Readling list/syllabus according to organization of lectures
What is religion
Asad, Talal. "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category." In Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 27-54.
Josephson, Jason Ananda. "The Invention of Religions in East Asia." In Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia, edited by Bryan S. Turner and Oscar Salemink. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015, pp. 17-29.
How to read and translate
Biguenet, John and Rainer Schulte, Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992, pp. 144-152, 193-204.
What is modernity?
Delanty, Gerard, “Modernity”, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x.
Eisenstadt, S. N., “Multiple Modernities”, Deadalus, vol. 129, no. 1 (2000): 1-29.
Norris, Pipa and Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, chapter 1.
Japan
Josephson, Jason A., The Invention of Religion in Japan, ch. 7 & 8
Breen, John, ed., Yasukuni, the war dead, and the struggle for Japan’s past, ch. 3 & 6
Nelson, John, Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and activism in contemporary Japan, ch. 4
China
Goossaert, V. & D. Palmer: The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, chapters 2, 7, 12 (to p. 349)
Goossaert, V. & D. Palmer: The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, chapters 8, 12 (from p. 350), 13
Goossaert, V. & D. Palmer: The Religious Question in Modern China, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, chapters 4 and 11
How to do fieldwork
Murchinson, Julian M., Ethnography Essentials: Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010, pp. 3-18 (mandatory), 67-114 (recommended).
Davies, Charlotte Aull, Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008, pp. 3-27.
Schnell, Scott, "Conducting Fieldwork on Japanese Religions." In Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, eds. Paul L. Swanson & Clark Chilson, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 381-391.
Korea
Baker, Don, “The Religious Revolution in Modern Korean History: From Ethics to Theology and from Ritual Hegemony to Religious Freedom”, The Review of Korean Studies, vol. 9 no. 3 (September 2006): 249-275
Kim, Andrew, “The History of Christianity in Korea”, Korea Journal (Summer 1995): 34-53
Jang Sukman, “Protestantism in the Name of Modern Civilization, Korea Journal (Winter 1999): 187-204
Buswell, Robert (ed.), Christianity in Korea, University of Hawaii Press, 2006, pp. 97-116, 195-258, 309-330
Park, Pori, Trial and Errors in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule. University of California Press, 2009, pp. 69-118.
Park, Jin Y., Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism, State University of New York, 2010, pp. 109-131, 275-315
How to do oral presentations
Van der Veer, Peter, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 1-34 (mandatory reading for all students); selected chapters (each student has to read, summarise and present one chapter as presentation practice).
East Asian religion in the West
Lopez, Donald, Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 15-86
?i?ek, Slavoj, “From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism”, Cabinet (Issue 2, 2001): http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/western.php
?i?ek, Slavoj, “Revenge of Global Finance”, In These Times (May 21, 2005): http://inthesetimes.com/article/2122
Vietnam
Taylor, Philip. "Modernity and Re-enchantment in Post-revolutionary Vietnam." In Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam, edited by Philip Taylor. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2007, pp. 1-56.