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Routledge handbook of religions in Asia / edited by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.Description: xiv, 449 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780415635035 (hbk)
  • 9781138312678 (pbk)
  • 9781315758534 (ebk)
Other title:
  • Handbook of religions in Asia
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.95  TUR
Contents:
Asian origins : religious formations Missions, states and religious competition Reform movements and modernity Popular religions Religion and globalization : social dimensions. Conclusion. Introduction: Constructing religion and religions in Asia / Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink. Asian Origins: Religious formations. 1. The invention of religions in East Asia / Jason Ananda Josephson 2. Revealing the Vedas in 'Hinduism': Foundations and issues of interpretations of religion in South Asian Hindu traditions / Andrea Marion Pinkney 3. Dual belief in Heaven and spirits: The metaphysical foundation of Confucian morality / Kwang-Kuo Hwang 4. Sikhism and its changing social structure / Surinder S. Jodhka and Kristina Myrvold. Missions, States and Religious Competition. 5. Catholicism in India / Thomas J. Csordas and Amrita Kurian 6. The localization of Roman Catholicism: Radical transcendence and social empathy in a Philippine town / Julius Bautista 7. The spread of Islam in Asia through trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth centuries) / Paul Wormser. Reform movements and modernity. 8. Shinto's modern transformations: From imperial cult to nature worship / Aike P. Rots 9. Islamic reform in Asia / Irfan Ahmad 10. Engaged Buddhism in 1920s Japan: The Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace / Judith Snodgrass 11. Conversion in post-Mao China: From 'rice Christians' to 'cultural Christians' / Sheng Yangwen. Popular religions. 12. Shamanism in Eurasia: A Mongolian case study in a comparative light / Morten Axel Pedersen 13. Chinese folk festivals / Thomas David DuBois 14. Popular Buddhism: Monks, magic and amulets / James Taylor 15. Spirit worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond / Oscar Salemink 16. Popular Qigong and transnational Falun Gong inside and outside post-Mao China / Scott Dalby 17. Shrines, religious healing, and pilgrimage in South Asia / Carla Bellamy 18. Revitalised Sufism and the new piety movements in Islamic Southeast Asia / Julia Day Howell. Religion and Globalization: Social dimensions. 19. Reading gender and religion in East Asia: Family formations and cultural transformation / Fang-Long Shih 20. Confucian values and East Asian capitalism: A variable Weberian trajectory / Jack Barbalet 21. Religion and Asia's middle classes / Daromir Rudnyckyj 22. Buddhism: Modernization or globalization? / Lionel Obadia 23. Hinduism and globalization: Gurus, yoga and migration in northern Europe / Knut A. Jacobsen 24. Internet and religion in Asia / Sam Han 25. Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: Alternating movements East-West of spirituality, reform and militant jihad / Pnina Werbner 26. Asian Pentecostalism: Revivals, mega-churches, and social engagement / Terence Chong and Daniel P.S. Goh. Conclusion. 27. Religion, religions and modernization / Bryan S. Turner

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Asian origins : religious formations
Missions, states and religious competition
Reform movements and modernity
Popular religions
Religion and globalization : social dimensions.
Conclusion.
Introduction: Constructing religion and religions in Asia / Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink.
Asian Origins: Religious formations. 1. The invention of religions in East Asia / Jason Ananda Josephson
2. Revealing the Vedas in 'Hinduism': Foundations and issues of interpretations of religion in South Asian Hindu traditions / Andrea Marion Pinkney
3. Dual belief in Heaven and spirits: The metaphysical foundation of Confucian morality / Kwang-Kuo Hwang
4. Sikhism and its changing social structure / Surinder S. Jodhka and Kristina Myrvold.
Missions, States and Religious Competition. 5. Catholicism in India / Thomas J. Csordas and Amrita Kurian
6. The localization of Roman Catholicism: Radical transcendence and social empathy in a Philippine town / Julius Bautista
7. The spread of Islam in Asia through trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth centuries) / Paul Wormser.
Reform movements and modernity. 8. Shinto's modern transformations: From imperial cult to nature worship / Aike P. Rots
9. Islamic reform in Asia / Irfan Ahmad
10. Engaged Buddhism in 1920s Japan: The Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace / Judith Snodgrass
11. Conversion in post-Mao China: From 'rice Christians' to 'cultural Christians' / Sheng Yangwen.
Popular religions. 12. Shamanism in Eurasia: A Mongolian case study in a comparative light / Morten Axel Pedersen
13. Chinese folk festivals / Thomas David DuBois
14. Popular Buddhism: Monks, magic and amulets / James Taylor
15. Spirit worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond / Oscar Salemink
16. Popular Qigong and transnational Falun Gong inside and outside post-Mao China / Scott Dalby
17. Shrines, religious healing, and pilgrimage in South Asia / Carla Bellamy
18. Revitalised Sufism and the new piety movements in Islamic Southeast Asia / Julia Day Howell.
Religion and Globalization: Social dimensions. 19. Reading gender and religion in East Asia: Family formations and cultural transformation / Fang-Long Shih
20. Confucian values and East Asian capitalism: A variable Weberian trajectory / Jack Barbalet
21. Religion and Asia's middle classes / Daromir Rudnyckyj
22. Buddhism: Modernization or globalization? / Lionel Obadia
23. Hinduism and globalization: Gurus, yoga and migration in northern Europe / Knut A. Jacobsen
24. Internet and religion in Asia / Sam Han
25. Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: Alternating movements East-West of spirituality, reform and militant jihad / Pnina Werbner
26. Asian Pentecostalism: Revivals, mega-churches, and social engagement / Terence Chong and Daniel P.S. Goh.
Conclusion. 27. Religion, religions and modernization / Bryan S. Turner

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