The rise of new religious movements (NRMs) in Asia has had significant impacts on both contemporary global religious practices and on contemporary geopolitics more broadly, yet they remain understudied as Asian movements. Movements like the Unification World Church and the Art of Living, while analyzed in terms of their global spread and transnational popularity, are rarely studied as Asian religions, drawing from Indigenous and regional traditions and histories of encounter, change, and adaptation. This edited volume seeks to recover Asian NRMs as regional products, taking up a wide variety of movements as expressions of the religiosity of multiple Asian traditions. A geographically and methodologically expansive volume, it asks: What is it about Asia in particular that has produced such a breadth of NRMs of various forms and devotional expressions, and how can scholars recover the local within movements that seem inherently built for transnational spread? Each of the twelve authors...

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