Mayfair Yang

Gebundenes Buch

Re-Enchanting Modernity

Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China

Beschreibung

Mayfair Yang examines the reemergence of religious life and ritual after decades of enforced secularized life in the coastal city of Wenzhou, showing how local practices of popular religion, Daoism, and Buddhism influence economic development and the structure of civil society.

Autor

Mayfair Yang is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China; and editor of Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation and Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007753
• ISBN-10: 1478007753
• Artikelnr.: 57836495