Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia ( New Approaches to Asian History )

Publication series ：New Approaches to Asian History

Author： Thomas David DuBois  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781139066273

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107008090

Subject： K3 Asian History

Keyword： 亚洲史

Language： ENG

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Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

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Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.

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Preface

1 In the beginning: Religion and history

2 Ming China: The fourteenth century’s new world order

I. Religious foundations of late imperial China

Confucianism

Daoism

Buddhism

Three become one

II. The emperor monk: Zhu Yuanzhang and the new Confucian state

3 The Buddha and the shogun in sixteenth-century Japan

I. Religious foundations of medieval Japan

II. Burning monks: The assault on Buddhism

4 Opportunities lost: The failure of Christianity, 1550–1750

I. The Society of Jesus comes to Asia

Japan

China

II. The roots of conflict and the long road home

Japan

China

5 Buddhism: Incarnations and reincarnations

I. Bodhisattvas and barbarians: Buddhism in Ming and Qing China

II. The gilded cage: Funerary Buddhism during the Tokugawa

III. Samurai and nothingness: Zen and the Japanese warrior elite

What is Zen?

So again, what is Zen?

6 Apocalypse now

I. Why the world keeps ending

II. The White Lotus: Six centuries of Chinese heresy, 1360–1860

7 Out of the twilight: Religion and the late nineteenth century

I. Fists of Justice and Harmony: Christian mission and the last stand of Chinese traditionalism

II. Kill the Buddha! Shinto and the new traditionalism of Meiji Japan

8 Into the abyss: Religion and the road to disaster during the early twentieth century

I. Toward Confucian fascism: China searches for direction

II. Spirit of the rising sun: Japanese religious militarism

9 Brave new world: Religion in the reinvention of postwar Asia

I. Opiate of the masses: Why Marxism opposes religion

II. The people’s faith: How religion survived China’s socialist paradise

III. The peace paradigm and search for meaning in Japan

10 The globalization of Asian religion

Glossary

Timeline of dynasties and major events

Suggestions for further reading

Index

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