New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History

David W. Kim is associate professor of Asian history, College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul and visiting fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra.

Foreword by Eileen Barker

Acknowledgments



List of Figures



Introduction

David W. Kim

Part One: West, South, and Southeast Asia



The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat: A New Religious Movement Derived from Islam? Lauren Dover



Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Art of Living and the International Association for Human Values

Catharine Dada



The Radhasoami Satsang: A New Religion between Mysticism and Social Service

Fabio Scialpi



When New is Not-So-New: On the Meaning of “Modern” in a New Tibetan Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition

Lionel Obadia



The Thánh Ngôn Hiệp Tuyển: Translating and Understanding the Central Scripture of Caodaism

Christopher Hartney

Part Two: East Asia



The Filial Sectarian: Confucian Values and Popular Sects in Late Imperial China and Modern Taiwan

Nikolas Broy



International Moral Association (IMA): A Chinese New Religious Movement in Modern Korea

David W. Kim



The (New) Religious Dimensions of Juche-Kimilsungism

Emma Leverton



Dislocating Sōka Gakkai International: The Case of Sōka Gakkai International-Czech Republic

Petra Tlčimuková



Scriptures and Their Restoration: A Case Study of Tenrikyō

Jiro Sawai



Aum Shinrikyō: Millenarianism, Anti-Semitism, and Fundamentalism

Leonardo Sacco

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