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The Modern Spirit of Asia : The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India / / Peter van der Veer



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Autore: van der Veer Peter Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Modern Spirit of Asia : The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India / / Peter van der Veer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 306.6095
Soggetto topico: China -- Religious life and customs
India -- Religious life and customs
Nationalism -- China -- Religious aspects
Nationalism -- India -- Religious aspects
Religion and sociology -- China
Religion and sociology -- India
Secularism -- China -- History
Secularism -- India -- History
Soggetto non controllato: Bangladesh
Chen Yingning
China
Chinese Muslims
Chinese modernity
Chinese spirituality
Christian conversion
Christianity
Friedrich Max Mller
Gandhi
India
Indian Muslims
Indian modernity
Indian nationalism
Indian spirituality
Islam
Jesuit efforts
Mughal Empire
Muslims
Pakistan
Pan-Asianism
Sacred Books of the East
Tagore
Taixu
Western imperial modernity
Western imperialism
Western society
anti-imperialism
globalization
heterodoxy
imperialism
industrialization
institutionalized religion
liberalization
liberation
magic
materialism
messianic movements
minoritization
missionary movements
modern vocabularies
modernity
modernizers
moralization
nation-state
national majority
oriental religion
oriental studies
popular religion
protonationalism
qi gong
religion
religious authority
scientific knowledge
secularism
secularity
secularization
society
sociology
spirituality
state formation
superstition
technological innovation
world religions
yoga
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Spirituality in Modern Society -- Chapter 3. The Making of Oriental Religion -- Chapter 4. Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities -- Chapter 5. Secularism's Magic -- Chapter 6. "Smash Temples, Build Schools": Comparing Secularism in India and China -- Chapter 7. The Spiritual Body -- Chapter 8. Muslims in India and China -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were used to translate the traditions of India and China. He traces how modern Western notions of religion and magic were incorporated into the respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity in China and India is by no means uniform. While religion is a centerpiece of Indian nationalism, it is viewed in China as an obstacle to progress that must be marginalized and controlled. The Modern Spirit of Asia moves deftly from Kandinsky's understanding of spirituality in art to Indian yoga and Chinese qi gong, from modern theories of secularism to histories of Christian conversion, from Orientalist constructions of religion to Chinese campaigns against magic and superstition, and from Muslim Kashmir to Muslim Xinjiang. Van der Veer, an outspoken proponent of the importance of comparative studies of religion and society, eloquently makes his case in this groundbreaking examination of the spiritual and the secular in China and India.
Titolo autorizzato: The Modern Spirit of Asia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4008-4855-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806927403321
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