Review of "The long search" -- The Yin-Yang way of thinking -- Some contributions of Hinduism to Christianity -- The Bhagvad-Gita as way-shower to the transcendental -- The trinity and the structure of religious life -- Buddhism and Christianity as complementary -- Buddhism and Christianity -- Some problems and possibilities for Burmese Christian theology today -- Horizons on Christianity's new dialogue with Buddhism -- Wisdom and love as the basis for preaching in Buddhism and Christianity

Christian theology in an Asian setting -- A covenant with the Chinese -- Statement of the WCC theological consultation on dialogue in community, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1977.

Foreword / Billy Graham -- Preface / Donald McGavran -- Editor's preface / Donald E. Hoke -- Asia's opening doors / Donald E. Hoke -- Afghanistan -- Bangladesh / Warren Webster -- Bhutan / Billy Bray -- Brunei / Peter Hsieh and Russell Self -- Burma / William D. Hackett -- China / Arthur F. Glasser -- Christianity comes to Asia / Gordon H. Chapman -- Hong Kong / David Woodward -- India, a seething subcontinent / Theodore Williams -- Indonesia / Frank Snow -- Japan : a brief Christian history / Gordon H. Chapman -- Japan's postwar renaissance / Alvin H. Hammond -- The Khmer republic (Cambodia) / Edward A. Cline and Billy Bray -- Korea / Samuel Hugh Moffett -- Laos / G. Edward Roffe -- Malaysia-- Singapore / W.O. Phoon -- The Republic of Maldives / Lennie de Silva -- The Mongolian People's Republic / Stuart Gunzel and Donald E. Hoke -- Nepal / Samuel R. Burgoyne and Jonathan Lindell -- Overseas Chinese / r David Woodward -- Pakistan / Warren Webster -- Papua New Guinea / Geoffrey Smith & John Hitchen -- The Philippines / Ralph Tolliver -- Sikkim / Billy Bray -- South Vietnam / Reginald Reimer -- Sri Lanka (Ceylon) / B.E. Fernando -- Taiwan / David Woodward -- Thailand / Leon B. Gold -- Tibet / G. Tharchin and David Woodward -- Important religions of Asia / Gordon H. Chapman -- Christian population by percentage of total population -- Christian population by percentage of major ethnic groups -- General and Christian populations of Asian nations.

Die Formierung der frühen Religionswissenschaft in China (1890-1949) : Diskurse, Kontexte, Akteure / by Chrstian Meyer

From the publisher's website:
Wie entwickelte sich in China eine moderne Religionswissenschaft schon vor 1949? Welche Diskurse, Akteure und lokalen Kontexte trugen zu ihrer Adaption in einem außerwestlichen Kontext bei? Welche Transferkanäle und Motive waren entscheidend? Christian Meyer rekonstruiert erstmals und umfassend die lokalen Kontexte, transnationalen Diskurse und Akteursgruppen, die zur Entstehung einer frühen chinesischen Religionswissenschaft in der späten Kaiser- und Republikzeit beitrugen. Auf der Folie der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Voraussetzungen lenkt die Studie den Blick auf die entscheidende Rolle christlich-chinesischer Akademiker als Akteure in den frühen Modernisierungs- und Identitätsdebatten. Als Teil der globalen Genealogie der Disziplin Religionswissenschaft liefert der Autor damit eine Fallstudie für eine frühe außerwestliche Fachgeschichte.

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Images in Asian religions : texts and contexts / edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes some text in Chinese and Japanese; some bibliographical references in Chinese and Japanese.

Images and their ritual use in medieval India : hesitations and contradictions / Phyllis Granoff -- Theology as history : divine images, imagination, and rituals in India / Gilles Tarabout -- Of metal and cloths : the location of distinctive features in divine iconography (Indian Himalayas) / Daniela Berti -- At the right side of the teacher : imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and Śaiva initiation / Hans Bakker -- The competing hermeneutics of image worship in Hinduism (fifth to eleventh century AD) / Gérard Colas -- Stories of miraculous images and paying respect to the three jewels : a discourse on image worship in seventh-century China / Koichi Shinohara -- Icon and incantation : the goddess Zhunti and the role of images in the occult Buddhism of China / Robert M. Gimello -- The Tenjukoju Shūchō Mandara : reconstruction of the iconography and ritual context / Chari Pradel -- Ōbaku Zen portrait painting and its Sino-Japanese heritage / Elizabeth Horton Sharf -- Ritual and image at Angkor Wat / Robert L. Brown.

Local access dig.pdf. [Images in Asian religions.pdf]

Overlapping cosmologies in Asia : transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Bill M. Mak, Eric Huntington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington -- The influence of Assyriology on the study of Chinese astronomy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / John Steele -- Greek astral sciences in China / Bill M. Mak -- Eclipse dragons, seasonal change, and the salvation of light : a case of overlapping cosmologies in Manichaeism / Adrian C. Pirtea -- Deciphering Aristotle with Chinese medical cosmology : Nanban Unkiron and the reception of Jesuit cosmology in early modern Japan / Hiraoka Ryuji -- Chinese-Muslims as agents of astral knowledge in late imperial China / Dror Weil -- Geometrizing Chinese astronomy? The view from a diagram in the Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq by al-Nīsābūrī (d. ca. 1330) / Yoichi Isahaya -- From heaven to earth : circles and the construction of the imperial order in late Ming and early Qing China / Catherine Jami -- The Buddhist universe in early modern Japan : cosmological dispute and the epistemology of vision / D. Max Moerman -- Buddhist cosmology in Bhutanese murals : a visual negotiation between Abhidharma and Kālacakra systems / Eric Huntington -- Overlapping heavens in the wall paintings of Mogao Cave 285 at Dunhuang : an art-historical study of the syncretistic images on its west wall and ceiling / Satomi Hiyama.

"The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. This book brings together ten diverse scholars to present their views on these overlapping cosmologies in Asia"-- Provided by publisher.

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Palimpsests of religious encounter in Asia, 1500-1800 / edited by Mia M. Mochizuki, Ines G. Županov.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 97 - 2025

"During the "thick globalism" of the early modern world, evidence of religious contact, between conflict and commerce, has been overlooked in national narratives. In Palimpsests of Religious Encounter in Asia, 1500-1800, a cross-disciplinary group of international experts delve into on-site artefacts and archives to consider the geographical imagination, the transfer of knowledge, the politics of interreligious dialogue, the practice of reception, and the cyclical flow of meaning across transcultural things. Illustrations of objects rarely available to the public demonstrate how religious belief can provide a shared methodological platform for the global turn of art history"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What remains : the transcultural legacy of making / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Eagle-eyed encounter : miraculous or global in Portuguese Asia (1720) / Ines G. Županov -- The hair relics of the Prophet Muhammad in Kashmir : mapping transregional connectivities / Fayaz A. Dar and Zubair Khalid -- India through the Japanese looking glass : cartographic encounters and the Buddhist world picture / D. Max Moerman -- 'Come, let us ascend to the heavens' : the Jantar Mantar at Jaipur and the politics of scientific architecture / Dhruv Raina -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi and St Francis Xavier : kami-making and the impact of the cult of saints in Japan, 1552-1622 / Timon Screech -- The agency of Bezoar and Goa stones in global religious encounter / Edith Llamas Camacho and Guillermo Wilde -- Carlo Dolci's Madonna with the thumb : a dialogue between Giovanni Battista Sidoti and Arai Hakuseki / Kayo Hirakawa -- The Paravur dialogues : religious encounter, a new attribution, and the first modern prose in Malayalam / Emy Merin Joy -- Taming the fascist dragon : Pasquale d'Elia, S.J. and early modern Chinese Christian art / Antonio De Caro -- Visual and Personal Displacements in the Chinese reception of Christian illustrated prints / Nicolas Standaert -- From Rome to Goa : the question of the first Goan church / Sidh Losa Mendiratta -- Material encounters : ivory and metalwork in the earliest Philippine devotional art / René B. Javellana, S.J. -- Syncretic stowaways : Dutch maritime imagery in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines / Michiko Fukaya -- The mount, the garden, the tree : material images and moral meanings in Constantine Beschi's Tēmpāvani chapters 18-19 / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- The incipient devotion to the martyrs of Japan : the 'true images' of the Calvary of Nagasaki / Raphaèle Preisinger.

Link to Brill eBooks via BC Libraries

Contains:

Antonio De Caro. Chapter 10 "Taming the Fascist Dragon: Pasquale d’Elia, S.J. and Early Modern Chinese Christian Art". Pages: 293–321

Nicolas Standaert. Chapter 11: “Visual and Personal Displacements in the Chinese Reception of Christian Illustrated Prints”, pp. 325-360.

Link to Open Access (Standaert article only)

The discourse on the Marxist study of religion in the new era in the PRC: an outsider’s perspective / Katja Wengenmayr

Religions 16 (2025)

 Local access dig.pdf.[Wengenmayr-The discourse on the Marxist study.pdf]

Abstract: This paper contributes to the intercultural understanding of religious studies in East Asia by examining their discursive framework within the Chinese context. It analyzes the academic discourse on religious studies in the PRC, particularly debates on atheism and the Marxist study of religion. In 2021, President Xi Jinping emphasized the impor‑ tance of aligning religious studies with Marxist principles, sparking renewed debate on the field’s orientation. This paper examines the responses of religious studies scholars to state directives. It illustrates how the reframing of the discipline and reinterpretations of the Marxist view on religion serve as strategies employed by scholars to answer “the call” of the official discourse. The significant representation of scholars promoting atheism in the political sphere further aligns religious studies with official discourse, narrowing the discursive space for other theoretical approaches toward religion.