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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Godart, G. Clinton (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
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.