Making religion, making the state the politics of religion in modern China / [electronic resource] : edited by Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 294 p.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making religion, making the state in modern China : an introductory essay / Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank -- The politics of religion : late-imperial origins of the regulatory state / Timothy Brook -- Positioning religion in modernity : state and Buddhism in China / Yoshiko Ashiwa -- The Catholic pilgrimage to Sheshan / Richard Madsen and Lizhu Fan -- Pathways to the pulpit : leadership training in "patriotic" and unregistered Chinese Protestant churches / Carsten T. Vala -- Institutionalizing modern "religion" in China's Buddhism : political phases of a local revival / David L. Wank -- Islam in China : state policing and identity politics / Dru C. Gladney -- Further partings of the way : the Chinese state and Daoist ritual traditions in contemporary China / Kenneth Dean -- Expanding the space of popular religion : local temple activism and the politics of legitimation in contemporary rural China / Adam Yuet Chau -- The creation and reemergence of Qigong in China / Utiraruto Otehode.

9780804771139 (electronic bk.) 0804771138 (electronic bk.)


Religion and state--China.
Religion and politics--China.


China--Religion.


Electronic books.

BL65.S8 / M35 2009eb

322/.10951090511