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Subject: H-ASIA: Member book ann., Religion and .. Modern East Asia

> H-ASIA
> April 18, 2011
>
> Member book announcement, _Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia_
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> From: Thomas David Dubois <histdd@nus.edu.sg>
>
> Dear H-Asia colleagues,
>
> I am pleased to announce the publication of _Religion and the Making of
> Modern East Asia_.
>
> This book sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political,
> social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to
> the present day. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book
> highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of
> Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when
> religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation.
> Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese
> emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the
> fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.
>
> _Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia_ is number eight in the "New
> Approaches to Asian History" series by Cambridge University Press. The
> series aims to present historical scholarship in a style that is
> accessible to experts and lay readers alike.
>
> An introduction to the series (plus a link to the book) is available at
> the Cambridge website <
> http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/series/series_display/item3937678/?site_locale=en_US
> >
>
> Happy reading!
>
> Thomas DuBois
> Associate Professor
> Department of History
> National University of Singapore
> http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/histdd/notes
>
>
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