Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Committee on Religion at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and concurrently Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. He was the research leader on globalization and religion in the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2005-9) and the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (2009-10). He edited the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (2009) and he is the editor of the Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series. He was awarded a doctorate of letters by the University of Cambridge in 2009. Oscar Salemink is Professor in the Anthropology of Asia at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam. His current research concerns religious and ritual practice in everyday life in Vietnam and the East and Southeast Asian region. Recent publications The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders (2003); The Development of Religion, the Religion of Development (2004) and A World of Insecurity: Anthropological perspectives on human security (2010).

Introduction: Constructing religion and religions in Asia



The Invention of Religions in East Asia



Revealing the Vedas in ‘Hinduism’: Foundations and Issues of Interpretations of Religion in South Asian Hindu Traditions



Dual Belief in Heaven and Spirits: The Metaphysical Foundation of Confucian Morality



Sikhism and its Changing Social Structure



Catholicism in India



The Localization of Roman Catholicism: Radical Transcendence and Social Empathy in a Philippine Town



The Spread of Islam in Asia through Trade and Sufism (ninth-nineteenth century)



Shinto’s Modern Transformations: From Imperial Cult to Nature Worship



Islamic Reform in Asia



Engaged Buddhism in 1920s Japan: the Young East mission for social reform, global Buddhism and world peace



Conversion in post-Mao China: from "Rice Christians" to "Cultural Christians"



Shamanism in Eurasia: A Mongolian case study in a comparative light



Chinese folk festivals



Popular Buddhism: Monks, Magic and Amulets



Spirit worship and possession in Vietnam and beyond



Popular Qigong and Transnational Falun Gong Inside and Outside Post-Mao China



Shrines, Religious Healing, and Pilgrimage in South Asia



Revitalised Sufism and the New Piety Movements in Islamic Southeast Asia



Reading Gender and Religion in East Asia: Family Formations and Cultural Transformations



Confucian Values and East Asian Capitalism: A Variable Weberian Trajectory



Religion and Asia’s Middle Classes



Buddhism: modernization or globalization?



Hinduism and Globalization: Gurus, Yoga and Migration in Northern Europe



Internet and Religion in Asia



Globalising the Asian Muslim Umma: Alternating Movements East-West of Spirituality, Reform and Militant Jihad



Asian Pentecostalism: Revivals, Mega-Churches, and Social Engagement



Religion, Religions and Modernization