Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures: case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups
Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local language and b) compared to the meanings of equivale...
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2008
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Journal of religious culture
Year: 2008 |
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