Casting Faiths Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia

by DuBois, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780230221581
• ISBN10: 0230221580
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

How did European imperialism shape the ideas and practices of religion in East and Southeast Asia?Casting Faithsbrings 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. x
Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia-Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective	p. 1
Orientalism and the Western Recasting of Buddhism
From Thathanadaw to Therav&abar;da Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Myanmar	p. 23
Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D. T. Suzuki's Journey to the West	p. 46
Mission and Meaning in Christianity
The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late	p. 75
Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920	p. 105
The Virgin Heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-1964	p. 129
State and Religious Ethnicity
The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya	p. 155
Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan	p. 175
Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005	p. 190
New Media and New Religion
Japanese Print Media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906-1944	p. 217
Showing Faith: Exhibiting &Obar;moto to Consumers in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan	p. 239
Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts	p. 257
Index	p. 264
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