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

ISBN-13: 9780367878917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 302 str.

Hanna Havnevik; Ute Husken; Mark Teeuwen

Opis

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

Recenzje

"The strength of the book lies in how the authors consistently emphasize the tangled global history of their subjects, detailing how Buddhism’s interaction with modernity and modernism is part of a multifaceted dialogue between actors from a variety of cultural backgrounds."
-Per Faxneld, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

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 Gudō (1874-1911), and Itō Shōshin (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 Yongsŏng’s (1864-1940) Imje Sŏn 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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O autorze

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