Skip to content

Japanese Religions and Globalization

Japanese Religions and Globalization Hard cover - 2013

by Ugo Dessì

  • New
  • Hardcover

Description

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provid
New
NZ$342.11
NZ$16.93 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 7 to 12 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Ria Christie Collections (Greater London, United Kingdom)

Details

  • Title Japanese Religions and Globalization
  • Author Ugo Dessì
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 191
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2013-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780415811705_pod
  • ISBN 9780415811705
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General

About Ria Christie Collections Greater London, United Kingdom

Biblio member since 2014
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Hello We are professional online booksellers. We sell mostly new books and textbooks and we do our best to provide a competitive price. We are based in Greater London, UK. We pride ourselves by providing a good customer service throughout, shipping the items quickly and replying to customer queries promptly. Ria Christie Collections

Terms of Sale:

30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from Ria Christie Collections

From the publisher

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of globalization, and how they respond to these flows by shaping new glocal identities.

The book highlights how, paradoxically, these processes of religious hybridization may be closely intertwined with the promotion of cultural chauvinism. It shows how on the one hand religion in Japan is engaged in border negotiation with global subsystems such as politics, secular education, and science, and how on the other hand, it tries to find new legitimation by addressing pressing global problems such as war, the environmental crisis, and economic disparities left unsolved by the dominant subsystems.

A significant contribution to advancing an understanding of modern Japanese religious life, this book is of interest to academics working in the fields of Japanese Studies, Asian history and religion and the sociology of religion.

About the author

Ugo Dess is a lecturer at the Institute of Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He has published widely on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religions.