Chinese & Japanese Religions Books

New and Published Books

1. Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

   Between Mind and Body

   Edited by Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Religion in Contemporary China

   Revitalization and Innovation

   Edited by Adam Yuet Chau

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. A Study of Shinto

   The Religion of the Japanese Nation

   By Genchi Katu

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Japanese Religions and Globalization

   By Ugo Dessì

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Making Sense of the Secular

   Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

   Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mapping China and Managing the World

   Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

   By Richard J. Smith

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

   Red Fire

   By Gene Cooper

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

   By Tong Chee Kiong

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan

   Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition

   By Jonathan Morris Augustine

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

   Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Emergence of Daoism

    Creation of Tradition

    By Gil Raz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Taoism

    At the core of Daoism are ancient ideas concerning the Way, the fundamental process of existence (the Dao). Humans, as individuals and as a society, should be aligned with the Dao in order to attain the fullness of life and its potential. This book presents the history of early Daoism, tracing the...

    Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge