Religion and the making of modern East Asia
"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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
New approaches to Asian history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38421902*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. In the beginning : religion and history
- 2. Ming China : the fourteenth century's new world order
- 3. The Buddha and the shōgun 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.
