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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paramore, Kiri, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and the humanities--Asia.

Religion and the humanities.

Religion and the social sciences--Asia.

Religion and the social sciences.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Religions--Asia.

Religions.

Asia--Study and teaching.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781474289764

1474289762

9781474289740

1474289746

9781474289757

1474289754

OCLC:

946610864