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
Recommended Citation
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
Comments
This is the Publisher PDF of Yang, Fenggang. 2018. “Religion in the Global East: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Scientific Study of Religion.” Religions 9:305. It is published CC-BY and is available at DOI: 10.3390/rel9100305.