Routledge handbook of religions in Asia
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Routledge handbook of religions in Asia
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Routledge, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, this advanced level reference work will be essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of Asian Religions, Sociology, Anthropology, Asian Studies and Religious Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Constructing religion and religions in Asia
The Invention of Religions in East Asia
Revealing the Vedas in 'Hinduism': Foundations and Issues of Interpretations of Religion in South Asian Hindu Traditions
Dual Belief in Heaven and Spirits: The Metaphysical Foundation of Confucian Morality
Sikhism and its Changing Social Structure
Catholicism in India
The Localization of Roman Catholicism: Radical Transcendence and Social Empathy in a Philippine Town
The Spread of Islam in Asia through Trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth century)
Shinto's Modern Transformations: From Imperial Cult to Nature Worship
Islamic Reform in Asia
Engaged Buddhism in 1920s Japan: the Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace
Conversion in post-Mao China: from "Rice Christians" to "Cultural Christians"
Shamanism in Eurasia: A Mongolian case study in a comparative light
Chinese folk festivals
Popular Buddhism: Monks, Magic and Amulets
Spirit worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond
Popular Qigong and Transnational Falun Gong Inside and Outside Post-Mao China
Shrines, Religious Healing, and Pilgrimage in South Asia
Revitalised Sufism and the New Piety Movements in Islamic Southeast Asia
Reading Gender and Religion in East Asia: Family Formations and Cultural Transformations
Confucian Values and East Asian Capitalism: A Variable Weberian Trajectory
Religion and Asia's Middle Classes
Buddhism: modernization or globalization?
Hinduism and Globalization: Gurus, Yoga and Migration in Northern Europe
Internet and Religion in Asia
Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: Alternating Movements East-West of Spirituality, Reform and Militant Jihad
Asian Pentecostalism: Revivals, Mega-Churches, and Social Engagement
Religion, Religions and Modernization
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