@article{840049,
      recid = {840049},
      author = {DuBois, Thomas David,},
      title = {Religion and the making of modern east Asia [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xii, 259 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Religion and religious ideas have played a fundamental  role in the shaping of Asian history, society, and cultural  practices. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas  David DuBois sets out to explain how religious traditions  and philosophies in China and Japan have evolved and  intersected since the birth of Confucianism in China and  the arrival of Buddhism in Japan. Crossing a broad terrain  from Tokyo to Tibet, the book concentrates on the  post-fourteenth century, when the long-lasting political  dynasties that transformed the political, social, and  economic institutions of both countries came into being. It  is these connections that the author is keen to highlight,  and he does so to effect by using key moments, such as the  Taiping Uprising and the Boxer Rebellion, to underscore the  importance of religion in transforming the course of Asian  history. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime  deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion,  and the persecution of the Dalai Lama"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/840049},
}