Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The transformation of religion in East and Southeast Asia : paradigmatic change in regional perspective / Thomas DuBois
  • Pt. I. Orientalism and the Western recasting of Buddhism. From thathanadaw to Theravāda Buddhism : constructions of religion and religious identity in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Myanmar / Alexey Kirichenko
  • Publishing Eastern Buddhism : D.T. Suzuki's journey to the West / Judith Snodgrass
  • Pt. II. Mission and meaning in Christianity. The education of Annie Howe : missionary transformations in late Meiji Japan / Roberta Wollons
  • Idols and art : missionary attitudes toward indigenous worship and the material culture on Nias, Indonesia, 1904-1920 / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
  • The virgin heads south : northern Catholic refugees and their clergy in South Vietnam, 1954-1964 / Peter Hansen
  • Pt. III. State and religious ethnicity. The making of Islamic law : local elites and colonial authority in British Malaya / Iza Hussin
  • Christian conversion and ethnic identity in East Kalimantan / Jennifer Connolly
  • Recasting religion and ethnicity : tourism and socialism in Northern Sichuan, 1992-2005 / Donald S. Sutton and Xiaofei Kang
  • Pt. IV. New media and new religion. Japanese print media and Manchurian cultural community : religion in the pages of the Shengjing Times, 1906-1944 / Thomas DuBois
  • Showing faith : exhibiting Ōmoto to consumers in early-twentieth-century Japan / Nancy Stalker
  • Afterword: Questioning faith? : casting doubts / Oscar Salemink.