Religion, culture, and the public sphere in China and Japan / Albert Welter, Jeffrey Newmark, editors.
Welter, Albert, 1952- editor.; Newmark, Jeffrey, editor.
2017
BL65.P7
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Title
Religion, culture, and the public sphere in China and Japan / Albert Welter, Jeffrey Newmark, editors.
ISBN
9789811024375 (electronic bk.)
9811024375 (electronic bk.)
9789811024368
9811024367 (print)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2437-5
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-10-2437-5 doi
Call Number
BL65.P7
Dewey Decimal Classification
322/.1095
Summary
This collection examines the impact of East Asian religion and culture on the public sphere, defined as an idealized discursive arena that mediates the official and private spheres. It contends that the actors and agents on the fringes of society were the most instrumental in shaping the public sphere in traditional and modern East Asia, and considers how these outliers contribute to religious, intellectual, and cultural dialog in the public sphere. When Jürgen Habermas conceptualized the public sphere in his seminal 1962 work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, he asserted that the discursive arena emerged from and grew within Western European bourgeoisie society in such settings as coffee houses, literary salons, and various print media. The sphere allows one to engage in matters of public interest in a forum separate from their private and official lives. Arguable overlooking certain topics, notably gender, minorities, and non---European civilizations, as well as the extent to which agency in the public sphere is effective in non-Western societies (including East Asia) and the extent to which practitioners on the outskirts of mainstream society play a role in the public sphere. This volume responds to and builds upon this dialogue by addressing how religious, intellectual, and cultural agency in the public sphere shapes East Asian cultures, particularly the activities of those found on the peripheries of historic and modern societies.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Cenetral, viewed May 25, 2017).
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Welter, Albert, 1952- editor.
Newmark, Jeffrey, editor.
Series
Religion and society in Asia Pacific.
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Religion, culture, and the public sphere in China and Japan.
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Introduction: The East Asian Public Sphere
The Sphere of Privilege: Confucian Culture and the Administration of Buddhism (and Religion) in China
Conservative and Progressive Models for Buddhism under the Republic of China
Islamic Charity in China: Its Organizations and Activities in a New Era
"Knowing the [Confucian] Way" and the Political Sphere
A Self-Made Outlier in the Tokugawa Public Sphere: Ōshio Heihachirō and His 1837 Osaka Riot
Longing for the Ideal World: An Unofficial Religious Association in the Late Tokugawa Public Sphere
Religious Minorities and the Public Sphere: Kagawa Toyohiko and Christian "Counterpublics" in Modern Japanese Society
Truths Unacknowledged: The Public Sphere and Japan's Colonial Project in Korea
The East Asian Public Sphere: Concluding Remarks and Theoretical Considerations.

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