Richard Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3870707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Open secularism and the RCMP turban debate
This article examines newspaper articles and opinion pieces related to the 1989 and 1990 case of allowing RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers to wear turbans as part of their formal uniform. Many of those opposed to allowing for this change in RCMP policy demonstrate a sense of an assumed national identity that tends to label immigrants and people from non-European backgrounds as un-Canadian. Once the federal government approved this ch…
Imagining beyond religion and secularism
Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination presents a nuanced analysis of how literature is capable of generating new ways of interpreting the limits of religion and secularism through the rather sl
Hinduism in the News
This article studies Canadian and international newspaper reports from September, 1995, of the Ganesha milk drinking miracle. It analyzes the chronology of the newspaper reports as the story develops from an account of a miracle in the “exotic” East to an account of a miracle also occurring in Canada. The evidence demonstrates an inability on the part of the Canadian news media to view religion as hard news with broad social and political implica…
Material Culture and Asian Religions
1. Introduction: Material Culture and Religious Studies Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann Part I: The Materiality of Writing 2. Bamboo and the Production of Philosophy: A Hypothesis about a Shift in Writing and Thought in Early China Dirk Meyer 3. Seeing in Between the Space: The Aura of Writing and the Shape of Artistic Productions in Medieval South Asia Jinah Kim 4. Manuscripts and Shifting Geographies: The Dvadasajyotirlingastotra from t…
Skanda in Epic and Puranic Literature
This article explores the origins and development of the Hindu deity Skanda in North India from approximately the fourth centurybceto the seventh centuryce. The author suggests that previous scholarship on this deity has located his origins in two sources: the Indus Valley and in an amalgamation of related deities. The article questions the Indus Valley hypothesis and develops the amalgamation hypothesis by examining a variety of textual and non-…
Philosophy and Politics in China
Skanda in Epic and Puranic Literature
This article explores the origins and development of the Hindu deity Skanda in North India from approximately the fourth centurybceto the seventh centuryce. The author suggests that previous scholarship on this deity has located his origins in two sources: the Indus Valley and in an amalgamation of related deities. The article questions the Indus Valley hypothesis and develops the amalgamation hypothesis by examining a variety of textual and non-…
Philosophy and Politics in China
Skanda in Epic and Puranic Literature
This article explores the origins and development of the Hindu deity Skanda in North India from approximately the fourth centurybceto the seventh centuryce. The author suggests that previous scholarship on this deity has located his origins in two sources: the Indus Valley and in an amalgamation of related deities. The article questions the Indus Valley hypothesis and develops the amalgamation hypothesis by examining a variety of textual and non-…
Material Culture and Asian Religions
1. Introduction: Material Culture and Religious Studies Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann Part I: The Materiality of Writing 2. Bamboo and the Production of Philosophy: A Hypothesis about a Shift in Writing and Thought in Early China Dirk Meyer 3. Seeing in Between the Space: The Aura of Writing and the Shape of Artistic Productions in Medieval South Asia Jinah Kim 4. Manuscripts and Shifting Geographies: The Dvadasajyotirlingastotra from t…
Hinduism in the News
This article studies Canadian and international newspaper reports from September, 1995, of the Ganesha milk drinking miracle. It analyzes the chronology of the newspaper reports as the story develops from an account of a miracle in the “exotic” East to an account of a miracle also occurring in Canada. The evidence demonstrates an inability on the part of the Canadian news media to view religion as hard news with broad social and political implica…
Imagining beyond religion and secularism
Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination presents a nuanced analysis of how literature is capable of generating new ways of interpreting the limits of religion and secularism through the rather sl
Open secularism and the RCMP turban debate
This article examines newspaper articles and opinion pieces related to the 1989 and 1990 case of allowing RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers to wear turbans as part of their formal uniform. Many of those opposed to allowing for this change in RCMP policy demonstrate a sense of an assumed national identity that tends to label immigrants and people from non-European backgrounds as un-Canadian. Once the federal government approved this ch…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · Politics (2 works)