Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History write by David W. Kim. This book was released on 2018-10-12. Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The localisation of a region, group, or culture was a common social phenomenon in pre-modern Asia, but global colonialism began to affect the lifestyle of local people. What was the political condition of the relationship between insiders and outsiders? The impact of colonial authorities over religious communities has not received significant attention, even though the Asian continent is the home of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Shintoism, and Shamanism. Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition. It uses the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation. The contributors interpret the growth of new religions as another facet of counter-colonialism. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people throughout Asian history.
Religious Transformation in Modern Asia
Religious Transformation in Modern Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Transformation in Modern Asia write by . This book was released on 2015-02-24. Religious Transformation in Modern Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the religious transformation of each nation in modern Asia. When the Asian people, who were not only diverse in culture and history, but also active in performing local traditions and religions, experienced a socio-political change under the wave of Western colonialism, the religious climate was also altered from a transnational perspective. Part One explores the nationals of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, focusing on the manifestations of Japanese religion, Chinese foreign policy, the British educational system in Hong Kong in relation to Tibetan Buddhism, the Korean women of Catholicism, and the Scottish impact in late nineteenth century Korea. Part Two approaches South Asia through the topics of astrology, the works of a Gujarātī saint, and Himalayan Buddhism. The third part is focused on the conflicts between ‘indigenous religions and colonialism,’ ‘Buddhism and Christianity,’ ‘Islam and imperialism,’ and ‘Hinduism and Christianity’ in Southeast Asia.
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea write by David W. Kim. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. East Asian nations shared a similar environment of modernisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. None had been colonised under Western imperialism, but all of them commonly became subjected to new authorities, whether directly or indirectly. This change of the political landscape also challenged religious communities, as many new religious movements (NRMs) emerged to satisfy the spiritual needs of local people in overcoming the hardship of transition. This book presents the unique case of a native Korean NRM which successfully survived, transformed, and was transmitted even into contemporary society. Among Donghak (later called Cheondogyo), Daejonggyo, and Wonbulgyo, the history of Daesoon Jinrihoe derived from the Jeungsan movement is explored here in the context of functionalism, even though the perspectives of religious philosophy and personal experiences are also regarded for the receptive and syncretic relationship with other groups. The book offers significant insight that conservative nationalistic NRMs can still survive in a digital era, rather than disappear after the death of their founders.
Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia
Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia write by Anne Murphy. This book was released on 2012-03-12. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.
Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia
Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia write by Thomas David DuBois. This book was released on 2011-04-18. Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.
