Liang Yongjia

Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority

The Bai People of Southwest China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of "alterity", which suggests a world beyond here and now. The book focuses on the particular institutions and ritual technologies that seek for access to the invisible, transcendental other-both spatial and temporal. It covers a variety of topics, including pre-modern kingship, modern utopia, religious alterity, ethnic identity, religious associations, the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and temple restorations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590468
• ISBN-10: 0367590468
• Artikelnr.: 69892928

Autorenporträt

Liang Yongjia is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Situating the Field
Chapter 2 Removing Religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s
Chapter 3 Introducing Ethnicity: The Promise of the Utopian Alterity
Chapter 4 Ethnicity Perpetuated: Nanzhao History between China and Thailand
Chapter 5 Religious Revival in Dali and Xizhou
Chapter 6 Culturalization of religion and ethnicity
Chapter 7 Temple lost
Temple Regained: The Sacred Public Space
Conclusion