Thomas David Dubois

Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and intersected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008090
• ISBN-10: 1107008093
• Artikelnr.: 32943223

Autorenporträt

Thomas David DuBois is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (2005) and the editor of Casting Faiths: Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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.