Religion in Contemporary China (eBook, PDF)

Revitalization and Innovation
Redaktion: Chau, Adam Yuet

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136892264
• Artikelnr.: 43821117

Autorenporträt

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