In the English-speaking world nearly every schoolchild who has ever studied poetry is familiar with William Blake's attempt to frame with words the tiger's "fearful symmetry." India's Valmik Thapar...
Some eras have been particularly critical for God's history. During the so- called Axial Age (800 B.C. to 200 B.C.), political and economic changes led to new religious ideologies throughout the known civilized world: Taoism and Confucianism in China, Buddhism and Hinduism in India, the rational philosophy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece, differing concepts of monotheism in Israel and in Iran (Zoroastrianism). Common to all these ideologies was what Armstrong calls "the duty of compassion," meaning authentic religious experiences must be integrated into everyday life. The Axial Age was a time of prosperity, when power was passing from...