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List of modern writers on Eastern religions

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Eastern religions refers to religions originating in the Eastern world—India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia—and thus having dissimilarities with Western religions. This includes the Indian and East Asian religious traditions, as well as animistic indigenous religions.

Classification

This East-West religious distinction, just as with the East-West culture distinction, and the implications that arise from it, are broad and not precise. Furthermore, the geographical distinction has less meaning in the current context of global transculturation.

While many Western observers attempt to distinguish between Eastern philosophies and religions, this is a distinction that does not exist in some Eastern traditions.{{sfn|Morgan|2001|p=9-11}}

According to Adams, Indian religions

{{quote|[include] early Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and sometimes also Theravāda Buddhism and the Hindu- and Buddhist-inspired religions of South and Southeast Asia.[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-38030/classification-of-religions C.J. Classification of religions: Geographical. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007]. Accessed: 15 May 2013}}

According to Adams, Far Eastern religions

{{quote|[comprise] the religious communities of China, Japan, and Korea, and consisting of Confucianism, Taoism, Mahāyāna (“Greater Vehicle”) Buddhism, and Shintō.}}

Modern

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=Modernisation=

{{Main|Modernisation}}

Modernisation refers to a model of an evolutionary transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society. The teleology of modernization is described in social evolutionism theories, existing as a template that has been generally followed by societies that have achieved modernity.{{sfn|Brugger|Hannan|1983|p=1–3}}{{sfn|Dixon|1999|p=1–4}} While it may theoretically be possible for some societies to make the transition in entirely different ways, there have been no counterexamples provided by reliable sources.

Historians link modernization to the processes of urbanization and industrialisation, as well as to the spread of education. As Kendall notes, "Urbanization accompanied modernization and the rapid process of industrialization."{{sfn|Kendall|2007|p=11}} In sociological critical theory, modernization is linked to an overarching process of rationalisation. When modernization increases within a society, the individual becomes that much more important, eventually replacing the family or community as the fundamental unit of society.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387301/modernization Encyclopædia Britannica, "Modernisation"]

=Mutual cultural exchange=

Since the late 18th century, an intensive exchange of cultural and religious ideas has been taking place between Asian and western cultures, changing and shaping both cultural hemispheres.{{sfn|McMahan|2008}}{{sfn|Michaels|2004}}{{sfn|Sharf|1993}}{{sfn|Sharf|1995b}}{{sfn|Gombrich|1996}} In 1785 appeared the first western translation of a Sanskrit-text.{{sfn|King|2002}} Since then, modernisation movements appeared in eastern countries and cultures, such as the Brahmo Samaj and Neo-Vedanta in India, Dharmapala's Maha Bodhi Society, and Buddhist modernism in Japan. In the west, as early as the 19th century the Transcendentalists were influenced by Eastern religions, followed by the Theosophical Society, New Thought, Western Buddhism, the Perennial Philosophy of Aldous Huxley, New Age and Nondualism.

Jainism

{{Main|Jainism|List of writers on Jainism}}

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Buddhism

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Hinduism

{{Main|Hinduism|List of writers on Hinduism|}}

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Sikhism

{{Main|Sikhism|List of writers on Sikhism}}

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Sant Mat (India)

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Confucianism

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Taoism

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Western influences

A broad range of western movements have been influenced by, or influenced, eastern cultures and religions.{{CN|date=November 2023}} Among them are Transcendentalism,{{CN|date=November 2023}} the Theosophical Society,{{CN|date=November 2023}} New Thought,{{CN|date=November 2023}} Western Buddhism,{{sfn|McMahan|2008}} the Perennial Philosophy,{{CN|date=November 2023}} New Age and Nondualism.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} Notable examples include:

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References

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  • {{Citation | last =Brugger | first =Bill |first2=Kate |last2=Hannan | year =1983 | title =Modernization and revolution | publisher =Routledge | isbn =0-7099-0695-1}}
  • {{Citation | last =Dixon | first =Simon M. | year =1999 | title =The modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825 | publisher =Cambridge University Press | isbn =0-521-37961-X}}
  • {{Citation | last =Gombrich | first =Richard F. | year =1996 | title =Theravada Buddhism. A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo | place =London and New York | publisher =Routledge}}
  • {{Citation | last =Kendall | first =Diana | year =2007 | title =Sociology in Our Times}}
  • {{Citation | last =King | first =Richard | year =2002 | title =Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East" | publisher =Routledge}}
  • {{Citation | last =McMahan | first =David L. | year =2008 | title =The Making of Buddhist Modernism | publisher =Oxford University Press | ISBN =9780195183276}}
  • {{Citation | last =Michaels | first =Axel | year =2004 | title =Hinduism. Past and present | place =Princeton, New Jersey | publisher =Princeton University Press}}
  • {{Citation | last =Morgan | first =Diane | year =2001 | title =The Best Guide to Eastern Philosophy and Religion | publisher =St. Martin's Griffin | isbn =1-58063-197-5}}
  • {{Citation | last =Sharf | first =Robert H. | title =The Zen of Japanese Nationalism | journal =History of Religions |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=1–43 |date=August 1993 | url =http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Zen_of_Japanese_Nationalism.html}}
  • {{Citation | last =Sharf | first =Robert H. | year =1995a | title =Whose Zen? Zen Nationalism Revisited | url =http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/whose%20zen_sharf.pdf}}
  • {{Citation | last =Sharf | first =Robert H. | year =1995b | title =Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience | journal =NUMEN | volume =42 | url =http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf1995,%20Buddhist%20Modernism.pdf | access-date =2013-05-15 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190412103407/http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf1995,%20Buddhist%20Modernism.pdf | archive-date =2019-04-12 | url-status =dead }}
  • {{Citation | last =Sharf | first =Robert H. | year =1995c | title =Sanbokyodan. Zen and the Way of the New Religions | journal =Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |volume=22 |issue=3-4 | url =http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/sanbokyodan%20zen.pdf}}
  • {{Citation | last =Sharf | first =Robert H. | year =2000 | title =The Rhetoric of Experience and the Study of Religion | journal =Journal of Consciousness Studies | volume =7 | issue =11-12 | pages =267–87 | url =http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf1998,%20Religious%20Experience.pdf | access-date =2013-05-15 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130513104227/http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf1998,%20Religious%20Experience.pdf | archive-date =2013-05-13 | url-status =dead }}

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Further reading

  • {{Citation | last =Nakamura | first =Hajime | year =1991 | title =Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan | place =Delhi | publisher =Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited}}

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