Casting faiths
Subtitle: imperialism and the transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Thomas David DuBois.
Contributors: DuBois, Thomas David, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230221581
Subjects: Religion and state -- East Asia; Religion and state -- Southeast Asia; Imperialism -- Religious aspects; Missions -- East Asia; Missions -- Southeast Asia; East Asians -- Religion -- Foreign influences; Southeast Asians -- Religion -- Foreign influences; Imperialisme; Godsdiensten; Transformatie; East Asia -- Religious life and customs; Southeast Asia -- Religious life and customs; Oost-Azië; Zuidoost-Azië
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia : paradigmatic change in regional perspective / Thomas DuBois; title: Pt. I. Orientalism and the Western recasting of Buddhism. From thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism : constructions of religion and religious identity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Myanmar / Alexey Kirichenko; title: Publishing Eastern Buddhism : D.T. Suzuki's journey to the West / Judith Snodgrass; title: Pt. II. Mission and meaning in Christianity. The education of Annie Howe : missionary transformations in late Meiji Japan / Roberta Wollons; title: Idols and art : missionary attitudes toward indigenous worship and the material culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920 / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz; title: The virgin heads south : northern Catholic refugees and their clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-1964 / Peter Hansen; title: Pt. III. State and religious ethnicity. The making of Islamic law : local elites and colonial authority in British Malaya / Iza Hussin; title: Christian conversion and ethnic identity in East Kalimantan / Jennifer Connolly; title: Recasting religion and ethnicity : tourism and socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005 / Donald S. Sutton and Xiaofei Kang; title: Pt. IV. New media and new religion. Japanese print media and Manchurian cultural community : religion in the pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906-1944 / Thomas DuBois; title: Showing faith : exhibiting Ōmoto to consumers in early-twentieth-century Japan / Nancy Stalker; title: Afterword: Questioning faith? : casting doubts / Oscar Salemink.