Modernist Reformers in Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism, 1865-1935: Peripheral Geoculture in the Modern World-System

ISBN-13: 9781138187719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str.

Christian Lekon

Opis

This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad ‘Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda; for Confucianism, K’ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao.

 

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. Islam: Salafiyya, 2. Hinduism: Arya Samaj, 3. Confucianism: Kung-yang, 4. Centrist Liberalism, 5. Antisystemic Movements, 6. Positivism, Conclusion

O autorze

Christian Lekon received his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, he is lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.