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Author : Wing-tsit Chan
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015004867092
Author : Wing-tsit Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758174381
Author : Wing-tsit Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:473675857
Author : Wing-tsit Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:258492395
Author : Vincent Goossaert,David A. Palmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226304182
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 : Lan Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077954
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 : Fenggang Yang,Joseph Tamney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004212398
Confucianism is reviving in China and spreading in America. This multidisciplinary volume includes philosophical and theological articulations of Confucianism and other spiritual traditions for the modern and globalizing world, and empirical studies of and analytical reflections on Confucianism and other traditions in Chinese societies by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304642
This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.
Author : Kennith Rayne
Publisher : Socialy Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681177668
In the 1970s it was commonly asserted that Chinese religion, at least as it had existed during Qing dynasty times, had ceased to existal together. But something rather curious occurred between the 1970s to the late 1990s and the present. Chinais home to over 20million Muslims, and the number of mosques, including women only mosques, has been rapidly growing. Chinais also predicted to become the worlds largest Christian nation with in ten years. Tibetan Buddhism, once a minor religion, now a day attracts a large number of followers among the wealthy and educated Chinese middle class. Periodically there is another crack down on religious activity, but it would certainly appear that religion in China today, which is clearly derivative of traditional Chinese religion, with certain modern additions, has come back within creasing force. For the most part, nowadays the Chinese people have relative autonomy to practice any of the officially approved religions, as long as that does not pose a challenge to the established social order or the political status quo. An increasing number of people are availing themselves to the varied opportunities for religious engagement and expression. On the whole, there is a discernible trend towards greater religious participation, although China still comes across as being much more secular when compared to other countries with high levels of religious belief and affiliation, such as the US or India. On the other hand, there is probably more religious participation in China than in much of Europe. Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation provides wide-ranging studies of contemporary religious practices in China. It examines the different processes and me czarisms 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. Along with Chinas astonishing economic grow thin recent years, Chinese religions have enjoyed a remarkable renaissance. Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religious temples have flourished. It focuses on the fact or sunderly ingtheon-going popularity of templecults, local deities, temple festivals, and the privatisation of popular beliefs -- which are all deeply rooted in Chinese rural life. In addition, it tries to offer some new perspectives on the study of urban religion in contemporary China.
Author : Philip Clart,Gregory Adam Scott
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501500190
Research into the print culture of late-Qing and Republican China has revealed a vibrant world of print media. Recent studies have also shown that far from being marginalized, religion in modern China enjoyed widespread popularity and in many cases expanded its field of activity. This book explores how religious ideas and practices in modern China were transformed as a result of their engagement with modern print culture.
Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611685435
Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected modern Chinese religions, from the first all-out assault on them during the 1898 reforms to the eve of the Communist takeover of the mainland. Tracing the ways in which the vast religious resources (texts, expertise, symbolic capital, material wealth, etc.) that circulated throughout Chinese society during the late imperial period were reconfigured during this later era, Katz sheds new light on modern Chinese religious life and the understudied nexus between religion and modern political culture. Religion in China and Its Modern Fate will appeal to a broad audience of religionists and historians of modern China.
Author : David A. Palmer,Glenn Shive,Philip L. Wickeri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199875665
Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China. Instead of adopting the traditional focus on pre-modern religious history and doctrinal traditions, Chinese Religious Life examines the social dimensions of religious life, with essays devoted to religion in urban, rural, and ethnic minority settings; to the religious dimensions of body, gender, environment, and civil society; and to the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of religion in contemporary Chinese society.
Author : Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781509535682
In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China. Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches, anthropologist Adam Yuet Chau's vivid study explores how religion is embedded in contemporary Chinese lives and society, from personal devotion to community-wide festivals. Covering Buddhism, Daoism, and folk religion, as well as Christianity and Islam, this ethnographically rich book provides insights into the contemporary relevance of religious traditions in Chinese societies. By considering the ways in which Chinese people ‘do’ religion, Chau reveals how religious practice plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining a wide range of relationships: between people, spirits, and places; ritual service providers and their customers; the state and religious groups. He argues that relationality is the key anchor of religious lifeworlds, and this insight demands an entirely new way of approaching religion everywhere. This lively account will appeal to those studying or curious about Chinese or East Asian religions, and serves as a perfect gateway to understanding religious practices in China today.
Author : Sin-wai Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429717987
This book is a revised version of the doctoral thesis I presented to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1977. It is basically an attempt to study the religious, cultural and political significance of Buddhism in late Ch'ing intellectual thought through an examination of the writings of a few influential figures like liang Ch'i-ch'ao, K'ang Yu-wei, Chang Ping-lin, and particularly T'an Ssu-t'ung. My findings reveal that Buddhism came to play a part in these reformers' thought as a result of several factors: the rekindled interest in Buddhism brought about through the efforts of laymen such as Yang Wen-hui, the need to find a counter-balance to Christianity, the search for a new unifying ideology for China as Confucianism crumbled before the challenge from the West, and the immense potentiality of Buddhism to cater for the intellectuals' diverse cultural and political purposes. The masterpiece of T'an Ssu-t'ung, entitled An Exposition of Benevolence (Jen-hsiieh), is chosen here to exemplify the use of Buddhism in late Ch'ing political thought. Buddhism not only served as the all-embracing school of his eclectic synthesis, it also formed the foundation of the major concepts in the treatise, and was closely related to his radical thinking.
Author : Xinzhong Yao,Paul Badham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015073929724
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.