ISBN:
978-0-415-63503-5
,
978-1-138-31267-8
,
978-1-315-758534/eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 449 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
first published in paperback
Series Statement:
Routledge Handbooks
Keywords:
Asien Südostasien
;
Religion
;
Glaube
;
Reformbewegung
;
Modernisierung
;
Globalisierung
;
Mission
Abstract:
The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective fields. The wide-ranging introduction discusses issues surrounding Orientalism and the historical development of the discipline of Religious Studies. It conveys how there have been many centuries of interaction between different religious traditions in Asia and discusses the problem of world religions and the range of concepts, such as high and low traditions, folk and formal religions, popular and orthodox developments. Individual chapters are presented in the following five sections: Asian Origins: religious formations Missions, States and Religious Competition Reform Movements and Modernity Popular Religions Religion and Globalization: social dimensions Striking a balance between offering basic information about religious cultures in Asia and addressing the complexity of employing a western terminology in societies with radically different traditions, ...
Description / Table of Contents:
Asian Origins: religious formations -- The invention of religions in East Asia / Jason Ananda Josephson -- Revealing the Vedas in 'Hinduism': foundations and issues of interpretations in South Asian Hindu traditions / Andrea Marion Pinkney -- Dual belief in Heaven and spirits: the metaphysical foundation of confucian morality / Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- Sikhism and its changing social structure / Surinder S. Jodhka and Kristina Myrvold -- Catholicism in India / Thomas J. Csordas and Amrita Kurian -- The localization of Roman Catholicism: radical transcendence and social empathy in a Philippine town / Julius Bautista -- The spread of Islam in Asia through trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth centuries) / Paul Wormser -- Reform Moverment and modernity -- Shinto's modern transformations: from imperial cult to nature worship / Aike P. Rots -- Islamic reform in Asia / Irfan Ahmad -- Engaged Buddhism in 1920's Japan: the Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace / Judith Snodgrass -- Conversion in post-Mao China: from 'rice Christians' to 'cultural Christians' / Zheng Yangwen -- Popular Religions -- Shamanism in Eurasia: a Mongolian case study in comparitive light / Morten Axel Pedersen -- Chinese folk festivals / Thomas David DuBois -- Popular Buddhism: monks, magic, and amulets / James Taylor -- Spirit Worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond / Oscar Salemink -- Popular Qigong and transnational Falun Gong inside an outside post-mao China / Scott Dalby -- Shrines, religious helaing, and pilgrimage in South Asia / Carla Bellamy -- Revitalised Sufism and the new piety movements in Islamic Southeast Asia / Julia Day Howell -- Religion and globalization: social dimensions -- Reading gender and religion in East Asia: family formations and cultural transformations / Fang-Long Shih -- Confucian values and East Asian capitalism: a variable Weberian trajectory / Jack Barbalet -- Religion and Asia's middle classes / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Buddhism: modernization or globalization? / Lionel Obadia -- Hinduism and globalization: gurus, yoga and migration in northern Europe / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Internet and religion in Asia / Sam Han -- Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: alternating movements East-West of spirituality, reform and militant jihad / Pnina Werbner -- Asian Pentecostalism: revivals, mega-churches, and social engagement / Terence Chong and Daniel P.S. Goh -- Religion, religions, and modernization / Bryan S. Turner.
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