02554oam 2200481 450 991080006530332120240131144407.01-135-07575-10-203-06661-81-299-28048-X1-135-07576-X10.4324/9780203066614 (OCoLC)837891566(MiFhGG)GVRL8PTT(EXLCZ)99256000000009935020120810d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrJapanese religions and globalization /Ugo DessiAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ;7Description based upon print version of record.1-138-93488-7 0-415-81170-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 enRoutledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ;7.GlobalizationJapanReligionGlobalization.200.952Dessì Ugo.603107MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910800065303321Japanese religions and globalization3873874UNINA