This volume contains...
Editors' Introduction
Benjamin Dorman and Frank J. Korom
Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue: Religious Authority in East Asia: Materiality, Media and Aesthetics
Erica Baffelli and Jane Caple
Devotion in Flesh and Bone: The Mummified Corpses of Mount Yudono Ascetics in Edo- Period Japan
Andrea Castiglioni
Terry Hu: Writing Her Transition from Actor to New Age Authority in Taiwan
Paul J. Farrelly
Religiously Inspired Charitable Organizations (RICOs) and Their Quest for Religious Authority and Recognition in Contemporary China
Caroline Fielder
More than Just a Photo?: Aura Photography in Digital Japan
Ioannis Gaitanidis
Popular Christianity, Sensation, and Ling’en Authority in Contemporary China
Mark McLeister
“This Is Not a Powerspot”: Heritage Tourism, Sacred Space, and Conflicts of Authority at Sēfa Utaki
Aike P. Rots
The Ethnic Identity of Turkmenistan’s Baloch
Petr Kokaisl, Pavla Kokaislová
Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962 (Bérénice Guyot-Réchard)
Alex McKay
Religions as Brands: New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality (Jean-Claude Usunier and Jörg Stolz, eds.)
Patrick McCartney
Place/No Place in Urban Asian Religiosity (Joanne Punzo Waghorne, ed.)
Mugdha Yeolekar
Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City (Benoît Vermander, Liz Hingley, and Liang Zhang, eds.)
Adam Yuet Chau
Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China (Nadine Amsler)
Simeiqi He
Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China (Ellen Oxfeld)
Xu Siyuan
Social Media in South India: Why We Post (Shriram Venkatraman)
Arvind Rajagopal
Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India; An Exploration of the Kōlam (Vijaya Nagarajan)
Katie Lazarowicz
Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia: Living with Bengali Bauls (Kristin Hanssen)
Carola Erika Lorea
Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926–1945 (Hikari Hori)
Charles Exley
The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875–1950 (Brian McVeigh)
Clark Chilson
Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (Levi McLaughlin)
Ian Reader
Shinto: A History (Helen Hardacre)
Peter Knecht
Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border (Coralynn V. Davis)
Michele Ruth Gamburd
The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka (Jim Sykes)
Michele Ruth Gamburd
Base Encounters: The U.S. Armed Forces in South Korea (Elisabeth Schober)
Daniel A. Métraux
Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions (Roald Maliangkay)
Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform (Theresia Hofer)
Barbara Gerke
The Rise of Gönpo Namgyel in Kham: The Blind Warrior of Nyarong (Yudru Tsomu)
Alex McKay