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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Buddhist Modernities: Modernism and Its Limits -- PART 1 Early Meetings with Modernity -- 2 The Scope and Limits of Secular Buddhism: Watanabe Kaikyoku and the Japanese New Buddhist "Discovery of Society"--3 Buddhism and the Capitalist Transformation of Modern Japan: Sada Kaiseki (1818-1882), Uchiyama Gudō (1874-1911), and Itō Shōshin (1876-1963) -- 4 Parsing Buddhist Modernity in Republican China: Ten Contrasting Terms -- 5 Seeking the Colonizer's Favours for a Buddhist Vision: The Korean Buddhist Nationalist Paek Yongsŏng's (1864-1940) Imje Sŏn Movement -- PART 2 Revivals and Neo-Traditionalist Inventions -- 6 Buddhism in Contemporary Kalmykia: "Pure" Monasticism versus Challenges of Post-Soviet Modernity -- 7 Buddhist Modernity and New-Age Spirituality in Contemporary Mongolia -- 8 Yumaism: A New Syncretic Religion among the Sikkimese Limbus -- PART 3 Contemporary Sangha-State Relations -- 9 Failed Secularization, New Nationalism, and Governmentality: The Rise of Buddhism in Post-Mao China -- 10 Militarized Masculinity with Buddhist Characteristics: Buddhist Chaplains and Their Role in the South Korean Army -- 11 Re-Enchantment Restricted: Popular Buddhism and Politics in Vietnam Today -- 12 "Buddhism Has Made Asia Mild": The Modernist Construction of Buddhism as Pacifism -- PART 4 Institutional Modernity -- 13 Family, Gender, and Modernity in Japanese Shin Buddhism -- 14 Theravāda Nuns in the United States: Modernization and Traditionalization -- 15 Some Reflections on Thích Nhất Hạnh's Monastic Code for the Twenty-First Century -- 16 Modernizing American Zen through Scandal: Is "The Way" Really the Way? -- Index