The Modern Spirit of Asia : : The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India /

The Modern Spirit of Asia : : The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India / / Peter van der Veer.

The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, explorin...

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van der Veer, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
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Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Chapter 1. Introduction --   |t Chapter 2. Spirituality in Modern Society --   |t Chapter 3. The Making of Oriental Religion --   |t Chapter 4. Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities --   |t Chapter 5. Secularism's Magic --   |t Chapter 6. "Smash Temples, Build Schools": Comparing Secularism in India and China --   |t Chapter 7. The Spiritual Body --   |t Chapter 8. Muslims in India and China --   |t Chapter 9. Conclusion --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were used to translate the traditions of India and China. He traces how modern Western notions of religion and magic were incorporated into the respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity in China and India is by no means uniform. While religion is a centerpiece of Indian nationalism, it is viewed in China as an obstacle to progress that must be marginalized and controlled. The Modern Spirit of Asia moves deftly from Kandinsky's understanding of spirituality in art to Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong, from modern theories of secularism to histories of Christian conversion, from Orientalist constructions of religion to Chinese campaigns against magic and superstition, and from Muslim Kashmir to Muslim Xinjiang. Van der Veer, an outspoken proponent of the importance of comparative studies of religion and society, eloquently makes his case in this groundbreaking examination of the spiritual and the secular in China and India. 
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650 0 |a Nationalism  |z India  |x Religious aspects. 
650 0 |a Religion and sociology  |z China. 
650 0 |a Religion and sociology  |z India. 
650 0 |a Secularism  |z China  |x History. 
650 0 |a Secularism  |z India  |x History. 
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653 |a Bangladesh. 
653 |a Chen Yingning. 
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653 |a Chinese Muslims. 
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653 |a Chinese spirituality. 
653 |a Christian conversion. 
653 |a Christianity. 
653 |a Friedrich Max Mller. 
653 |a Gandhi. 
653 |a India. 
653 |a Indian Muslims. 
653 |a Indian modernity. 
653 |a Indian nationalism. 
653 |a Indian spirituality. 
653 |a Islam. 
653 |a Jesuit efforts. 
653 |a Mughal Empire. 
653 |a Muslims. 
653 |a Pakistan. 
653 |a Pan-Asianism. 
653 |a Sacred Books of the East. 
653 |a Tagore. 
653 |a Taixu. 
653 |a Western imperial modernity. 
653 |a Western imperialism. 
653 |a Western society. 
653 |a anti-imperialism. 
653 |a globalization. 
653 |a heterodoxy. 
653 |a imperialism. 
653 |a industrialization. 
653 |a institutionalized religion. 
653 |a liberalization. 
653 |a liberation. 
653 |a magic. 
653 |a materialism. 
653 |a messianic movements. 
653 |a minoritization. 
653 |a missionary movements. 
653 |a modern vocabularies. 
653 |a modernity. 
653 |a modernizers. 
653 |a moralization. 
653 |a nation-state. 
653 |a national majority. 
653 |a oriental religion. 
653 |a oriental studies. 
653 |a popular religion. 
653 |a protonationalism. 
653 |a qi gong. 
653 |a religion. 
653 |a religious authority. 
653 |a scientific knowledge. 
653 |a secularism. 
653 |a secularity. 
653 |a secularization. 
653 |a society. 
653 |a sociology. 
653 |a spirituality. 
653 |a state formation. 
653 |a superstition. 
653 |a technological innovation. 
653 |a world religions. 
653 |a yoga. 
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