Japanese religions and globalization / / Ugo Dessi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792062203321
• Autore: Dessì Ugo.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-135-07575-1; 0-203-06661-8; 1-299-28048-X; 1-135-07576-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
• Collana: Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 200.952
• Soggetti: Globalization; Japan Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Deconstruction and the ethical in Asian thought / edited by Youru Wang -- Introduction to Daoist thought, action, language, and ethics in Zhuangzi / Eske Møllgaard -- Religious commodifications in Asia, marketing gods / edited by Pattana Kitiarsa -- Christianity and the state in Asia, complicity and conflict / edited by Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Christianity in contemporary China, socio-cultural perspectives / edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Buddha and religious diversity / J. Abraham Velez de Cea -- Japanese religions and globalization / Ugo Dessi.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shint?, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of globalization, and how they respond to these flows by shaping new glocal identities. The book highlights how, paradoxically, these processes of religious hybridization may be closely intertwined with the promotion of cultural chauvinism. It shows how on the one hand religion in Japan is en