Religion and Orientalism in Asian studies / edited by Kiri Paramore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paramore, Kiri, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and the social sciences.

Asia--Study and teaching.

Asia.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Religion and the social sciences--Asia.

Religion and the humanities.

Religions.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

"Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has affected not only the methodologies, but also the disciplinary and regional arrangements of different Asian Studies fields over 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. The chapters of the book are integrated by shared themes that run through the past and present practice of Area studies, covering the role of state actors in originating Asian studies, the role of local scholarship in defining and developing it, and 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, are also covered. Each chapter deals with one regional sub-discipline in Asian studies and is authored by a leading scholar. Shared thematic approaches running through each essay serve to link scholarly approaches in the fields of Chinese studies, Japanese studies, Korean studies, South Asian studies and South East Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Religion in Southeast Asian studies / Ben Arps

Religion in the sociology and anthropology of India / Rowena Robinson

India and the making of Hinduism: the contribution of the Puras / Peter Bisschop

The study of Chinese religions in the social sciences: beyond the monotheistic assumption / Anna Sun

Coming to terms with religion in East Asia / T H Barrett

From field to text in the study of Chinese religion / Barend J. ter Haar

Religion in Korean studies: the case of historiography / Marion Eggert

The role of religion in European and North American Japanese studies / Hans Martin Kramer

Religion, secularism and the Japanese shaping of East Asian studies / Kiri Paramore

Christian-Muslim borderlands: from Eastern European studies to Central Eurasian studies / Christian Noack and Michael Kemper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Religion and Orientalism in Asian studies.

ISBN:

9781474289733

1474289738

OCLC:

938991916