Popular Belief In Contemporary China

Author : Monika Gaenssbauer
Publisher : Projekt Verlag
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : China
ISBN : 9783897333789

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Popular Belief in Contemporary China by Monika Gaenssbauer Pdf

Topic of this publication is "popular belief in contemporary China". It focuses on the positions of participants in the Chineselanguage discourse rather than taking the current state of research in the Western world as the starting point for its exploration. This study lays open the discursive thread in the People’s Republic of China about indigeneity and the critical reception by Chinese academics of Western research approaches. Many Chinese authors have begun to question the ability of Western theories to adequately explain phenomena in China. This book also deals with discursive strategies of Chinese academics aimed at the legitimation of popular belief and in support of a scientific treatment of popular belief in the People’s Republic of China. The author gives a comprehensive overview of the broad range of positions within this rapidly unfolding social and academic sphere.

Author : Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804767651

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Miraculous Response by Adam Yuet Chau Pdf

This book-length ethnography of the revival of a popular religious temple in contemporary rural China examines the organizational and cultural logics that inform the staging of popular religious activities. It also explores the politics of the religious revival, detailing the relationships of village-level local activists and local state agents wtih temple associations and temple bosses. Shedding light on shifting state-society relationships in the reform era, this book is of interest to scholars and students in Asian Studies, the social sciences, and religious and ritual studies.

Author : Lan Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077954

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Popular Religion in Modern China by Lan Li Pdf

Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country. This book makes a new contribution to the research on the phenomenon by examining the role which popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics. Popular Religion in Modern China uses Nuo as an example of how a popular religion has been directly incorporated into the Chinese Community Party's (CCP) policies and how the religion functions as a tool to maintain socio-political stability, safeguard national unification and raise the country's cultural 'soft power' in the eyes of the world. It provides rich new material on the interplay between contemporary Chinese politics, popular religion and economic development in a rapidly changing society.

Author : Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136892264

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Religion in Contemporary China by Adam Yuet Chau Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136892257

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Religion in Contemporary China by Adam Yuet Chau Pdf

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges to China’s religious traditions but, this book argues, these conditions also presented new opportunities for re-generation and innovation. It shows that economic reforms and the concurrent relaxation of religious policies have provided fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide array of religious practices, including divination, ancestor worship, temple festivals, spirit mediumism, churchgoing, funeral rites, exorcism, pilgrimages, sectarianism, sutra chanting, and the printing and distribution of morality books. Equally new forms of religious practices have emerged such as lay Buddhist preachers, "Maoist shamans", and a range of qigong sects/schools. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts who have all conducted in-depth fieldwork research in China, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It examines the different processes and mechanisms of religious revivals and innovations, and, more broadly, relates the Chinese example of religious revitalization to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.

Author : Yoshiko Ashiwa,David L. Wank
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804758413

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Making Religion, Making the State by Yoshiko Ashiwa,David L. Wank Pdf

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China.

Author : Emily Dunn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004297258

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Lightning from the East by Emily Dunn Pdf

Lightning from the East uncovers the teachings and activities of Chinese Protestant-related new religious movements such as the Church of Almighty God, how Chinese authorities and Christians have responded to them, and how they fit with Chinese religion and global Christianity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415870143

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Religion in Contemporary China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Khek Gee Lim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136204999

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Christianity in Contemporary China by Francis Khek Gee Lim Pdf

Christianity is one of the fastest growing religions in China. Despite its long history in China and its significant indigenization or intertwinement with Chinese society and culture, Christianity continues to generate suspicion among political elites and intense debates among broader communities within China. This unique book applies socio-cultural methods in the study of contemporary Christianity. Through a wide range of empirical analyses of the complex and highly diverse experience of Christianity in contemporary China, it examines the fraught processes by which various forms and practices of Christianity interact with the Chinese social, political and cultural spheres. Contributions by top scholars in the field are structured in the following sections: Enchantment, Nation and History, Civil Society, and Negotiating Boundaries. This book offers a major contribution to the field and provides a timely, wide-ranging assessment of Christianity in Contemporary China.

Author : Shawn Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429812545

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Contemporary Religions in China by Shawn Arthur Pdf

Folk and popular religion is a very significant part of Chinese religious life, especially in rural areas. Contemporary Religions in China focuses on the religious activities of the lay people of contemporary China and their ideas of what it means to be "religious" and to practice "religion". Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with case studies, textboxes, images, thought questions, and further reading, which help to capture what religion is like, how and why it is practiced, and what ‘religion’ means for everyday people across China in the twenty-first century. Contemporary Religions in China is an ideal introduction to religion in China for undergraduate students of religion, Chinese studies, and anthropology.

Author : Stephan Feuchtwang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786437969

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Handbook on Religion in China by Stephan Feuchtwang Pdf

Informative and eye-opening, the Handbook on Religion in China provides a uniquely broad insight into the contemporary Chinese variations of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. In turn, China's own religions and transmissions of rites and systems of divination have spread beyond China, a progression that is explored in detail across 19 chapters, written by leading experts in the field.

Author : Xinzhong Yao,Paul Badham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015073929724

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Religious Experience in Contemporary China by Xinzhong Yao,Paul Badham Pdf

This fascinating and timely volume analyzes data from a four-year study of the religious experience in contemporary China--the results of which will radically transform the understanding of the role religion plays in twenty-first-century Chinese culture. Focused on the Han Chinese, who make up more than ninety percent of mainland China's population, Religious Experience in Contemporary China considers that groundbreaking research in an almost wholly new context: though the suppression of religion by communist authorities in the latter part of the twentieth century is well documented, much less is known about the underlying resurgence of religious life within the world's most populous nation. Until recently, such research would not have been permitted, and the fascinating results presented here make Religious Experience in Contemporary China an essential addition to the increasing amounts of publications on China in the new age.

Author : Stefania Travagnin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317534525

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Religion and Media in China by Stefania Travagnin Pdf

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland China (including Tibet), Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as diasporic Chinese communities outside Asia, contributors consider topics including the historical and ideological roots of media representations of religion, expressions of religious faith online and in social media, state intervention (through both censorship and propaganda), religious institutions’ and communities’ use of various forms of media, and the role of the media in relations between online/offline and local/diaspora communities. Chapters engage with the major religious traditions practiced in contemporary China, namely Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and new religious movements. Religion and the Media in China serves as a critical survey of case studies and suggests theoretical and methodological tools for a thorough and systematic study of religion in modern China. Contributors to the volume include historians of religion, sinologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and media and communication scholars. The critical theories that contributors develop around key concepts in religion—such as authority, community, church, ethics, pilgrimage, ritual, text, and practice—contribute to advancing the emerging field of religion and media studies.

Author : Xiaofei Kang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231133388

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The Cult of the Fox by Xiaofei Kang Pdf

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China. In this new work, the first to examine the fox cult as a vibrant popular religion, Xiaofei Kang explores the manifold meanings of the fox spirit in Chinese society. Kang describes various cult practices, activities of worship, and the exorcising of fox spirits to reveal how the Chinese people constructed their cultural and social values outside the gaze of offical power and morality.

Author : Xisha Ma,Huiying Meng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004174559

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Popular Religion and Shamanism by Xisha Ma,Huiying Meng Pdf

Popular Religion and Shamanism addresses two areas of religion within Chinese society; the lay teachings that Chinese scholars term folk or “popular” religion, and shamanism. Each area represents a distinct tradition of scholarship, and the book is therefore split into two parts. Part I: Popular Religion discusses the evolution of organized lay movements over an arc of ten centuries. Its eight chapters focus on three key points: the arrival and integration of new ideas before the Song dynasty, the coalescence of an intellectual and scriptural tradition during the Ming, and the efflorescence of new organizations during the late Qing. Part II: Shamanism reflects the revived interest of scholars in traditional beliefs and culture that reemerged with the “open” policy in China that occurred in the 1970s. Two of the essays included in this section address shamanism in northeast China where the traditions played an important role in the cultures of the Manchu, Mongol, Sibe, Daur, Oroqen, Evenki, and Hezhen. The other essay discusses divination rites in a local culture of southwest China.