Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies

Kiri Paramore, is University Lecturer in History and Asian Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is the author of Ideology and Christianity in Japan (2009) and Japanese Confucianism: a Cultural History (2016).

• Introduction, Kiri Paramore 1. Religion in Southeast Asian Studies, Ben Arps 2. Religion in the sociology and anthropology of India, Rowena Robinson 3. India and the making of Hinduism: The contribution of the Puranas, Peter Bisschop 4. The study of Chinese Religions in the social sciences: Beyond the Monotheistic Assumption, Anna Sun 5. Coming to terms with religion in East Asia, T. H. Barrett6. From Field to Text in the Study of Chinese Religion, Barend J. ter Haar7. Religion in Korean Studies: The Case of Historiography, Marion Eggert 8. The Role of Religion in European and North American Japanese Studies, Hans Martin Krämer 9. Religion, Secularism and the Japanese Shaping of East Asian Studies, Kiri Paramore 10. Christian-Muslim Borderlands: From Eastern European Studies to Central Eurasian Studies, Christian Noack and Michael KemperBibliographyIndex

In addition to drawing attention to the complex relationship between Orientalism, religion, and Area Studies, some of the essays included in this volume also offer new methodologies and new scholarly strategies…It is such original observations which will surely make Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies a mandatory text in future Ph.D. candidacy exams for scholars of Asian Studies.