Faiths on display

Faiths on display religion, tourism, and the Chinese state / [electronic resource] : edited by Tim Oakes and Donald S. Sutton. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010. - 1 online resource (viii, 283 p.) : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spirit money : tourism and pilgrimage on the sacred slopes of Mount Tai / Brian R. Dott -- Alchemy of the ancestors : rituals of genealogy in the service of the nation in rural China / Tim Oakes -- Pilgrim or tourist? : the transformation of China's revolutionary holy land / Yu Luo Rioux -- Making tourists and remaking locals : religion, ethnicity, and patriotism on display in northern Sichuan / Donald S. Sutton and Xiaofei Kang -- Minzu, market, and the mandala : national exhibitionism and Tibetan Buddhist revival in post-Mao China / Charlene Makley -- Economic development and the Buddhist-industrial complex of Xishuangbanna / Susan K. McCarthy -- Naxi religion in the age of tourism : persistence and (re)creation / Charles F. McKhann -- Tourist itineraries, spatial management, and hidden temples : the revival of religious sites in a water town / Marina Svensson -- The return visits of overseas Chinese to ancestral villages in Putian, Fujian / Kenneth Dean.

9781442205086 (electronic bk.) 1442205083 (electronic bk.)


Religion and state--China.
Tourism--China.
Tourism--Religious aspects.


China--Religion--20th century.
China--Religion--21st century.
China--Religious life and customs.


Electronic books.

BL1803 / .F35 2010eb

203/.5095109051