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| List of Boxes, Figures, and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| In the beginning: Religion and history | |
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| Ming China: The fourteenth century's new world order | |
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| Religious foundations of late imperial China | |
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| The emperor monk: Zhu Yuanzhang and the new Confucian state | |
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| The Buddha and the shogun in sixteenth-century Japan | |
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| Religious foundations of medieval Japan | |
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| Burning monks: The assault on Buddhism | |
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| Opportunities lost: The failure of Christianity, 1550-1750 | |
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| The Society of Jesus comes to Asia | |
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| The roots of conflict and the long road home | |
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| Buddhism: Incarnations and reincarnations | |
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| Bodhisattvas and barbarians: Buddhism in Ming and Qing China | |
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| The gilded cage: Funerary Buddhism during the Tokugawa | |
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| Samurai and nothingness: Zen and the Japanese warrior elite | |
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| Apocalypse now | |
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| Why the world keeps ending | |
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| The White Lotus: Six centuries of Chinese heresy, 1360-1860 | |
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| Out of the twilight: Religion and the late nineteenth century | |
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| Fists of Justice and Harmony: Christian mission and the last stand of Chinese traditionalism | |
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| Kill the Buddha! Shinto and the new traditionalism of Meiji Japan | |
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| Into the abyss: Religion and the road to disaster during the early twentieth century | |
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| Toward Confucian fascism: China searches for direction | |
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| Spirit of the rising sun: Japanese religious militarism | |
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| Brave new world: Religion in the reinvention of postwar Asia | |
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| Opiate of the masses: Why Marxism opposes religion | |
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| The people's faith: How religion survived China's socialist paradise | |
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| The peace paradigm and search for meaning in Japan | |
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| The globalization of Asian religion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Timeline of dynasties and major events | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Index | |