The mystique of martial arts
A response to Professor McFarlane
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13926663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Keenan (0000-0002-1844-4879, corresponding author), John P Keenan (0000-0002-7592-1491) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1990-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-1042 |
| Publisher | Nanzan University (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.18874/jjrs.17.4.1990.421-432 |
| OpenAlex | W2341960126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The article was intended to be provocative if not very ambitious. It is in large part a descriptive piece about popular culture in the West and how it attempts to embrace the traditional martial arts of the East. I performed no sociological analysis that might have provided a full picture of what a statistically significant portion of modern martial artists do and think. It is interesting that Dr. Stewart McFarlane -who teaches the only university-level course on the martial arts in the U.K. -has taken up the cudgel, for many of the ideas expressed were worked out in conversations with Minoru Kiyota-who is the only Buddhologist to teach a university-level
Art · Art history · Martial arts · Visual arts · Classics · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 1991 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |