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3. Religion and Development in Asia

Abueva, J. "Alternative Perspectives in Development in ASEAN Countries" Contemporary Southeast Asia 1, no. 2 (1979):141–63.

Bellah, R. N., ed. Religion and Progress in Modern Asia. New York: Free Press, 1965.

Buss, A. E. "Max Weber’s Heritage and Modern Southeast Asian Thinking on Development." Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 12, no. 1 (1984): 1–15.
_______. Max Weber and Asia: Contributions to the Sociology of Development. Munchen: Weltforum Verlag, 1985.

Candland, C. "Faith as Social Capital: Religion and Community Development in Southern Asia." Policy Sciences 33, nos. 3–4 (2000): 355–74.

Daniels, P. L. "Economic Change, the Environment, and Buddhism in Asia." International Journal of Social Economics 25, nos. 6–8 (1998): 968–1004.

Davis, W. "Religion and Development: Weber and the East Asian Experience." In Understanding Political Development, ed. M. Weiner and S. P. Huntington, 221–80. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.

Frank, A. G. Re-orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1998.

Gong, Y., and W. Jang. "Culture and Development: Reassessing Cultural Explanations on Asian Economic Development." Development and Society 27 (1998): 77–98.

Gunatilleke, G., et al., eds. Ethical Dilemmas of Development in Asia. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1983.

Gunatilleke, G. Rethinking Modernisation: An Asian Perspective. Colombo: Marga Institute, 1981.

Hefner, R. W., ed. Market Cultures, Society, and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998.

Kao Cheng-Shu. "Max Weber and the Analysis of East Asian Industrialisation." In The Triadic Chord: Confucian Ethics, Industrial East Asia, and Max Weber. Proceedings of the 1987 Singapore Conference on Confucian Ethics and the Modernisation of Industrial East Asia, ed. Tu Wei-ming, 107–26. Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies, National University of Singapore, 1991.

Ling, T. O. "The Weberian Thesis and Interpretative Positions on Modernisation." In The Triadic Chord: Confucian Ethics, Industrial East Asia, and Max Weber, ed. Tu Wei-ming, 57–85. Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies, National University of Singapore, 1991.

Matthews, B. V., and J. Nagata, eds. Religion, Values, and Development in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986.

Oh Myung-Seok, and Kim Hyung-Jun, eds. Religion, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Southeast Asia. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1998.

Prachayanuporn, P. "Integrating Eastern ‘Spirit’ and Western ‘Science’: Its Implications for a ‘Balanced’ Quality of Life in Asia." PhD thesis, La Trobe University, Bundoora (Australia), 1993.

Shih, J. "Religion Against Development: The Case of China." In Theology Meets Progress, ed. P. Land, 207–48. Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University Press, 1971.

Spae, J. J. "Asian Religious Values and Development." In Religion and Development in Asian Societies: Papers Presented at the Seminar on Religion and Development in Asian Societies organised by Frederich Naumann-Stiftung in Association with the Marga Institute, at the Fatima Retreat House, Lewella, Kandy, 9–16 December 1973, 74–88. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Marga Publications, 1974.

Sulak Sivaraksa. "Rural Poverty and Development in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines." The Ecologist 15, nos. 5–6 (1985): 266–68.
_______. "Development and Environment in Southeast Asia." Zygon 24, no. 4 (1989): 429–36.

Takahashi, A. "Ethics in Developing Economies of Asia." Business Ethics Quarterly 7, no. 3 (1997): 33–45.

Von Der Mehden, F. R. "Religion and Development in South-East Asia: A Comparative Study." World Development 8, nos. 7–8 (1980): 545–53.

Von Der Mehden, F. R. Religion and Modernization in South-East Asia. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Wei-An Chang. "The Weberian Thesis on China and East Asian Development: Some Remarks on the Criticism of Max Weber." Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology (Taipei) 76 (1993): 137–67.

Wickremesinghe, C. L. "Religion and the Ideology of Development." In Religion and Development in Asian Societies: Papers Presented at the Seminar on Religion and Development in Asian Societies organised by Frederich Naumann-Stiftung in Association with the Marga Institute, at the Fatima Retreat House, Lewella, Kandy, 9–16 December 1973, 238–52. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Marga Publications, 1973.

 

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