Darwin, dharma, and the divine : evolutionary theory and religion in modern Japan /
'Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine' demonstrates that evolutionary theory was never passively accepted, but played active and controversial roles in modern Japanese thought.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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Collection: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The religious transmission of evolutionary theory in Meiji-era Japan
- Evolution, individuals, and the kokutai
- The dharma after Darwin : Meiji Buddhism and the embrace of evolution
- The promise of utopia : socialist Darwinism and evolutionary utopianism
- "Evolutionary theory is the superstition of modernity"
- Kannon's enduring embrace.