Religion and Nationalism in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367183424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str.

Giorgio Shani; Takashi Kibe

Opis

This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East, South and South East Asia.

Spis treści

Introduction: Legacies and Possibilities  1. Tagore and the Conception of Critical Nationalism  2. Midnight’s Children: Religion and Nationalism in South Asia  3. Articulations of Religiously-Motivated Nationalism within Philippine Catholicism: A Critical Assessment  4. Reconsidering the Relation between ‘Sectarianism’ and Nationalism in the Middle East  5. The Irony of Secular Nation-Building in Japanese Modernity: Inoue Kowashi and Fukuzawa Yukichi  6. Buddhism, Cosmology, and Great East Asian Co-prosperity Area: Multiculturalism and Nationalism in the Pre-war period Japan  7. Political modernity in East Asia: Religion, nationalism and subversion of imperialism  8. Religious Nationalism with Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotis  9. The Structural Problem of Religious Freedom in China: Towards a Confucian-Christian Synthesis  10. Augustine’s Critique of Religious Identity and Its Implications for the Chinese Church  11. Post-Chinese Reconnections through Religion: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism  12. Conclusion