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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DuBois, Thomas David
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:	New Approaches to Asian History, 8.
Subjects:	Buddhism > Japan > History. Confucianism > China > History. Buddhism Confucianism Religion Japan > Religion. China > Religion. China Japan History
Online Access:	Click for online access

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.

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