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Modernist Reformers in Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism, 1865-1935 - Peripheral Geoculture in the Modern World-System (Hardcover)
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Modernist Reformers in Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism, 1865-1935 - Peripheral Geoculture in the Modern World-System (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
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This volume presents a comparison of seven major religious
reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: For
Islam, Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad 'Abduh and Muhammad Rashid
Rida; for Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati and Swami Shraddhananda;
for Confucianism, K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao. Each of these
reformers attempted to bring a major world religion in line with
global modernity by creatively reinterpreting the traditions on
which this religion was based. The book outlines the lives and
major ideas of these reformers, highlights the similarities between
them, interprets their agenda as expressions of peripheral
geoculture (centrist liberalism, antisystemic movements,
positivism) in line with the Modern World-System (MWS) approach and
links them with their 'fundamentalist' successors from the
mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. This way, the
author seeks to redress the Eurocentric bias that sometimes sneaks
into the MWS perspective. While there are numerous studies dealing
with each of these reformers, the original contribution of this
book is to provide a systematic comparison between them and to
interpret them within a larger theoretical framework. It will be of
interest for scholars and students working on issues related to
religion, modernity and historical sociology.
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