@article{1398159,
      recid = {1398159},
      author = {Welter, Albert, and Newmark, Jeffrey,},
      title = {Religion, culture, and the public sphere in China and  Japan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 259 pages)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398159},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2437-5},
}