Buddhist Modernities - Re-Inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World

This book advances research on Buddhist modernism by attempting to clarify the highly diverse ways in which Buddhist faith, thought, and practice have developed in the modern age, both in Buddhist heartlands in Asia and in the West. It presents a collection of case studies that, taken together, demonstrate how Buddhist traditions interact with m

Sommario

1 Buddhist Modernities: Modernism and its Limits

Mark Teeuwen

Part 1: Early Meetings with Modernity

2 The Scope and Limits of Secular Buddhism: Watanabe Kaikyoku (1868-1912) and the Japanese New Buddhist "Discovery of Society"
James Mark Shields

3 Buddhism and the Capitalist Transformation of Modern Japan: Sada Kaiseki (1818-1882), Uchiyama Gud¿ (1874-1911), and It¿ Sh¿shin (1876-1963)
Fabio Rambelli

4 Parsing Buddhist Modernity in Republican China: Ten Contrasting Terms
Justin R. Ritzinger

5 Seeking the Colonizer's Favours for a Buddhist Vision: the Korean Buddhist Nationalist Paek Yongs¿ng's (1864-1940) Imje S¿n Movement
Hwansoo Kim

Part 2: Revivals and Neo-Traditionalist Inventions

6 Buddhism in Contemporary Kalmykia: "Pure" Monasticism versus Challenges of Post-Soviet Modernity
Valeriya Gazizova

7 Buddhist Modernity and New-Age Spirituality in Contemporary Mongolia
Hanna Havnevik

8 Yumaism: A new Syncretic Religion among the Himalayan Limbus
Linda Gustavsson

Part 3: Contemporary Sangha-State Relations

9 Failed Secularisation, New Nationalism and Governmentality: The Rise of Buddhism in Post-Mao China
Koen Wellens

10 Militarized Masculinity with Buddhist Characteristics: Buddhist Chaplains and their Role in the South Korean Army
Vladimir Tikhonov

11 Re-Enchantment Restricted: Popular Buddhism and Politics in Vietnam Today
Aike P. Rots

12 "Buddhism Has Made Asia Mild..." - The Modernist Construction of Buddhism as Pacifism
Iselin Frydenlund

Part 4: Institutional Modernity

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Info autore

Hanna Havnevik is Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Oslo, Norway

Ute Hüsken is Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway

Mark Teeuwen is Professor of East Asia Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway

Vladimir Tikhonov is Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway

Koen Wellens is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway

Riassunto

This book advances research on Buddhist modernism by attempting to clarify the highly diverse ways in which Buddhist faith, thought, and practice have developed in the modern age, both in Buddhist heartlands in Asia and in the West. It presents a collection of case studies that, taken together, demonstrate how Buddhist traditions interact with m

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hanna (University of Oslo Havnevik, Hanna Husken Havnevik
• Con la collaborazione di: Hanna Havnevik (Editore), Havnevik Hanna (Editore), Ute Hüsken (Editore), Mark Teeuwen (Editore), Teeuwen Mark (Editore), Vladimir Tikhonov (Editore), Tikhonov Vladimir (Editore), Koen Wellens (Editore), Wellens Koen (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367878917
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87891-7
• Pagine: 302
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Religion
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Eastern, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Buddhism, Buddhist life & practice, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Buddhist life and practice, East Asian religions