Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36205-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Reihe: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion

* This Handbook has won the ICAS Edited Volume Accolade 2019. Brill warmly congratulates editors Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter and their authors with this award. *

A vibrant cauldron of new religious developments, East Asia (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam) presents a fascinating arena of related research for scholars across disciplines. Edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter, the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements provides the first comprehensive and reliable guide to explore the vast East Asian new religious panorama. Penned by leading scholars in the field, the assembled contributions render the Handbook an invaluable resource for those interested in the crucial new religious actors and trajectories of the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pokorny, Lukas

Winter, Franz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Romanisation and Style
List of Contributors

Introduction
1 East Asian New Religious Movements: Introductory Remarks
Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter

Part 1: Japanese New Religious Movements
2 Japanese New Religious Movements: An Introduction
Franz Winter
3 Tenrikyo
Barbara Rossetti Ambros and Timothy Smith
4 Omoto
Nancy K. Stalker
5 Perfect Liberty Kyodan
Monika Schrimpf
6 Seicho no Ie
Birgit Staemmler
7 Soka Gakkai
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
8 Sekai Kyuseikyo
Hideaki Matsuoka
9 Shinnyoen
Victoria Rose Montrose
10 Rissho Koseikai
Ugo Dessì
11 Sukyo Mahikari
Gregory Wilkinson
12 Aum Shinrikyo
Erica Baffelli
13 Kofuku no Kagaku
Franz Winter

Part 2: Korean New Religious Movements
14 Korean New Religious Movements: An Introduction
Lukas Pokorny
15 Tonghak/Ch’ondogyo
Paul L. Beirne and Carl F. Young
16 Taejonggyo
John Jorgensen
17 Wonbulgyo
Bongkil Chung
18 Unification Movement
Lukas Pokorny
19 Youido Sunbog’um Kyohoe
Hui-yeon Kim
20 Taesunjillihoe
John Jorgensen
21 Tan Woltu
Donald L. Baker

Part 3: Chinese New Religious Movements
22 Chinese New Religious Movements: An Introduction
Edward A. Irons
23 Yiguàn Dào
Philip Clart
24 Fójiào Cíjì Gongdé Huì
Yu-Shuang Yao
25 Fóguangshan
Marcus Günzel
26 Fagushan
Esther-Maria Guggenmos
27 Quánnéngshén Jiàohuì (Dongfang Shandiàn)
Emily Dunn
28 Falún Gong
Benjamin Penny

Über Autor(innen)

Lukas Pokorny, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor and Chair in Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna. He has published on new religious movements, millenarianism, and Confucianism. His present research focuses, among others, on ethnocentrism and millenarian beliefs in East Asian new religious movements.

Franz Winter, Ph.D. (1999 and 2005) and Habilitation (2010), is teaching Religious Studies at the University of Graz. His areas of research comprise, among others, the history of religious contact between Asia and Europe from Antiquity to the present and new religious movements.

Contributors are: Erica Baffelli, Donald L. Baker, Paul Beirne, Sergei Blagov, Pascal Bourdeaux, Bongkil Chung, Philip Clart, Ugo Dessì, Emily Dunn, Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, Esther-Maria Guggenmos, Marcus Günzel, Edward Irons, Jérémy Jammes, John Jorgensen, Hui-yeon Kim, Hideaki Matsuoka, Benjamin Penny, Victoria Rose Montrose, Barbara Rossetti Ambros, Monika Schrimpf, Timothy Smith, Birgit Staemmler, Nancy K. Stalker, Gregory Wilkinson, Yu-shuang Yao, Carl F. Young