TY - BOOK ID - 23633523 TI - Routledge handbook of religion in Asia AU - Turner, Bryan S. AU - Salemink, Oscar AU - Routledge PY - 2015 SN - 9780415635035 9781315758534 9781317636441 9781317636458 9781138312678 1138312673 0415635039 PB - London ; New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Asia KW - Religion. KW - J1700 KW - K9050 KW - S13A/0200 KW - J1991 KW - Japan: Religion -- general and history KW - Korea: Religion -- general and history KW - China: Religion--General works KW - Asia: Religion KW - Asia - Religion. KW - Japan: Religion in general UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23633523 AB - "The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of religion in contemporary Asia. Compiled and introduced by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink, the Handbook contains specially written chapters by experts in their respective fields. The wide-ranging introduction discusses issues surrounding Orientalism and the historical development of the discipline of Religious Studies. It conveys how there has been many centuries of interaction between different religious traditions in Asia and discusses the problem of world religions and the range of concepts, such as high and low traditions, folk and formal religions, popular and orthodox developments. Individual chapters are presented in the following five sections: Asian Origins: religious formations Missions, States and Religious Competition Reform Movements and Modernity Popular Religions Religion and Globalization: social dimensions Striking a balance between offering basic information about religious cultures in Asia and addressing the complexity of employing a western terminology in societies with radically different traditions, this advanced level reference work will be essential reading for students, researchers and scholars of Asian Religions, Sociology, Anthropology, Asian Studies and Religious Studies" ER -