Democracy's dharma
Subtitle: Asian religious revival and political progress in Taiwan
By: Richard Madsen.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520252271; 9780520252288
Subjects: Buddhism and politics -- Taiwan.; Buddhism -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The Taiwanese religious context; value: Tzu-chi: the modernization of Buddhist compassion; value: Buddha's Light Mountain: Buddhist contribution to democratic civil religion; value: Dharma Drum Mountain: transcendent meaning in a broken world; value: The Enacting Heaven Temple: hybrid modernity.