Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements by Pokorny, Lukas; Winter, Franz;

Short description:

The Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements is the first comprehensive reference work to explore major new religious actors and trajectories of the East Asian region (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam).

Long description:

* This Handbook has won the ICAS Edited Volume Accolade 2019. Brill warmly congratulates editors Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter and their authors with this award. *



A vibrant cauldron of new religious developments, East Asia (China/Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam) presents a fascinating arena of related research for scholars across disciplines. Edited by Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter, the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movements provides the first comprehensive and reliable guide to explore the vast East Asian new religious panorama. Penned by leading scholars in the field, the assembled contributions render the Handbook an invaluable resource for those interested in the crucial new religious actors and trajectories of the region.

'In the final analysis, the Handbook of East Asian Religious Movements is an excellently written, meticulously annotated, and elegantly presented collection of fine essays, which, in itself, is an outstanding scholarly achievement; not to mention the fact that a work of this magnitude has been long-awaited in the circles of East Asian religious studies.'

Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Journal of Religion in Japan 7 (2018)



'Assembling an array of specialists from the field, this edited volume, part of the valued Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion Series, is a significant contribution for scholars and general readers in the fields of religious studies, sociology, history, political science, regional studies, anthropology, conflict studies, and theology.'

David W. Kim, Australian National University, Religious Studies Review 44. 4, December 2018



"The first comprehensive guide to the vast East Asian new religious panorama. Penned by leading scholars, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for those interested in the crucial new religious actors and trajectories of the region."

- ICAS Book Prize Committee, July 2019.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Romanisation and Style
List of Contributors

Introduction
1 East Asian New Religious Movements: Introductory Remarks
 Lukas Pokorny and Franz Winter

Part 1: Japanese New Religious Movements

Part 2: Korean New Religious Movements

Part 3: Chinese New Religious Movements

Part 4: Vietnamese New Religious Movements