Religious Organizations and Democratization: Case Studies from Contemporary Asia Book

1	Introduction : the role of religious organizations in Asian democratization	3
2	The Falun Gong : religious and political implications	41
3	"Buddhism for the human realm" and Taiwanese democracy	55
4	New Karma : Buddhism and democratization in Thailand	83
5	The Presbyterian church in the formation of Taiwan's democratic society, 1945-2004	109
6	Christian churches and democratization in South Korea	136
7	The limits of conservative church reformism in the democratic Philippines	157
8	Hong Kong's Catholic Church and the challenge of democratization in the special administrative region	180
9	Islam and democratic transition in Indonesia	221
10	Democracy, the "Islamic state," and embedded realities in Malaysia	242
11	The Soka Gakkai's critical role in the rapidly changing world of postwar Japanese politics	267