Religious Diversity in Asia

Jørn Borup, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Department of the Study of Religion at Aarhus University. He has published various monographs, edited volumes and articles on Buddhism (in East and West), spirituality, migration and religious diversity.Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University. Her main research field is Hinduism in Diaspora, guru worship and yoga in the West. She has primarily edited and published within these subjects.Lene Kühle, Ph.D., is professor WSR at Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University. She has published widely in English and Danish on religious diversity, Muslims in Denmark, radicalisation and religion in public institutions.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJørn Borup and Marianne Q. FibigerPart 1: Religious Diversities – Past and Present1 Religious Diversity on the Korean Peninsula, Past and PresentDon Baker2 Religious Diversity in JapanUgo Dessì3 The Double-Layered Diversification of Religion in Post-Renovation VietnamChung Van HoangPART 2: Identities4 Some ‘Side Effects’ of Religious Diversity: Exploring Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular StateAyelet Harel-Shalev and Noa Levy5 The Challenge of Diversity: Evangelical Missionaries and Ethno-Christianity in Reform Era YunnanGideon Elazar6 From Syncretism to Split: Ethnographic Insights from a Socio-Religious Movement in IndiaSantosh K. SinghPart 3: Education7 Religious Diversity with Chinese Characteristics? Meanings and Implications of the Term ‘Religious Diversity’ in Contemporary Chinese DissertationsYu Tao and Ed Griffith8 How Religious Diversity Is Represented and Taught in Asian School TextbooksSatoko FujiwaraPart 4: Ritual9 Worshipping Durga(s) Dasara, Durga Puja and the Dynamics of Goddess Worship in a Former Princely State in Odisha, IndiaUwe Skoda10 Religious Diversity and Interreligious Contestations in Sri Lanka: the Encounter between Buddhism and Islam in the Galebandara Cult in KurunagalaKalinga Tudor SilvaPart 5: Diaspora11 La Caridad, Oshún, and Kuan Yin in Afro-Chinese Religion in CubaMartin A. Tsang12 Religious Diversity among Asians in Old DiasporasJorn Borup and Marianne Q. FibigerConclusionLene KühleIndex