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This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries. The focus is on spirituality, medicine and healing from a lived religion perspective. Besides a geographical focus on the Nordic countries and their characteristics, this collection examines the embodied practices aligned with different expressions of religiosity, alternative medicine, spirituality and healing practices. By addressing questions about how so-called Eastern practices are embodied, spread and materialized, the contributors shed light on a cultural change in Nordic societies regarding religious, spiritual and alternative health practices, that are at times at odds with the dominant medical discourse about life-threatening diseases and other types of conditions. Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Katarina Plank is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Chapter 10 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Alternative medicine --- Spirituality --- Asia --- Scandinavia --- Religion. --- Religions. --- East Asia. --- Religion and science. --- Spirituality. --- East Asian Religions. --- Religion and Sciences.

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This book explores the use of Confucianism by the Chinese Communist Party in its assertion of political legitimacy. Confucian thought offers an enduring framework for political legitimacy in East Asian societies, including China. All states strive to acquire legitimacy, and despite once denouncing Confucianism as the remnants of feudal poison, the Party is turning towards Confucianism as part of its legitimation efforts. This suggests that the Party is suffering from an ideological void in terms of legitimacy and legitimation due to the diminishing relevance of Marxism in Chinese societal practices. The book will devise a non-liberal legitimacy framework, drawing on the ideas of Habermas and Bernard Williams, to examine the legitimacy of the Party, and use an analysis of the elite discourse to determine the nature of the Confucian turn, in a sharp polemic that will interest scholars of Chinese politics, of the role of traditional beliefs in Asian modernity, and in China's future. Dr Wai Kong Ng is currently a Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University, England. After a successful career in business, he returned to academia to pursue a long-held interest in Chinese politics. He passed his MA in International Politics with Distinction at Newcastle University, before completing his doctorate in Politics at the University of Leeds.

Confucianism. --- Communist parties. --- Confucianism --- Communist parties --- Asia --- Religions. --- East Asia. --- Political science. --- Asian Politics. --- East Asian Religions. --- Political Theory. --- Politics and government.

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This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains.

Medicine --- Medicine --- Religious aspects. --- Asian medicine. --- Asian religions. --- Ayurveda. --- Science and Religion. --- medical anthropology. --- religion and medicine. --- situating knowledge. --- social construction of medicine. --- traditional medicine.

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Religions --- 291 --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Religious studies --- 21st century --- globalization of religion --- religion and personal life --- religion and social life --- Christianity --- Judaism --- Islam --- Hinduism --- Buddhism --- East-Asian religions --- history of religion

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This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place. Fusing heritage and religion in the novel multidisciplinary concept 'heri-ligion', the authors illuminate the dynamics of change inherent in religious-oriented heritage-making. Grounded in empirical evidence, this rich concept integrates religious tourism, heritage tourism, and community-based empowerment for sustainable development. Applying this unique concept to the once abandoned Hakka village of Yim Tin Tsai, the authors analyse the evolving paths of the island from its Hakka origins to a Christian pilgrimage site, and more recently, to a UNESCO cultural heritage site and thriving tourist destination. The authors foreground the important role of the scattered community as a key agent of change in facilitating a sustainable environment of Hong Kong's only salt-producing place today. A dynamic example of community development and empowerment founded upon religious, cultural, industrial and natural heritage, this book uniquely contributes to tourism and heritage studies, human geography, cultural sociology, Hakka studies, Asian studies, and anthropology of religion. Trevor Sofield is Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In over 400 publications on numerous research projects and consultancies in Europe, Asia, Oceania and Latin America, he has researched on tourism policy, community-based development for poverty alleviation and empowerment, UNESCO World Heritage issues as well as Indigenous and cultural tourism, among others. Lawal Mohammed Marafa is Professor at the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include ecotourism, community-based sustainable development, and leisure and recreation. Fung Mei Sarah Li is a researcher with degrees from Hong Kong, England and Australia. Her research interests cover tourism policy and planning for development, heritage and cultural tourism, as well as geological and cave tourism, among others. Kwo Fung Shek is a talented emerging scholar who, for a decade, has been instrumental in the development of pilgrimage tourism by the Hakka community of Yim Tin Tsai in Hong Kong. .

Hong Kong (China) --- Civilization. --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Sociology. --- Cultural property. --- Human geography. --- Cultural geography. --- Anthropology of religion. --- Tourism. --- Religions. --- East Asia. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Social and Cultural Geography. --- Anthropology of Religion. --- Tourism Economics. --- East Asian Religions.