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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
From Thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Myanmar....Pages 23-45
Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D. T. Suzuki’s Journey to the West....Pages 46-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late Meiji Japan....Pages 75-104
Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904–1920....Pages 105-128
The Virgin Heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954–1964....Pages 129-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya....Pages 155-174
Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan....Pages 175-189
Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005....Pages 190-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Japanese Print Media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906–1944....Pages 217-238
Showing Faith: Exhibiting Ōmoto to Consumers in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan....Pages 239-256
Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts....Pages 257-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-271