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Casting Faiths

Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia

  • Thomas David DuBois
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective

    1. Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective
      Thomas DuBois
      Pages 1-19

  3. Orientalism and the Western Recasting of Buddhism

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 21-21
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    2. From Thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Myanmar
      Alexey Kirichenko
      Pages 23-45
    3. Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D. T. Suzuki’s Journey to the West
      Judith Snodgrass
      Pages 46-72

  4. Mission and Meaning in Christianity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late Meiji Japan
      Roberta Wollons
      Pages 75-104
    3. Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904–1920
      Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
      Pages 105-128
    4. The Virgin Heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954–1964
      Peter Hansen
      Pages 129-151

  5. State and Religious Ethnicity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya
      Iza Hussin
      Pages 155-174
    3. Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan
      Jennifer Connolly
      Pages 175-189
    4. Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005
      Donald S. Sutton, Xiaofei Kang
      Pages 190-214

  6. New Media and New Religion

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 215-215
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    2. Japanese Print Media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906–1944
      Thomas DuBois
      Pages 217-238
    3. Showing Faith: Exhibiting Ōmoto to Consumers in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan
      Nancy Stalker
      Pages 239-256
    4. Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts
      Oscar Salemink
      Pages 257-263
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 264-271
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About this book

Introduction

How did European imperialism shape the ideas and practices of religion in East and Southeast Asia? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society.

Keywords

imperialism Indonesia Japan law material culture media socialism Vietnam

Editors and affiliations

  • Thomas David DuBois
    • 1
  1. 1.National University of SingaporeSingapore

About the editors

THOMAS DUBOIS is Associate Professor of History at National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Hawaii, 2005), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, East Asian History, History and Theory, and the Law and History Review.

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