van der Veer The Modern Spirit of Asia

The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4855-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van der Veer, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Spirituality in Modern Society 35
Chapter 3 The Making of Oriental Religion 63
Chapter 4 Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities 90
Chapter 5 Secularism's Magic 115
Chapter 6 "Smash Temples, Build Schools": Comparing Secularism in India and China 140
Chapter 7 The Spiritual Body 168
Chapter 8 Muslims in India and China 193
Chapter 9 Conclusion 214
Notes 231
Bibliography 253
Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.