The role of religious culture for social progress in East Asian society / edited by Juan Francisco Martinez, Kwangsuk Yoo, and Brian Byrd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez, Juan Francisco, 1957- editor.

Yoo, Kwangsuk, editor.

Byrd, Brian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--East Asia.

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

x, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene : Pickwick Publications, 2023.

Summary:

"Religious culture is an important keyword for understanding rapidly changing East Asian society, especially China, Japan, and Korea. Despite the common influence of Confucian culture on these countries, each has shown a very different pattern of social progress in modern and postmodern times. Although surveys report a low ratio of religious identification and membership in this region, people in this area are religious in a different way from Western societies, and religious culture is closely related to political, economic, and social subsystems. A real force of changing East Asian society is not only political powers or economic classes, but also an invisible culture based on religious belief and practice. This book focuses on the dynamic relationship between social progress and religious culture, organization, or movements in each society since 1945."--Publisher website, accessed July 17, 2023.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1666721085

9781666721089

9781666730050

166673005X

OCLC:

1375523625

Publisher Number:

99994120643