Casting Faiths: Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective......Page 14
Part I: Orientalism and the Western Recasting of Buddhism......Page 34
2 From Thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Myanmar......Page 36
3 Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D. T. Suzuki\'s Journey to the West......Page 59
Part II: Mission and Meaning in Christianity......Page 86
4 The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late Meiji Japan......Page 88
5 Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904–1920......Page 118
6 The Virgin Heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954–1964......Page 142
Part III: State and Religious Ethnicity......Page 166
7 The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya......Page 168
8 Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan......Page 188
9 Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005......Page 203
Part IV: New Media and New Religion......Page 228
10 Japanese Print Media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906–1944......Page 230
11 Showing Faith: Exhibiting Ōmoto to Consumers in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan......Page 252
Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts......Page 270
C......Page 277
E......Page 278
I......Page 279
M......Page 280
P......Page 281
S......Page 282
W......Page 283
Z......Page 284