David W. Kim is associate professor of Asian history, College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul and visiting fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra.
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Foreword by Eileen Barker Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction David W. Kim Part One: West, South, and Southeast Asia The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat: A New Religious Movement Derived from Islam? Lauren Dover Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Art of Living and the International Association for Human Values Catharine Dada The Radhasoami Satsang: A New Religion between Mysticism and Social Service Fabio Scialpi When New is Not-So-New: On the Meaning of "Modern" in a New Tibetan Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition Lionel Obadia The Thanh Ngon Hiep Tuyen: Translating and Understanding the Central Scripture of Caodaism Christopher Hartney Part Two: East Asia The Filial Sectarian: Confucian Values and Popular Sects in Late Imperial China and Modern Taiwan Nikolas Broy International Moral Association (IMA): A Chinese New Religious Movement in Modern Korea David W. Kim The (New) Religious Dimensions of Juche-Kimilsungism Emma Leverton Dislocating Soka Gakkai International: The Case of Soka Gakkai International-Czech Republic Petra Tlcimukova Scriptures and Their Restoration: A Case Study of Tenrikyo Jiro Sawai Aum Shinrikyo: Millenarianism, Anti-Semitism, and Fundamentalism Leonardo Sacco About the Editor and Contributors