Casting Faiths

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective

   1. Introduction: The Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia—Paradigmatic Change in Regional Perspective

      • Thomas DuBois

      Pages 1-19

3. Orientalism and the Western Recasting of Buddhism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. From Thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism: Constructions of Religion and Religious Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Myanmar

      • Alexey Kirichenko

      Pages 23-45

   3. Publishing Eastern Buddhism: D. T. Suzuki’s Journey to the West

      • Judith Snodgrass

      Pages 46-72

4. Mission and Meaning in Christianity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. The Education of Annie Howe: Missionary Transformations in late Meiji Japan

      • Roberta Wollons

      Pages 75-104

   3. Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904–1920

      • Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz

      Pages 105-128

   4. The Virgin Heads South: Northern Catholic Refugees and their Clergy in South Vietnam, 1954–1964

      • Peter Hansen

      Pages 129-151

5. State and Religious Ethnicity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya

      • Iza Hussin

      Pages 155-174

   3. Christian Conversion and Ethnic Identity in East Kalimantan

      • Jennifer Connolly

      Pages 175-189

   4. Recasting Religion and Ethnicity: Tourism and Socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992–2005

      • Donald S. Sutton, Xiaofei Kang

      Pages 190-214

6. New Media and New Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Japanese Print Media and Manchurian Cultural Community: Religion in the Pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906–1944

      • Thomas DuBois

      Pages 217-238

   3. Showing Faith: Exhibiting Ōmoto to Consumers in Early-Twentieth-Century Japan

      • Nancy Stalker

      Pages 239-256

   4. Afterword: Questioning Faiths? Casting Doubts

      • Oscar Salemink

      Pages 257-263

7. Back Matter

   Pages 264-271

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How did European imperialism shape the ideas and practices of religion in East and Southeast Asia? Casting Faiths brings together eleven scholars to show how Western law, governance, education and mission shaped the basic understanding of what religion is, and what role it should play in society.

• imperialism
• Indonesia
• Japan
• law
• material culture
• media
• socialism
• Vietnam

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Thomas David DuBois

THOMAS DUBOIS is Associate Professor of History at National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Hawaii, 2005), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, East Asian History, History and Theory, and the Law and History Review.

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