Casting Faiths

Introduction: The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia – paradigmatic change in regional perspective; T.DuBois PART I: ORIENTALISM AND THE WESTERN RECASTING OF BUDDHISM From Thathanadaw to Therav?da Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Myanmar; A.Kirichenko Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D.T Suzuki's journey to the West; J.Snodgrass PART II: MISSION AND MEANING IN CHRISTIANITY The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late Meiji Japan; R.Wollons Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes towards Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920; M.Tjoa-Bonatz The Virgin heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-64; P.Hansen PART III. STATE AND RELIGIOUS ETHNICITY The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya; I.Hussin Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan; J.Connolly Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005; D.Sutton & X.Kang PART IV: NEW MEDIA AND NEW RELIGION Japanese media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Shengjing Times, 1907-1944; T.DuBois Showing Faith: Exhibiting ?moto to Consumers in Early Twentieth Century Japan; N.Stalker Afterword: Questioning faiths? Casting doubts; O.Salemink