Religion and the making of modern east Asia / Thomas David DuBois.

"Religion and religious ideas have played a fundamental role in the shaping of Asian history, society, and cultural practices. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and intersected...

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Superior document:New approaches to Asian history ; 8
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:New approaches to Asian history ; 8.
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Physical Description:xii, 259 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. In the beginning : religion and history
  • 2. Ming China : the fourteenth century's new world order
  • 3. The Buddha and the shogun in sixteenth-century Japan
  • 4. Opportunities lost : the failure of Christianity, 1550-1750
  • 5. Buddhism : incarnations and reincarnations
  • 6. Apocalypse now
  • 7. Out of the twilight : religion and the late nineteenth century
  • 8. Into the abyss : religion and the road to disaster during the early twentieth century
  • 9. Brave new world : religion in the reinvention of postwar Asia
  • 10. The globalization of Asian religion.