Religion and Societies : : Asia and the Middle East / / ed. by Carlo Caldarola.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: AHMED, MUNIR D.,; AL-YASSINI, AYMAN S.,; BARCLAY, HAROLD Β.,; CALDAROLA, CARLO,; CHUNG, CHAI-SIK,; DESHEN, SHLOMO,; HIEBERT, PAUL G.,; HOWELL, JULIA D.,; KEDDIE, NIKKI R.,; MARDIN, ŞERIF,; MEANS, GORDON P.,; PONG, RAYMOND,; RAMBO, Α. TERRY,; SARAM, P. A.,; SASO, MICHAEL,; SCOTT, KEITH,
• HerausgeberIn: Caldarola, Carlo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-VIII
• Preface by the Series Editors
• Introductory Essay
• PART ONE: Middle East and Central Asia
• Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom of Islam
• Israel: Searching for Identity
• Egypt: Struggling with Secularization
• Sudan (North): On the Frontier of Islam
• Turkey: Islam and Westernization
• Iran: Religious Orthodoxy and Heresy in Political Culture
• Soviet Central Asia: A Religious Limbo
• PART TWO: South and Southwest Asia
• Pakistan: The Dream of an Islamic State
• India: The Politicization of a Sacred Society
• Sri Lanka: The Evolutionary Dialectics of a Buddhist State
• Thailand: A Sacred Society in Modern Garb
• Vietnam: Searching for Integration
• Malaysia: Islam in a Pluralistic Society
• Indonesia: Searching for Consensus
• PART THREE: East Asia
• China: Religion in a Revolutionary Society
• Taiwan: Old Gods and Modern Society
• Korea: The Continuing Syncretism
• Japan: Religious Syncretism in a Secular Society
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects