Faiths on Display

Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
Herausgeber: Oakes, Tim; Sutton, Donald S.

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Produktbeschreibung

By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Throughout China, spaces for religious expression and practice have been rebuilt, revived, and contrived for display by local officials hoping to cash in on tourist revenue. Faiths on Display argues, however, that the results of the state's instrumental approach toward religion are far from predictable. The volume explores the ways revived religious practices and commercial tourism development intersect in China, offering surprising insights into the contested nature of state governance in a rapidly transforming society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781442205062
• ISBN-10: 1442205067
• Artikelnr.: 30164028

Autorenporträt

Edited by Tim Oakes and Donald S. Sutton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Spirit Money: Tourism and Pilgrimage on the Sacred
Slopes of Mount Tai Chapter 2: Alchemy of the Ancestors: Rituals of
Genealogy in the Service of the Nation in Rural China Chapter 3: Pilgrim or
Tourist? The Transformation of China's Revolutionary Holy Land Chapter 4:
Making Tourists and Remaking Locals: Religion, Ethnicity, and Patriotism on
Display in Northern Sichuan Chapter 5: Minzu, Market, and the Mandala:
National Exhibitionism and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
Chapter 6: Economic Development and the Buddhist-Industrial Complex of
Xishuangbanna Chapter 7: Naxi Religion in the Age of Tourism: Persistence
and (Re)creation Chapter 8: Tourist Itineraries, Spatial Management, and
Hidden Temples: The Revival of Religious Sites in a Water Town Chapter 9:
The Return Visits of Overseas Chinese to Ancestral Villages in Putian,
Fujian Afterword