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Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Religious Cultures in Asia: Mutual Transformations through Multiple Modernities 2018.2

A report of an international workshop, “Religious Cultures in Asia: Mutual Transformations through Multiple Modernities” held October 20, 2018.

Full Report (PDF: 2.5M)

Table of Contents

Foreword

Program (2018.10.20)

Papers and Abstracts

– MIURA Takashi “The Vision of Asia in Ōmoto’s Ofudesaki” [*abstract]

– HUANG Yueh-Po “The Inculturation of Tenrikyo in Postwar Taiwan” [*abstract]

– David WEISS “Founding Myths of the Japanese State: The Changing Perception of China and

its Influence on Early Modern Japanese Identity”

– SAITO Kota “The Transfiguration of Karagokoro: the Reception of the Mito School Thought

by National Learning in the Meiji Period” [*abstract]

– NISHIDA Shoichi “Kakei Katsuhiko and his Manchurian Imprint”

– TAKASE Kohei “Monuments to Worship and Warfare: The Intricate Relationship between

Religions and Modernities in Japanese Monuments”

– Mateja ZABJEK “Reconsidering the Relationship between Japanese Martial arts and Religion:

Case Study of Mt. Mitsumine and Kyokushin Karate”

– NGUYEN Thu Hang and LUU Thi Thu Thuy “Comparison of the Worship of the Tu Di Gong

between Japan and Vietnam”

– ABE Satoshi “Islamic Debates on the Environment: An Examination of Religious Rationales

in Contemporary Iran”

– NG Ka Shing “When Japanese Buddhism and Chinese Folk Religion Meet in Hong Kong:

Representation and Interpretation of Soka Gakkai in the Chinese Settings”

– MOON Byeong-June “Democratization of Science and Technology via Religion?: The Case of

Won Buddhism and its Historical Periodization”