Religious Transformation in Modern Asia : A Transnational Movement.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Numen Book Series ; v.148 .
- Numen Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- List of Tables, Figures and Map -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Northeast Asia -- Chapter 1 Transcendence and the Mundane at the Edge of the Middle Kingdom: Protestantised and Pragmatic Tibetan Buddhism in Hong Kong -- Chapter 2 The Party Giveth, and the Party Taketh Away: Chinese Enigmatic Attitudes Towards Religion -- Chapter 3 From Manchuria to the Korean Peninsula: The Scottish Impact in Late Nineteenth Century Korea -- Chapter 4 Dangerous Women in the Early Catholic Church in Korea -- Chapter 5 Ise Jingū, Nōsatsu Kai and Indulgences: Pilgrims in Tokugawa Japan Viewed by Two Swedish Travellers -- Part 2 South Asia -- Chapter 6 Jalarām Bāpā: Miracles and Meaning in Nineteenth Century Gujarāt -- Chapter 7 The Impact of Modernisation Processes in the Himalayas: Tibetan and Nepalese Traditions in Transition? -- Chapter 8 Indian Astrology -- Part 3 Southeast Asia -- Chapter 9 Islamic Identity in the Secular Environment of Post-Colonial Indonesia -- Chapter 10 "Traditional" Modernity: A Vietnamese Response to French Colonialism as Revealed in the Great Mural of Đạo Cao Đài -- Chapter 11 Many in One: Malaysia's Religious Pluralism Driving Growth and Development -- Chapter 12 Changing Profiles: The Historical Development of Christianity in Singapore -- Chapter 13 The King and His Cult: Thailand's Monarch and the Religious Culture -- Index.
Religious Transformation in Modern Asia offers phenomenological glimpses of the religious transition in 18th to 20th centuries. The colonial experience of indigenous Asian people, as case studies, will be expounded in relation to the emergence of a new religion, Christianity.