Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere in China and Japan

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Welter, Albert (Editor), Newmark, Jeffrey (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Religion and Society in Asia Pacific
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Religion and sociology.; Ethnology > Asia.; Social history.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811024375
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2437-5
• Physical Description: IX, 259 p. 1 illus. online resource.

This collection examines the impact of East Asian religion and culture on the public sphere, defined as an idealized discursive arena that mediates the official and private spheres. It contends that the actors and agents on the fringes of society were the most instrumental in shaping the public sphe...