Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
Decolonising the Study of Religion: Who Owns Buddhism?
1st Edition
By Jørn Borup
May 06, 2025
Decolonising the Study of Religion analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of religion and Buddhism and critically investigates representations, possibilities, and challenges of a decolonial approach, addressing the important question: who owns Buddhism? The monograph offers...
Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World: Khidr/Khizr from the Middle East to South Asia
1st Edition
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By Michel Boivin, Manoël Pénicaud
January 30, 2025
Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World studies the immortal saint Khidr/Khizr, a mysterious prophet and popular multi-religious figure and Sufi master venerated across the Muslim world. Focusing on the religious figure of Khidr/Khizr and the practice of religion from ...
Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea: Ŭisang’s Ocean Seal Diagram
1st Edition
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By Hyangsoon Yi, Dal Yong Jin
September 17, 2024
Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea introduces Ŭisang (625–702), a seminal figure in East Asian religion who founded the Korean Hwaŏm school of Buddhism, from various angles by placing his thought in the interdisciplinary and intercultural context of the twenty-first century. The ...
Christianity and Radical Democracy in the Philippines: Building a Church of the Poor
1st Edition
By Christopher Moxham
August 26, 2024
This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia. By drawing upon primary, qualitative data, this book examines cultural production and community resilience amid poverty and structural restraints. It...
Research in the Islamic Context: Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia, Indian Ocean, and the Arab World
1st Edition
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By M Ilias
August 26, 2024
This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning of Islam in social science research as both an epistemic/ontological category and as a method. Chapters by experts in the field explore research in the Islamic context vis-à-vis these...
The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting
1st Edition
By Youru Wang
August 12, 2024
This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the ...
Theories of the Self, Race, and Essentialization in Buddhism: The United States and the Asian "Other", 1899–1957
1st Edition
By Ryan Anningson
January 09, 2023
This book analyzes Buddhist discussions of the Aryan myth and scientific racism and the ways in which this conversation reshaped Buddhism in the United States, and globally. The book traces the development of notions of Aryanism in Buddhism through Buddhist publications from 1899-1957, focusing on...
Sutras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy: Narrative and Transfiguration
1st Edition
By Daniel Raveh
December 12, 2019
This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upaniṣadic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahābhārata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajāpati, Indra and Virochana from the Chāndogya Upanisad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of ...
Science and Socio-Religious Revolution in India: Moving the Mountains
1st Edition
By Pankaj Jain
August 23, 2018
Scholars have long noticed a discrepancy in the way non-Western and Western peoples conceptualize the scientific and religious worlds. Non-Western traditions and communities, such as of India, are better positioned to provide an alternative to the Western dualistic thinking of separating science ...
Asian Religions, Technology and Science
1st Edition
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By István Keul
June 28, 2018
Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas ...
Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia: Collaborations and Collisions
1st Edition
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By Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Zhou Xun
January 22, 2018
Recent academic and medical initiatives have highlighted the benefits of studying culturally embedded healing traditions that incorporate religious and philosophical viewpoints to better understand local and global healing phenomena. Capitalising on this trend, the present volume looks at the ...
Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism
1st Edition
By James Stewart
January 22, 2018
Buddhism is widely known to advocate a stance of total pacifism towards all sentient beings, and because of this, it is often thought that Buddhist doctrine would stipulate that non-violent food practices, such as vegetarianism, be mandatory. However, the Pāli source materials do not encourage ...