Evolutionary Theory and the Construction of a Religion of the Future in the East

This presentation looks at the transnational history of monism, a movement which emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century and sought to combine science and religion based on Darwinian principles. It examines how monist ideas were transmitted from Germany to Japan and then to Korea, and how this process created new transmutations along the way, impacting local efforts to imagine a religion of the future - with various consequences.