This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.
Adam Yuet Chau is University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Revitalizing and Innovating Religious Traditions in Contemporary China 2. Buddhism in the Reform Era: A Secularized Revival? 3. Morality Books and the Re-Growth of Lay Buddhism in China 4. From Ritual Skills to Discursive Knowledge: Changing Styles of Daoist Transmission in Shanghai 5. Networks and the "Cloudlike Wandering" of Daoist Monks in China Today 6. Temples as Enterprises 7. Revival in Crisis: Amateur Ritual Associations in Hebei 8. Chinese Religious Innovation in the Qigong Movement: The Case of Zhonggong 9. Global Modernity, Local Community, and Spiritual Power in the Shanxi Catholic Church
1. Introduction: Revitalizing and Innovating Religious Traditions in Contemporary China 2. Buddhism in the Reform Era: A Secularized Revival? 3. Morality Books and the Re-Growth of Lay Buddhism in China 4. From Ritual Skills to Discursive Knowledge: Changing Styles of Daoist Transmission in Shanghai 5. Networks and the "Cloudlike Wandering" of Daoist Monks in China Today 6. Temples as Enterprises 7. Revival in Crisis: Amateur Ritual Associations in Hebei 8. Chinese Religious Innovation in the Qigong Movement: The Case of Zhonggong 9. Global Modernity, Local Community, and Spiritual Power in the Shanxi Catholic Church
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