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Secularities in Japan - Softcover

Ugo Dessì; Christoph Kleine

 
9789004517363: Secularities in Japan

Synopsis

Based on the assumption that existing epistemic and social structures shape the way in which Western concepts of secularism were appropriated, the contributions in this volume inquire into the historical conditions for the development of a Japanese form of secularity.

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About the Author

Ugo Dessì, Ph.D. (2006), is OeNB Professorial Fellow at the University of Vienna. He has published widely on Japanese Buddhism and Japanese religions under globalization, including The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach (Routledge, 2017). Christoph Kleine, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor for the History of Religions at Leipzig University. He has published widely on Buddhism and the religious history of Japan, including Der Buddhismus in Japan: Geschichte, Lehre Praxis (Mohr Siebeck, 2011). Contributors are: Ugo Dessì, Satoko Fujiwara, Christoph Kleine, Kawata Koh, Hans Martin Krämer, Aike P. Rots, Katja Triplett.

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