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" Casting faiths : "
edited by Thomas David DuBois.
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558228
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b387141
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Thomas David DuBois
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Casting faiths : : imperialism and the transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia\ edited by Thomas David DuBois.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,, ©2009.
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xi, 271 p. : ill., cartes, fichier PDF
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023023545X
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: 9780230235458
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In Palgrave connect.; Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 22 octobre 2010).
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| Contents
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Introduction: The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia : paradigmatic change in regional perspective / Thomas DuBois -- pt. I. Orientalism and the Western recasting of Buddhism. From thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism : constructions of religion and religious identity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Myanmar / Alexey Kirichenko -- Publishing Eastern Buddhism : D.T. Suzuki's journey to the West / Judith Snodgrass -- pt. II. Mission and meaning in Christianity. The education of Annie Howe : missionary transformations in late Meiji Japan / Roberta Wollons -- Idols and art : missionary attitudes toward indigenous worship and the material culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920 / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz -- The virgin heads south : northern Catholic refugees and their clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-1964 / Peter Hansen -- pt. III. State and religious ethnicity. The making of Islamic law : local elites and colonial authority in British Malaya / Iza Hussin -- Christian conversion and ethnic identity in East Kalimantan / Jennifer Connolly -- Recasting religion and ethnicity : tourism and socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005 / Donald S. Sutton and Xiaofei Kang -- pt. IV. New media and new religion. Japanese print media and Manchurian cultural community : religion in the pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906-1944 / Thomas DuBois -- Showing faith : exhibiting Ōmoto to consumers in early-twentieth-century Japan / Nancy Stalker -- Afterword: Questioning faith? : casting doubts / Oscar Salemink.
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Did European imperialism invent Asian religion? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission in East and Southeast Asia shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society. But as these essays show, Western ideas were not always imposed at gunpoint. In places like Burma or Indonesia, many of these changes wereDid European imperialism invent Asian religion? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission in East and Southeast Asia shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society. But as these essays show, Western ideas were not always imposed at gunpoint. In places like Burma or Indonesia, many of these changes wereDid European imperialism invent Asian religion? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission in East and Southeast Asia shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society. But as these essays show, Western ideas were not always imposed at gunpoint. In places like Burma or Indonesia, many of these changes were
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Palgrave connect.
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