Religious diversity in Asia /

Religious diversity in Asia /

The religious landscape in Asia has long been diverse, with various forms of syncretic traditions and pragmatic practices continuously having been challenged by centrifugal forces of differentiation. This anthology explores representations and managements of religious diversity in Japan, China, Sout...

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Other Authors: Borup, Jørn (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society; volume34.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Cultural pluralism.
Religions > Relations.
Asia > Religion.

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Call Number: BL1033 .R443 2020

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Tables and Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Jørn Borup and Marianne Q. Fibiger
  • Religious Diversities - Past and Present
  • Religious Diversity on the Korean Peninsula, Past and Present /
  • Don Baker
  • Religious Diversity in Japan /
  • Ugo Dessì
  • The Double-Layered Diversification of Religion in Post-Renovation Vietnam /
  • Chung Van Hoang
  • Identities
  • Some 'Side Effects' of Religious Diversity: Exploring Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular State /
  • Ayelet Harel-Shalev and Noa Levy
  • The Challenge of Diversity: Evangelical Missionaries and Ethno-Christianity in Reform Era Yunnan /
  • Gideon Elazar
  • From Syncretism to Split: Ethnographic Insights from a Socio-Religious Movement in India /
  • Santosh K. Singh
  • Education
  • Religious Diversity with Chinese Characteristics? Meanings and Implications of the Term 'Religious Diversity' in Contemporary Chinese Dissertations /
  • Yu Tao and Ed Griffith
  • How Religious Diversity Is Represented and Taught in Asian School Textbooks /
  • Satoko Fujiwara
  • Ritual
  • Worshipping Durga(s) Dasara, Durga Puja and the Dynamics of Goddess Worship in a Former Princely State in Odisha, India /
  • Uwe Skoda
  • Religious Diversity and Interreligious Contestations in Sri Lanka: The Encounter between Buddhism and Islam in the Galebandara Cult in Kurunagala /
  • Kalinga Tudor Silva
  • Diaspora
  • La Caridad, Oshún, and Kuan Yin in Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba /
  • Martin A. Tsang
  • Religious Diversity among Asians in Old Diasporas /
  • Jørn Borup and Marianne Q. Fibiger
  • Conclusion /
  • Lene Kühle
  • Back Matter
  • Index.