Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto and various folk religions can be grouped together as East Asian religions. They hold in common the idea of the Tao (pronounced "dao"), which means the "way" or the ...

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A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the ...

and an analysis of the religious and intellectual conceptual framework of the Korean and East Asian peoples. His research is broadly anthropological in approach with an interest in both the ancient ...

Asia is home to more than 4.5 billion people, around 60% of the world’s population. It spans from China to India to the Middle East and was home to the world’s earliest civilizations as well as the ...