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Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (New Approaches to Asian History)

By Thomas David DuBois

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1107400406, 9781107400405, 1107008093, 9781107008090
Google Books ID
7NH4Jeh5QG4C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3867330 bytes)
Series
New Approaches to Asian History
Edition
1
Pages
273\273
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia, and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present day. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.

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