TY - BOOK AU - Esposito,John L. AU - Fasching,Darrell J. AU - Fasching,Darrell J. TI - Religions of Asia today SN - 0199999643 U1 - 200.95 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Asia KW - Religión N1 - Bibliografía:páginas 253; Índices: páginas 255-266; Introduction -- Globalization : world religions in everyone's hometown -- Understanding religious experience and its expressions -- The great transition : from tribal life to urban life and the emergence of world religions --The great religious stories of the world -- Modernization in global perspective -- Modern colonialism, the socialistchallenge, and the end of modernity -- Postmodern trends in a postcolonial world -- Conclusion: We are all hereticsin the postmodern situation -- Indigenous religions -- Origins of homo religiosus : prehistory -- Indigenous religious traditions : soul belief and afterlife -- Indigenous religions today -- Hinduism -- Encountering modernity : Hindu challenges to India as a secular state -- Premodern Hinduism : the formative era -- Premodern Hinduism : the classical era (180 BCE-900 CE) -- Premodern Hinduism : the post-classical era (900 CE-1500 CE) -- Hinduism and modernity -- Hinduism and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world -- Hindu festival practice -- The religious institutions of contemporary Hinduism -- Buddhism : ways to Nirvana -- Encounter with modernity : socially "engaged Buddhism" -- Premodern Buddhism : the formative era -- Premodern Buddhism : the classical era --The core doctrines -- Premodern Buddhism : Buddhist expansion -- Buddhism and modernity -- Buddhism and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world -- East Asian religions : traditions of human cultivation and natural harmony -- Encounter with modernity : postcolonialConfucian economics -- East Asian religions in the premodern era -- East Asian religions in the early modern era -- East Asian religions and postmodern trends in a postcolonial world -- Islam in Asia -- The dawn of Islam in Asia -- The Islamic tradition -- Jihad -- The challengeof European colonialism -- Globalization : from new to New Age religions -- New religions -- New Age religions -- Religious postmodernism and global ethics; SEG42; SEG41; SEG40; SEG39; P94; P87; P86; P85; P77; P76; P35 ER -