1st Edition
Modernist Reformers in Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism, 1865-1935 Peripheral Geoculture in the Modern World-System
By Christian Lekon
Copyright 2019
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad ‘Abduh and Muhammad Rashid Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda; for Confucianism, K’ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao. Each of these reformers attempted to bring a major world religion in line with global... Read more
Introduction, 1. Islam: Salafiyya, 2. Hinduism: Arya Samaj, 3. Confucianism: Kung-yang, 4. Centrist Liberalism, 5. Antisystemic Movements, 6. Positivism, Conclusion
Biography
Christian Lekon received his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, he is lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.
