Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- 13 The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times
- 14 Christianity in Europe and overseas
- 15 Islam in the early modern world
- 16 Religious change in East Asia
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
16 - Religious change in East Asia
from Part Three - Religion and Religious Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- 13 The scholarly discovery of religion in early modern times
- 14 Christianity in Europe and overseas
- 15 Islam in the early modern world
- 16 Religious change in East Asia
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter covers some aspects of the diverse religious landscape of East Asia, and is divided into two parts, the first dedicated to China, the second to Korea and Japan. The Qing emperors continued to patronize Buddhism, but also changed the terms of the state's relationship with it. By maintaining a carefully balanced equilibrium among Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Daoism and their native shamanism, they projected an image of ethno-religious diversity, pivoting as enlightened rulers over Chinese, Mongols, Manchus and Tibetans. The historical experience of Christian communities in different parts of the empire, moreover, varied according to localized norms and social practices. In rural contexts and among commoners, the "Confucian Christianity" and the textual world of prominent literati converts did not occupy the place of honor. The chapter also explains about religious aspects of shinto and popular religion remained consistent throughout the late medieval and the early modern periods.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge World History , pp. 387 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Primary Sources
Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi, The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2005).Google Scholar
Berling, Judith, “Taoism in Ming Culture,” in Twitchett, Denis C. and Mote, Frederick W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, vol. viii, Part 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 953–86.Google Scholar
Brook, Timothy, “The Politics of Religion: Late-Imperial Origins of the Regulatory State,” in Yoshiko, Ashiwa and Wank, David L. (eds.), Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2009), pp. 22–42.Google Scholar
De Bruyn, Pierre-Henry, “Daoism in the Ming, 1368–1644,” in Kohn, Livia (ed.), Daoism Handbook (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 594–622.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Esposito, Monica, “Daoism in the Qing, 1644–1911,” in Kohn, Livia (ed.), Daoism Handbook (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 623–58.Google Scholar
Frankel, James D., “Chinese Islam,” in Nadeau, Randall Laird (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 237–60.Google Scholar
Goossaert, Vincent, “Taoism, 1644–1850,” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. IX, Part 2. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Goossaert, Vincent, and Palmer, David, The Religious Question in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Menegon, Eugenio, Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Meulenbeld, Mark, “Chinese Religion in the Ming and Qing Dynasties,” in Nadeau, Randall Laird (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 125–44.Google Scholar
Overmyer, Daniel, Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peterson, Willard, “Learning from Heaven: The Introduction of Christianity and Other Western Ideas into Late Ming China,” in Twitchett, Denis C. and Mote, Frederick W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, vol. viii, Part 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 789–839.Google Scholar
Seiwert, Hubert (in collaboration with Ma Xisha), Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History (Leiden: Brill, 2003).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Standaert, Nicolas (ed.), Handbook of Christianity in China. Volume One: 635–1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, Romeyn, “Official Religion in the Ming,” in Twitchett, Denis C. and Mote, Frederick W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, vol. viii, Part 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 840–92.Google Scholar
Yü, Chün-fang, “Ming Buddhism,” in Twitchett, Denis C. and Mote, Frederick W. (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, vol. viii, Part 2 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 899–952.Google Scholar
Secondary Sources
Buswell, Robert E. Jr., and Lee, Timothy S. (eds.), Christianity in Korea (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Debary, William Theodore, and Haboush, JaHyun Kim (eds.), The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).Google Scholar
Deuchler, Martina, The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1992).Google Scholar
Haboush, JaHyun Kim, and Deuchler, Martina (eds.), Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999).Google Scholar
Jung, Ji-Young, “Buddhist Nuns and Alternative Space in Confucian Chosŏn Society,” in Cho, Eun-Su and Buswell, Robert (eds.), Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011), pp. 147–64.Google Scholar
Lancaster, Lewis R., and Yu, Chai-shin (eds.), Buddhism in the Early Chŏson: Suppression and Transformation, Korea Research Monograph 23 (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California at Berkeley, 1996).Google Scholar
Nam, Hee-sook, “Publication of Buddhist Literary Texts: The Publication and Popularization of Mantra Collections and Buddhist Ritual Texts in the Late Chosŏn Dynasty,” trans. Inga Diederich, Journal of Korean Religions 3.1 (2012): 9–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walraven, Boudewijn, “Religion and the City: Seoul in the Nineteenth Century,” The Review of Korean Studies 3 (2000): 178–206.Google Scholar
Ambros, Barbara, Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008).Google Scholar
Bodiford, William M., Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cogan, Gina, The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014).Google Scholar
Grapard, Alan G., “The Shinto of Yoshida Kanetomo,” Monumenta Nipponica 47.1 (1992): 27–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hur, Nam-Lin, Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity and the Danka System (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).Google Scholar
Nosco, Peter, Remembering Paradise: Nostalgia and Nativism in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University, 1990).Google Scholar
Ooms, Herman, Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680 (Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, the University of Michigan, 1985).Google Scholar
Sawada, Janine Anderson, Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993).Google Scholar
Tsang, Carol Richmond, War and Faith: Ikkō Ikki in Muromachi Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).Google Scholar