Journal Of Chinese Religions

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015079723360

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Journal of Chinese Religions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xinping Zhuo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811063794

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Religious Faith of the Chinese by Xinping Zhuo Pdf

This book comprehensively examines religious faith in China from the perspective of cultural philosophy and cultural history. It explores the social, political, cultural and spiritual meanings of religions, tracing their historical development and related paradigm shifts. It also analyzes the characteristics of the country’s local religions and the process of indigenization of world religions, and describes the peaceful co-existence and harmonious confluence of multiple religions in Chinese spiritual life, revealing the vibrant and diverse colors of its religious culture. Examining these religions’ social and cultural functions in contemporary Chinese society, the book demonstrates the rich and complex intertwinement of religious faith, cultural spirit and national disposition among the Chinese people.

Author : Fenggang Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004369900

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Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts by Fenggang Yang Pdf

The speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique atlas presents a bird’s-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China’s major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels. The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China’s main religions, as well as the social and demographic characteristics of their respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative, quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in contemporary China. An essential resource for all scholars and students of religion and society in China.

Author : Richard Madsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004465183

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The Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below by Richard Madsen Pdf

“Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? Where will it lead? This book is one of the first in English that answers these questions.

Author : Alan K. L. Chan,Yuet-Keung Lo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438431895

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Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China by Alan K. L. Chan,Yuet-Keung Lo Pdf

Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about "heaven" and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced and demanded reconsideration. New currents in philosophy, religion, and intellectual life emerged to leave an indelible mark on the subsequent development of Chinese thought and culture. This period saw the rise of xuanxue ("dark learning" or "learning of the mysterious Dao"), the establishment of religious Daoism, and the rise of Buddhism. In examining the key ideas of xuanxue and focusing on its main proponents, the contributors to this volume call into question the often-presumed monolithic identity of this broad philosophical front. The volume also highlights the richness and complexity of religion in China during this period, examining the relationship between the Way of the Celestial Master and local, popular religious beliefs and practices, and discussing the relationship between religious Daoism and Buddhism.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101870051

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The Souls of China by Ian Johnson Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).

Author : Michael Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0231193572

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Stating the Sacred - Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State by Michael Walsh Pdf

Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Focusing primarily on China, Michael J. Walsh argues that the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states.

Author : Muzhou Pu,Harold Allen Drake,Lisa Ann Raphals
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190278359

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Old Society, New Belief by Muzhou Pu,Harold Allen Drake,Lisa Ann Raphals Pdf

For the first time scholars in the study of early Christianity and early Chinese Buddhism put their efforts together and compare what had happened when a new belief entered into an old society: What were the reactions, rejections, adjustments, or adaptations both societies experienced? What can we learn from this comparison?

Author : André Laliberté,Stefania Travagnin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110547801

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State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches by André Laliberté,Stefania Travagnin Pdf

The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a variety of analytical approaches and theories about methodology, epistemology, and the ontology of the field. The three books display an interdisciplinary approach and offer debates that transcend national traditions. It engages with a variety of methodologies for the study of East Asian religions and promotes dialogues with Western and Chinese voices. This volume covers successive historical stages in the study of religion in modern China, draws out the genealogy of major figures and intellectual achievements in a variety of research traditions, and highlights as well the challenges and evolutions experienced by the main disciplines in the last 30 years. This volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested by religions in modern Chinese societies (i.e., mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese communities oversea). Using a wide range of methods, from textual analysis to fieldwork, it presents case studies via the disciplines of religious studies, anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : UVA:X004995827

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Chinese Religions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780739180600

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Chinese Religious Art by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky Pdf

Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical eras including the Shang dynasty (1300-1050 BCE) and Zhou Dynasty(1000-221 BCE) up until the era of the First Emperor (221-210 BCE) Part Two treats Confucianism as a religious tradition examining its scriptures, images, temples and rituals. Adopted as the state ideology in the Han dynasty, Confucian ideas permeated society for over two thousand years. Filial piety, ethical behavior and other principles shaped the pictorial arts. Part Three considers the various schools of Daoist belief and their expression in art. The ideas of a utopian society and the pursuit of immortality characterize this religion from its earliest phase. Daoism has an elaborate pantheon and ritualistic art, as well as a secular tradition best expressed in monochrome ink painting. Part Four covers the development of Buddhist art beginning with its entry into China in the second century. Its monuments—comprised largely of cave temples carved high in the mountains along the frontiers of China and large metropolitan temples —provide evidence of its evolution including the adoption of savior cults of the Buddha of the Western Paradise, the Buddha of the Future, the rise of Ch’an (Zen) and esoteric Buddhism. In their development, these various religious traditions interacted, sharing art, architecture, iconography and rituals. By the twelfth century a stage of syncretism merged all three traditions into a popular religion. All the religions are reviving after their extirpation during the Cultural Revolution. Using historical records and artistic evidence, much of which has not been published, this study examines their individual and shared manner of worshipping the divine forces.

Author : Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226304182

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The Religious Question in Modern China by Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer Pdf

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present. Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.

Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691234601

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Religions of China in Practice by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Pdf

This third volume of Princeton Readings in Religions demonstrates that the "three religions" of China--Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism (with a fourth, folk religion, sometimes added)--are not mutually exclusive: they overlap and interact with each other in a rich variety of ways. The volume also illustrates some of the many interactions between Han culture and the cultures designated by the current government as "minorities." Selections from minority cultures here, for instance, are the folktale of Ny Dan the Manchu Shamaness and a funeral chant of the Yi nationality collected by local researchers in the early 1980s. Each of the forty unusual selections, from ancient oracle bones to stirring accounts of mystic visions, is preceded by a substantial introduction. As with the other volumes, most of the selections here have never been translated before. Stephen Teiser provides a general introduction in which the major themes and categories of the religions of China are analyzed. The book represents an attempt to move from one conception of the "Chinese spirit" to a picture of many spirits, including a Laozi who acquires magical powers and eventually ascends to heaven in broad daylight; the white-robed Guanyin, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities in China; and the burning-mouth hungry ghost. The book concludes with a section on "earthly conduct."

Author : Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691188171

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Religions of Tibet in Practice by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Pdf

Originally published in 1997, Religions of Tibet in Practice is a landmark work--the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition--abridged to further facilitate course use--presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the Tibetan religious landscape over the centuries. Organized thematically, the twenty-eight chapters are testimony to the vast scope of religious practice in the Tibetan world, past and present. Religions of Tibet in Practice remains a work of great value to scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : Laurence G. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015057167135

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Studies of Chinese Religion by Laurence G. Thompson Pdf