Contents

Volume Introduction

Section 1 Religion and the Order of Knowledge

Introduction to Section 1

1.01 Anonymous: Which One Is the Right Religion for China’s Future? (China, 1905)

1.02 Ouyang Jingwu: Buddhism Is neither Religion nor Philosophy but What the Present Generation Is in Need of (China, 1922)

1.03 Yaroe (Nightthunder) alias Yi Tonhwa: [On] the Necessity of Reform of Religion (Korea, 1920)

1.04 Gendun Chopel: Grains of Gold—Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveller (Tibet, 1941)

1.05 Chaophraya Thiphakorawong: A Book on Various Things (Thailand, 1867)

1.06 Swami Vivekananda: Reason and Religion (England, 1896)

1.07 Muhammad Iqbal: Is Religion Possible? (Pakistan, 1932)

1.08 Yūsuf al-Nabhānī: Poem of the Short ‘R’ in Defaming Innovation and Praising the Esteemed Tradition (Lebanon, 1908/09)

1.09 Ḥusayn al-Jisr al-Ṭarābulusī: The Hamidian Treatise (Lebanon, 1888)

1.10 Muḥammad ʿAbduh: The Theology of Unity (Egypt, 1898)

1.11 Necmeddīn ʿĀrif: Studying in Paris (Egypt, 1904/05)

1.12 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled—A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (United States, 1877)

1.13 Ludwig Ankenbrand: Buddhism and the Modern Reform Efforts (Germany, 1911)

1.14 Rowland Williams: Christianity and Hinduism (England, 1856)

Section 2 Religion, Culture and Power

Introduction to Section 2

2.01 Kang Youwei: Report to the Throne, with a Petition for Fixing through Consultation a Law Concerning Religious Cases [. . .] (China, 1898)

2.02 Shimaji Mokurai: Petition in Criticism of the Three Articles of Instruction (Japan, 1872)

2.03 Haji Omar Said Tjokroaminoto: Islam and Socialism (Indonesia, 1924/1963)

2.04 Muhammad Iqbal: Presidential Address to the 25th Annual Session of the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad (India, 1930)

2.05 Dayānanda Sarasvatī: The Light of Truth (India, 1884)

2.06 Rashīd Riḍā: Introduction to the First Annual Volume of al-Manār (Egypt, 1909)

2.07 Moḥammad Ḥoseyn Na ʾīnī: Government from the Perspective of Islam (Iran, 1909)

2.08 George B. Nutting: Letter to the Missionary Herald (Turkey, 1860) and Baha Said Bey: Alevi Communities in Turkey—(Turkey, 1926)

2.09 Aḥad haAm: Slavery within Freedom (Russia, 1891)

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)

Section 3 The Transformative Power of the Religious Marketplace

Introduction to Section 3

3.01 Pak Ŭnsik: On Renewing Confucianism (Korea, 1909)

3.02 Watanabe Kaigyoku: The Hopes of Buddhists for the Peace Conference (Japan, 1918)

3.03 Shaku Sōen: Strenuous Endeavors (Japan, 1912)

3.04 R. G. Bhandarkar: The Basis of Theism and its Relation to the So-Called Revealed Religions (India, 1883)

3.05 Ghulām Aḥmad al-Qādiyānī: The Messiah of the Christians—Peace upon Him—in India (India, 1908)

3.06 ʿAbbās Afandī ʿAbd al-Bahāʾ: Treatise on Civilisation (Iran, 1875)

3.07 Speech to the Former French Prime Minister Joseph Caillaux on the Occasion of His Stay in Beirut in May 1912, Written by Members of the Masonic Lodge Le Liban (Lebanon, 1912)

3.08 Henry Steel Olcott: The Buddhist Catechism (India, 1881/1908)

3.09 Hermann Cohen: Germanness and Judaism (Germany, 1916)

3.10 Max Müller: Chips from a German Workshop (England, 1867)

3.11 Carrying the Gospel to All the Non-Christian World (Resolution of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh) (Scotland, 1910)

Index