From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

New Religion (9)—Evangelists Abroad

A year ago on Round and Square (8 May 2012)—Flowers Bloom: Shakespeare's Politics
Click here for the introduction to this series of "Religion in Modern China" posts.
[a] Sacred mountain of the west (華山/华山) RL
My new (weekly) column on the UK website "New Religion—Religion, Politics, Analysis" is up. This week, we leave the world of yin-yang, five-phase cosmology and put our feet back on solid ground. William Edgar Geil (1865-1925) treks through Africa, the south Pacific, down the Yangzi River, along the Great Wall of China, and up-and-down the five sacred mountains. Mr. Geil wouldn't have gotten very far down any of these paths without the help of missionaries who knew the language, local customs, and all sorts of things that, well, he didn't. How did they get there? That's what this column is all about.
 

[b] Geil (Africa, 1903) DHS

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Thinking in Fives 
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