Marxism and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

In Marxism and Religion leading Chinese scholars and senior cadres introduce theoretical explorations of religion as well as half scholarly and ideological reformulations of Marxist perspectives on religion, an edifice earning mixed reception in China's kaleidoscopic religious life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9789004174566
• ISBN-10: 9004174567
• Artikelnr.: 42208513

Autorenporträt

Lü Daji (1931 - 2012) was a Senior Research Fellow of Religious Studies at the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He was a leading Marxist scholar and published numerous monographs and articles on religion. Gong Xuezeng is Professor of Religious Studies at the CCP's Central Party School. He has published dozens of books devoted to topics such as relations existing between religion and socialism and roles religion plays in China's peaceful development. Chi Zhen, Ph.D. (2007), National University of Singapore, is Associate Research Fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has published monographs and articles on Chinese intellectual history. He teaches modern Chinese history at China Executive Leadership Academy Jinggangshan. Thomas David DuBois is Senior Research Fellow in Chinese history at the Australian National University. He is author of Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Hawaii, 2005), and Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge, 2011), and has also written on the economic, legal and social history of the Chinese northeast.