Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies
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Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies

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Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies

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Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is increasingly shaping, the study of religion. Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies looks into this symbiotic relationship – both in current practice, and in the modern histories of both Orientalism and Area Studies. Each chapter of the book deals with one regional sub-discipline in Asian Studies, covering Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, South Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and Central Eurasian Studies. The chapters are integrated by shared themes that run through the past and present practice of Asian Studies, covering the role of state actors in originating Area Studies, the role of local scholarship in defining and developing it, the interaction between humanities and social science approaches, debates over the dominance of Western and/or modern categories and frameworks, the interaction of past and present and the role of religious actors and religious sensibilities in shaping Asian Studies.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781350066526
eBook ISBN
9781474289757
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Buddhism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Religion in Southeast Asian Studies
  8. 2. Religion in the Sociology and Anthropology of India
  9. 3. India and the Making of Hinduism: The contribution of the Purāṇas
  10. 4. The Study of Chinese Religions in the Social Sciences: Beyond the Monotheistic Assumption
  11. 5. Coming to Terms with Religion in East Asia
  12. 6. From Field to Text in the Study of Chinese Religion
  13. 7. Religion in Korean Studies: The Case of Historiography
  14. 8. The Role of Religion in European and North American Japanese Studies
  15. 9. Religion, Secularism and the Japanese Shaping of East Asian Studies
  16. 10. Christian–Muslim Borderlands: From Eastern European Studies to Central Eurasian Studies
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Biographies for Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies
  20. Index