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Actaully I've done that already: here's what it was like:
www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n15/cann01_.html
But now I'm back on this side of the border on our annual visit to the
in-laws.
This must be about as far from the suibject of this list as it is possible
to get --- exceprt that I do find one grain of connection. I find visits to
temples in these parts most instructive, as at their best I suspect they
bring us closer to the 'experience' of medieval religion than much that
survives in the west. This is more true of Hong Kong and southern China in
general than where I am now, as traditional religion is more alive there.
But it is even truer of Tibet, where I have sometimes had to pinch myself
with the intensity of recognition of this or that pilgrim/ritual activity.
Not the detail so much as the spirit of it.
As for North Korea, as you can see it hermetically sealed and devoted to an
arcane theology with its own sacred sites and holy places, so perhaps it is
the post-Stalinist equivalent of one of the more severe Orders...
But I fear I am testing the patience of even the most light-handed
moderator.
Jon
>From: Susan Hoyle <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] bishops helping each other out
>Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:55:55 EDT
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>In a message dated 05/06/2006 12:46:05 GMT Daylight Time,
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><<Forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, or repeating others'
>material
>-
>I have a better- than-usual excuse, being currently in China within a few
>hundred yards from the North Korean border with a very slow connection and
>no ready source of information on medieval western religion!... apart from
>that in my head...>>
>
>I am a grandmother, but I do need teaching how to such these eggs. Many
>thanks.
>
>There was a BBC Radio 4 programme a year or so ago, with an intrepid
>reporter trying very hard to pass over the border into N Korea somewhere
>near where
>you are. Perhaps he wasn't so intrepid, because iirc he failed. Hope you
>have more luck, if that is your ambition....
>
>Susan
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