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

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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Welter, Albert (Editor), Newmark, Jeffrey (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesReligion and Society in Asia Pacific
Subjects
Culture > Study and teaching.
Religion and sociology.
Ethnology > Asia.
Social history.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811024375
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-2437-5
Physical DescriptionIX, 259 p. 1 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The East Asian Public Sphere
  • The Sphere of Privilege: Confucian Culture and the Administration of Buddhism (and Religion) in China
  • Conservative and Progressive Models for Buddhism under the Republic of China
  • Islamic Charity in China: Its Organizations and Activities in a New Era
  • "Knowing the [Confucian] Way" and the Political Sphere
  • A Self-Made Outlier in the Tokugawa Public Sphere: Ōshio Heihachirō and His 1837 Osaka Riot
  • Longing for the Ideal World: An Unofficial Religious Association in the Late Tokugawa Public Sphere
  • Religious Minorities and the Public Sphere: Kagawa Toyohiko and Christian "Counterpublics" in Modern Japanese Society
  • Truths Unacknowledged: The Public Sphere and Japan's Colonial Project in Korea
  • The East Asian Public Sphere: Concluding Remarks and Theoretical Considerations.

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