Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
A Philosophy of Mindful Movement: Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, and the Kinesthetic Imagination
1st Edition
By Steven Geisz
June 02, 2026
This novel volume examines Chinese and Indian mindful movements (such as tai chi, qigong, Daoist meditation, and hatha yoga) to demonstrate how the contemplative practices of the body and mind can amount to a form of transformative philosophy through ways of thinking, knowing, and doing. The book ...
The Birth of Tzu Chi: Establishing the Charity Mission (1966 to 1978)
1st Edition
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By Rey-Sheng Her, Rei-Ling Lai
March 31, 2026
The Birth of Tzu Chi is a historical series documenting the development of the Tzu Chi Foundation. This book covers its foundational years, detailing how Master Cheng Yen's simple aspiration, "For Buddha's teachings, for all living beings," led to a global movement. This volume documents Tzu Chi's ...
Sanskrit Hymns Across Traditions: Studying Stotras
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By Hamsa Stainton, Anna Lee White
February 25, 2026
Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotra/ stuti/ stava) have been popular and influential within multiple religious traditions for thousands of years. Sanskrit hymns remain lively, meaningful parts of the religious lives of countless Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains today, and new stotras continue to be ...
The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting
1st Edition
By Youru Wang
December 26, 2025
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 ...
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
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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
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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
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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...
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...
Christianity in Northeast India: A Cultural History of Nagaland from 1947
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By Chongpongmeren Jamir
August 29, 2022
This book examines the distinctive formation of Christianity in Nagaland, Northeast India, since 1947. It argues that an understanding of the history of Christianity in the region can be found in its cultural milieu and the changing political, social and religious environment.In Nagaland, almost&...
Chinese Theology and Translation: The Christianity of the Jesuit Figurists and their Christianized Yijing
1st Edition
By Sophie Ling-chia Wei
June 30, 2021
This book uncovers the Jesuits’ mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.The book analyzes how Jesuit Figurists incorporated their intralingual translation of the Yijing, the Classical and vernacular use of Chinese language ...