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Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan : Awakening the World /
After the Communist victory in China's civil war, Taiwan-then governed by the KMT (or Nationalist Party)-became a focal point for both Buddhist and Christian activity in the Chinese world. Between the mid-1950s and 1970s, Buddhists responded to subsequent Christian growth on the island. This oc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Religion and Society in Asia Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Romanization and Translations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chinese Buddhism and identity
- The three teachings
- Buddhism and Christianity in China
- New intellectual and political responses
- Enter the KMT
- Modernity, and "KMT modernity"
- Taixu
- Overview of the study
- 1. Buddhism and Patriotism
- Taiwan's Political Context
- Buddhism and KMT Values
- Awakening the world
- Conclusion
- 2. Buddhism and Chinese Culture
- Cultural renaissance
- From Moses to Marx
- "Slave society"
- East of Eden
- The genesis of a new approach
- The study of Buddhism
- Conclusion
- 3. Buddhism and Modernity
- Pointing at the moon
- Open letters to Du
- The science of Sakyamuni
- God and Gotama
- Yinshun's sources
- Conclusion
- 4. Decline and Revitalization
- Perceiving the decline
- History as polemic
- From the temple to the ivory tower
- Conclusion
- 5. Sermons Among Mountains
- Dharma Drum Mountain
- Tzu Chi
- Buddha-Light Mountain
- Lingjiu Shan and Zhongtai Chansi
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Religious inter-connectivity
- Interfaith competition in Taiwan after 1949
- KMT modernity
- Interfaith competition and identity
- List of Chinese Characters
- Bibliography
- Index