Religion in the Global East: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Scientific Study of Religion (original) (raw)

Abstract

This essay is based on the Presidential Address at the East Asian Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Inaugural Conference on 3–5 July 2018 in Singapore. It discusses some aspects of the key concepts, some of the distinct characteristics of religion in East Asia, and some implications for the social scientific study of religion in general.

Keywords

Global East; religion; religiosity; atheism; Sheilaism; spiritual but not religious

Date of this Version

2018

Yang, Fenggang, "Religion in the Global East: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Scientific Study of Religion" (2018). Department of Sociology Faculty Publications. Paper 25.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/socpubs/25

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