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Category Archives: religion
New Titles in Religion from UHP!
The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan
Asuka Sango
304 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3986-4 | $54.00
Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
Alicia Turner
240 pages | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3937-6 | $54.00
Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea
Albert L. Park
320 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3965-9 | $56.00
Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Later Imperial China
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Caodaism’s “Outrageous Syncretism” Incorporates Chinese, Buddhist, and Western Religions
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The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism
by Janet Alison Hoskins
February 2015 | 308 pages | 8 color and 17 b&w illustrations
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-4004-4 | $65.00
Paper | ISBN 978-0-8248-5140-8 | $32.00
Caodaism is a new religion born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, and now reshaping the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, Caodaism forces us to reconsider how anthropologists study religious mixtures in postcolonial settings. Its dynamics challenge the unconscious Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and conceptualized.
“This examination of the Caodai religious movement is easily the most comprehensive and sympathetic study yet prepared on what is surely the most fascinating yet also the most misunderstood of Vietnam’s ‘new’ (colonial and postcolonial) religions. The work engages critically with existing interpretations of the Caodai faith and ventures a new interpretation of its emergence as a reflexive re-synthesis of Vietnamese religious traditions—a self-defensive re-articulation of identity—in the context of colonial cultural and political domination, frustrated nationalism, diasporic dispersal, and transnational globalism. . . . In the hands of the author, this engaging, complex, and big-hearted Vietnamese religion at last has gained the sensitive and capable treatment it deserves.” —Philip Taylor, The Australian National University
Author Steven Heine talks about his title, Zen Koans
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Zen Koans
written by Steven Heine
2014 | 206 pages
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-3973-4 | $48.00
Paper | ISBN 978-0-8248-3974-1 | $17.00
Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
Buddhist networks amid political transition
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From Comrades to Bodhisattvas: Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice in Contemporary China
written by Gareth Fisher
2014 | 301 pages | 13 illustrations
Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8248-3966-6 | $50.00
Topics in Contemporary Buddhism
“From Comrades to Bodhisattvas reveals for the first time an important and rapidly developing aspect of Chinese religiosity—the rise of lay Buddhism, which takes place in the cracks of China’s strict system of religious control. Nothing in the current literature on Buddhism or on religion in China is comparable to Fisher’s important contribution. His fascinating findings include, for example, showing how a ‘karmic’ morality offers an alternative for people unhappy with the more utilitarian morality of connection-building that characterizes much of life in Beijing. Other sections show counter-intuitively how a nostalgia for some of the ideals of the Maoist period—a sense of community, a commitment to a kind of egalitarian fairness for all, a broadly shared sense of thrift and poverty—can combine with Buddhist ideals to create a critique of the current system.” —Robert P. Weller, Boston University
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