Religious dynamics under the impact of imperialism and colonialism : : a sourcebook / / edited by Bjorn Bentlage [and three others].

• Superior document: Numen Book Series, Volume 154
• TeilnehmendeR: Bentlage, Björn, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 154.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (574 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

This sourcebook offers rare insights into a formative period in the modern history of religions. Throughout the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when commercial, political and cultural contacts intensified worldwide, politics and religions became ever more entangled. This volume offers a wide range of translated source texts from all over Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, thereby diminishing the difficulty of having to handle the plurality of involved languages and backgrounds. The ways in which the original authors, some prominent and others little known, thought about their own religion, its place in the world and its relation to other religions, allows for much needed insight into the shared and analogous challenges of an age dominated by imperialism and colonialism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Volume Introduction / Marion Eggert -- Introduction to Section 1 / Björn Bentlage -- 1.01 Anonymous: Which One Is the Right Religion for China’s Future? (China, 1905) / Heiner Roetz -- 1.02 Ouyang Jingwu: Buddhism Is neither Religion nor Philosophy but What the Present Generation Is in Need of (China, 1922) / Gotelind Müller -- 1.03 Yaroe (Nightthunder) alias Yi Tonhwa: [On] the Necessity of Reform of Religion (Korea, 1920) / Andreas Müller-Lee -- 1.04 Gendun Chopel: Grains of Gold—Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveller (Tibet, 1941) / Donald S. Lopez -- 1.05 Chaophraya Thiphakorawong: A Book on Various Things (Thailand, 1867) / Sven Trakulhun -- 1.06 Swami Vivekananda: Reason and Religion (England, 1896) / Torkel Brekke -- 1.07 Muhammad Iqbal: Is Religion Possible? (Pakistan, 1932) / Aslam Syed -- 1.08 Yūsuf al-Nabhānī: Poem of the Short ‘R’ in Defaming Innovation and Praising the Esteemed Tradition (Lebanon, 1908/09) / Amal Ghazal -- 1.09 Ḥusayn al-Jisr al-Ṭarābulusī: The Hamidian Treatise (Lebanon, 1888) / Björn Bentlage -- 1.10 Muḥammad ʿAbduh: The Theology of Unity (Egypt, 1898) / Johann Büssow -- 1.11 Necmeddīn ʿĀrif: Studying in Paris (Egypt, 1904/05) / Leyla von Mende -- 1.12 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled—A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (United States, 1877) / Gauri Viswanathan -- 1.13 Ludwig Ankenbrand: Buddhism and the Modern Reform Efforts (Germany, 1911) / Jörg Albrecht -- 1.14 Rowland Williams: Christianity and Hinduism (England, 1856) / Paul Hedges -- Introduction to Section 2 / Stefan Reichmuth -- 2.01 Kang Youwei: Report to the Throne, with a Petition for Fixing through Consultation a Law Concerning Religious Cases [. . .] (China, 1898) / Heiner Roetz -- 2.02 Shimaji Mokurai: Petition in Criticism of the Three Articles of Instruction (Japan, 1872) / Hans Martin Krämer -- 2.03 Haji Omar Said Tjokroaminoto: Islam and Socialism (Indonesia, 1924/1963) / Al Makin -- 2.04 Muhammad Iqbal: Presidential Address to the 25th Annual Session of the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad (India, 1930) / Aslam Syed -- 2.05 Dayānanda Sarasvatī: The Light of Truth (India, 1884) / Dermot Killingley -- 2.06 Rashīd Riḍā: Introduction to the First Annual Volume of al-Manār (Egypt, 1909) / Stefan Reichmuth -- 2.07 Moḥammad Ḥoseyn Na ʾīnī: Government from the Perspective of Islam (Iran, 1909) / Katajun Amirpur -- 2.08 George B. Nutting: Letter to the Missionary Herald (Turkey, 1860) and Baha Said Bey: Alevi Communities in Turkey—(Turkey, 1926) / Markus Dressler -- 2.09 Aḥad haAm: Slavery within Freedom (Russia, 1891) / Valentina Munz -- 2.10 Paul de Lagarde: On the Relationship of the German State to Theology, Church and Religion—An Attempt at Orientation for Non-Theologians (Germany, 1873) / Elisabeth Hollender and Knut Martin Stünkel -- Introduction to Section 3 / Hans Martin Krämer -- 3.01 Pak Ŭnsik: On Renewing Confucianism (Korea, 1909) / Marion Eggert -- 3.02 Watanabe Kaigyoku: The Hopes of Buddhists for the Peace Conference (Japan, 1918) / John S. LoBreglio -- 3.03 Shaku Sōen: Strenuous Endeavors (Japan, 1912) / Helen A. Findley.