Asian Millenarianism: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Taiping and Tonghak Rebellions in a Global ContextMillenarian movements have been mainly studied from a monotheistic perspective. Traditional explanations for millenarian movements may not be applicable to Asian cases, since Asian millenarian views of salvation differ from non-Asian ones. This groundbreaking book re-examines the Taiping and the Tonghak movements in nineteenth-century Asia using a much wider range of sources than have been used by scholars in the past. It provides an understanding of the movements as an expression, in part, of deeply-rooted Asian spiritual ideas. It also offers historical and philosophical reflections on what studies of Asian millenarianism can contribute to the comparative study of millenarianism. The foreword is by eminent Asian Studies scholar, F. Hilary Conroy. |
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No Death | 23 |
The Chinese Emperor Burned Historical Accounts | 30 |
Nurhachi the Qing and the Taiping | 37 |
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