| Description |
xi, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia : paradigmatic change in regional perspective / Thomas DuBois -- Pt. I. Orientalism and the Western recasting of Buddhism. From thathanadaw to Theravadˉa Buddhism : constructions of religion and religious identity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Myanmar / Alexey Kirichenko -- Publishing Eastern Buddhism : D.T. Suzuki's journey to the West / Judith Snodgrass -- Pt. II. Mission and meaning in Christianity. The education of Annie Howe : missionary transformations in late Meiji Japan / Roberta Wollons -- Idols and art : missionary attitudes toward indigenous worship and the material culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920 / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz -- The virgin heads south : northern Catholic refugees and their clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-1964 / Peter Hansen -- Pt. III. State and religious ethnicity. The making of Islamic law : local elites and colonial authority in British Malaya / Iza Hussin -- Christian conversion and ethnic identity in East Kalimantan / Jennifer Connolly -- Recasting religion and ethnicity : tourism and socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005 / Donald S. Sutton and Xiaofei Kang -- Pt. IV. New media and new religion. Japanese print media and Manchurian cultural community : religion in the pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906-1944 / Thomas DuBois -- Showing faith : exhibiting Omˉoto to consumers in early-twentieth-century Japan / Nancy Stalker -- Afterword: Questioning faith? : casting doubts / Oscar Salemink |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Religion and state -- East Asia.
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Religion and state -- Southeast Asia.
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Imperialism -- Religious aspects.
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Missions -- East Asia.
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Missions -- Southeast Asia.
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East Asians -- Religion -- Foreign influences.
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Southeast Asians -- Religion -- Foreign influences.
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| SUBJECT |
Far East http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040525 -- Religious life and customs.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603
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Asia, Southeastern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- Religious life and customs.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007603
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| Author |
DuBois, Thomas David, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2009464311 |
| ISBN |
9780230221581 hardback |
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0230221580 hardback |
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