Buddhist Modernities

Hanna Havnevik is Professor of the History of Religion at the University of Oslo, Norway Ute Hüsken is Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway Mark Teeuwen is Professor of East Asia Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway Vladimir Tikhonov is Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway Koen Wellens is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway

1 Buddhist Modernities: Modernism and its Limits

Mark Teeuwen

Part 1: Early Meetings with Modernity

2 The Scope and Limits of Secular Buddhism: Watanabe Kaikyoku (1868-1912) and the Japanese New Buddhist "Discovery of Society"

James Mark Shields

3 Buddhism and the Capitalist Transformation of Modern Japan: Sada Kaiseki (1818-1882), Uchiyama Gudō (1874-1911), and Itō Shōshin (1876-1963)

Fabio Rambelli

4 Parsing Buddhist Modernity in Republican China: Ten Contrasting Terms

Justin R. Ritzinger

5 Seeking the Colonizer’s Favours for a Buddhist Vision: the Korean Buddhist Nationalist Paek Yongsŏng’s (1864-1940) Imje Sŏn Movement

Hwansoo Kim

Part 2: Revivals and Neo-Traditionalist Inventions

6 Buddhism in Contemporary Kalmykia: "Pure" Monasticism versus Challenges of Post-Soviet Modernity

Valeriya Gazizova

7 Buddhist Modernity and New-Age Spirituality in Contemporary Mongolia

Hanna Havnevik

8 Yumaism: A new Syncretic Religion among the Himalayan Limbus

Linda Gustavsson

Part 3: Contemporary Sangha-State Relations

9 Failed Secularisation, New Nationalism and Governmentality: The Rise of Buddhism in Post-Mao China

Koen Wellens

10 Militarized Masculinity with Buddhist Characteristics: Buddhist Chaplains and their Role in the South Korean Army

Vladimir Tikhonov

11 Re-Enchantment Restricted: Popular Buddhism and Politics in Vietnam Today

Aike P. Rots

12 "Buddhism Has Made Asia Mild…" – The Modernist Construction of Buddhism as Pacifism

Iselin Frydenlund

Part 4: Institutional Modernity

13 Family, Gender and Modernity in Japanese Shin Buddhism

Jessica Starling

14 Theravāda Nuns in the USA: Modernization and Tradition

Ute Hüsken

15 Some Reflections on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Monastic Code for the 21st Century

Jens W. Borgland

16 Modernizing American Zen through Scandal: Is "The Way" Really the Way?

Stuart Lachs