Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian Cultural Contexts

Chapter 1. Introduction: Global Darwinism in Asian Cultural, Historical, and Religious Contexts (C. Mackenzie Brown).- Part 1. Islamic Responses.- Chapter 2. The Politics of Islamic Opposition to Evolution in Turkey (Taner Edis).- Chapter 3. South Asian Muslim Responses to Darwinism (Martin Riexinger).- Chapter 4. Islamic Responses to Darwinism in the Persianate World (Kamran Arjomand).- Part 2. South Asia: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Responses.- Chapter 5. Karmic versus Organic Evolution: The Hindu Encounter with Modern Evolutionary Science (C. Mackenzie Brown).- Chapter 6. The Hindu Evolutionary Heritage and Hindu Criticism of Darwinism (Dermot Killingley).- Chapter 7. Sri Aurobindo's Theory of Spiritual Evolution (Peter Heehs).- Chapter 8. Jainism and Darwin: Evolution Beyond Orthodoxy (Brianne Donaldson).- Chapter 9. Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Responses to Darwinism (Roger R. Jackson).- Part 3.- East Asian Responses.- Chapter 10. Progress and Purposiveness in Chinese Philosophies: A Darwinian Critique (Nicholas S. Brasovan).- Chapter 11. Yan Fu's Xunzian-Confucian Translation of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (Kuan-yen Liu).- Chapter 12. Yan Fu's Daoist Reinterpretation of Evolutionism (Kuan-yen Liu).- Chapter 13. Dependent Co-Evolution: Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid and Its Appropriation by Chinese Buddhists (Justin Ritzinger).- Chapter 14. Japanese Responses to Evolutionary Theory, with Particular Focus on Nichiren Buddhists (Yulia Burenina).