Pan-Asianism's religious undercurrents

• Verfasst von: Krämer, Hans Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Pan-Asianism's religious undercurrents
• Titelzusatz: the reception of Islam and translation of the Qur'ān in twentieth-century Japan
• Verf.angabe: Hans Martin Krämer
• E-Jahr: 2014
• Jahr: 16 September 2014
• Umfang: 22 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 21.04.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The journal of Asian studies
• Ort Quelle: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1956
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: 73(2014), 3, Seite 619-640
• ISSN Quelle: 1752-0401
• DOI: doi:10.1017/S0021911814000989
• Schlagwörter: (s)Geschichte / (s)Regionalismus / (s)Politischer Prozess / (s)Regionalentwicklung / (s)Islam / (s)Übersetzung / (s)Ursache / (g)Japan / (g)Asien
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druckausgabe: Krämer, Hans Martin, 1972 - : Pan-Asianism's religious undercurrents. - 2014
• K10plus-PPN: 1695261194

Abstract

Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur˒ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the sociopolitical contexts of the translations and the biographical backgrounds of the translators. While explicitly anti-modern, anti-Western, and anti-Christian notions were at work in these broadly pan-Asianist Japanese appropriations of Islam, an analysis of the terminology used in the translations shows that, ironically, Christian precedents were not easily overcome.