1st Edition

Religion and Nationalism in Asia

Edited By Giorgio Shani, Takashi Kibe Copyright 2020
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East, South and South East Asia. Addressing empirical, analytical, and normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across Asia, including China, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka and compares the differences and commonalities... Read more

Introduction: Legacies and Possibilities  1. Tagore and the Conception of Critical Nationalism  2. Midnight’s Children: Religion and Nationalism in South Asia  3. Articulations of Religiously-Motivated Nationalism within Philippine Catholicism: A Critical Assessment  4. Reconsidering the Relation between ‘Sectarianism’ and Nationalism in the Middle East  5. The Irony of Secular Nation-Building in Japanese Modernity: Inoue Kowashi and Fukuzawa Yukichi  6. Buddhism, Cosmology, and Great East Asian Co-prosperity Area: Multiculturalism and Nationalism in the Pre-war period Japan  7. Political modernity in East Asia: Religion, nationalism and subversion of imperialism  8. Religious Nationalism with Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotis  9. The Structural Problem of Religious Freedom in China: Towards a Confucian-Christian Synthesis  10. Augustine’s Critique of Religious Identity and Its Implications for the Chinese Church  11. Post-Chinese Reconnections through Religion: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism  12. Conclusion

Biography

Giorgio Shani is Chair in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University, Japan. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2008) and Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014).





Takashi Kibe is Professor of Political Science at International Christian University, Japan. Among his publications are Martin Luther's Political Thought (in Japanese, 2000), and Political Theory of Equality (in Japanese, 2015).