Introduction to Section 1 / Paul Hedges -- Section 1. Rowland Williams : Christianity and Hinduism (England, 1856) / Introduction to Section 1 / Björn Bentlage -- Anonymous: Which One Is the Right Religion for China's Future? (China, 1905) / Heiner Roetz -- Ouyang Jingwu Buddhism Is neither Religion nor Philosophy but What the Present Generation Is in Need of (China, 1922) / Gotellnd Müller -- Yaroe (Nightthunder) alias Yi Tonhwa [On] the Necessity of Reform of Religion (Korea, 1920) / Andreas Müller-Lee -- Gendun Chopel : Grains of Gold--Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveller (Tibet, 1941) / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. -- Chaophraya Thiphakorawong : A Book on Various Things (Thailand, 1867) / Sven Trakulhun -- Swami Vivekananda : Reason and Religion (England, 1896) / Torkel Brekke -- Muhammad Iqbal : Is Religion Possible? (Pakistan, 1932) / Aslam Syed -- Yūsuf al-Nabhānī : Poem of the Short 'R' in Defaming Innovation and Praising the Esteemed Tradition (Lebanon, 1908/09) / Amal Ghazal -- Ḥusayn al-Jisr al-ṬarābulusI : The Hamidian Treatise (Lebanon, 1888) / Björn Bentlage -- Muḥammad ʻAbduh : The Theology of Unity (Egypt, 1898) / Johann Büssow -- Necmeddīn ʻĀrif : Studying in Paris (Egypt, 1904/05) / Leyla von Mende -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky : Isis Unveiled--A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (United States, 1877) / Gauri Vlswanathan -- Ludwig Ankenbrand : Buddhism and the Modem Reform Efforts (Germany, 1911) / Jörg Albrecht -- Rowland Williams : Christianity and Hinduism (England, 1856) / Paul Hedges -- Introduction to Section 2 / Paul de Lagarde : On the Relationship of the German State to Theology, Church and Religion--An Attempt at Orientation for Non-Theologians (Germany, 1873) / Introduction to Section 2 / Knut Martin Stünkel -- Kang Youwei : Report to the Throne, with a Petition for Fixing through Consultation a Law Concerning Religious Cases [...] (China, 1898) / Heiner Roetz -- Shimaji Mokurai : Petition in Criticism of the Three Articles of Instruction (Japan, 1872) / Hans Martin Krämer -- Haji Omar Said Tjokroaminoto : Islam and Socialism (Indonesia, 1924/1963) / Al Makin -- Muhammad Iqbal : Presidential Address to the 25th Annual Session of the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad (India, 1930) / Aslam Syed -- Dayānanda Sarasvatl: The Light of Truth (India, 1884) / Dermot Killingley -- Rashīd Riḍā : Introduction to the First Annual Volume of al-Manār (Egypt, 1909) / Stefan Reichmuth -- Moḥammad Ḥoseyn Naʼīnī : Government from the Perspective of Islam (Iran, 1909) / Katajun Amirpur -- George B. Nutting : Letter to the Missionary Herald (Turkey, 1860) and Baha Said Bey : Alevi Communities in Turkey--(Turkey, 1926) / Markus Dressler -- Aḥad haAm : Slavery within Freedom (Russia, 1891) Valentina Munz -- Paul de Lagarde : On the Relationship of the German State to Theology, Church and Religion--An Attempt at Orientation for Non-Theologians (Germany, 1873) / Elisabeth Hollender, Knut Martin Stünkel -- Introduction to Section 3 / Carrying the Gospel to All the Non-Christian World (Resolution of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh) (Scotland, 1910) / Introduction to Section 3 / Marvin Döbler. Pak Ŭnsik : On Renewing Confucianism (Korea, 1909) / Marion Eggert -- Watanabe Kaigyoku : The Hopes of Buddhists for the Peace Conference (Japan, 1918) / John S. LoBreglio -- Shaku Sōen : Strenuous Endeavors (Japan, 1912) / Helen A. Findley -- R. G. Bhandarkar : The Basis of Theism and its Relation to the So-Called Revealed Religions (India, 1883) / Dermot Killingley -- Ghulām Aḥmad al-Qādiyānī : The Messiah of the Christians--Peace upon Him--in India (India, 1908) / Jonathan Korbel, Claudia Preckel -- ʻAbbās Afandī ʻAbd al-Bahāʼ : Treatise on Civilisation (Iran, 1875) / Oliver Scharbrod -- Speech to the Former French Prime Minister Joseph Caillaux on the Occasion of His Stay in Beirut in May 1912, Written by Members of the Masonic Lodge Le Liban (Lebanon, 1912) / Sarah Büssow-Schmitz -- Henry Steel Olcott : The Buddhist Catechism (India, 1881/1908) / Sven Bretfeld, Helmut Zander -- Hermann Cohen : Germanness and Judaism (Germany, 1916) / Görge K. Hasselhoff, Knut Martin Stünkel -- Max Müller : Chips from a German Workshop (England, 1867) / Arie L Molendijk -- Carrying the Gospel to All the Non-Christian World (Resolution of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh) (Scotland, 1910) / Christoph Auffarth, Marvin Döbler.
Summary:
This sourcebook offers rare insights into a formative period in the modern history of religions. Throughout the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when commercial, political and cultural contacts intensified worldwide, politics and religions became ever more entangled. This volume offers a wide range of translated source texts from all over Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, thereby diminishing the difficulty of having to handle the plurality of involved languages and backgrounds. The ways in which the original authors, some prominent and others little known, thought about their own religion, its place in the world and its relation to other religions, allows for much needed insight into the shared and analogous challenges of an age dominated by imperialism and colonialism.
Series:
Numen book series : studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; volume 154
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