Introduction: Legacies and Possibilities 1. Tagore and the Conception of Critical Nationalism 2. Midnight’s Children: Religion and Nationalism in South Asia 3. Articulations of Religiously-Motivated Nationalism within Philippine Catholicism: A Critical Assessment 4. Reconsidering the Relation between ‘Sectarianism’ and Nationalism in the Middle East 5. The Irony of Secular Nation-Building in Japanese Modernity: Inoue Kowashi and Fukuzawa Yukichi 6. Buddhism, Cosmology, and Great East Asian Co-prosperity Area: Multiculturalism and Nationalism in the Pre-war period Japan 7. Political modernity in East Asia: Religion, nationalism and subversion of imperialism 8. Religious Nationalism with Non-domination: Ahn Changho's Cosmopolitan Patriotis 9. The Structural Problem of Religious Freedom in China: Towards a Confucian-Christian Synthesis 10. Augustine’s Critique of Religious Identity and Its Implications for the Chinese Church 11. Post-Chinese Reconnections through Religion: Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism 12. Conclusion
Giorgio Shani is Chair in Politics and International Studies and Director of the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University, Japan. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2008) and Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014).
Takashi Kibe is Professor of Political Science at International Christian University, Japan. Among his publications are Martin Luther's Political Thought (in Japanese, 2000), and Political Theory of Equality (in Japanese, 2015).
"The editors are to be congratulated for assembling a multi-disciplinary team of first-rate Asian scholars. In interrogating many of the assumptions underpinning the discussion of religious politics, the book should have a broad appeal across the social sciences."John Hutchinson, Nations and Nationalism
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