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Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia.
Thomas DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and intersected.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | New Approaches to Asian History, 8.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Boxes, Figures, and Maps; Preface; 1 In the beginning: Religion and history; 2 Ming China: The fourteenth century's new world order; 3 The Buddha and the shogun 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 religionGlossary; Timeline of dynasties and major events; Suggestions for further reading; Index.