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Chinese religiosities [electronic resource] : afflictions of modernity and state formation / edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Global, area, and international archivePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 464 p.) : ill., mapISBN:
  • 9780520916203 (electronic bk.)
  • 0520916204 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chinese religiosities.DDC classification:
  • 200.9510904
LOC classification:
  • BL1803 .I58 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Religious approaches to citizenship : the traffic between religious orders and the secular national order -- 1. Religion and citizenship in China and the diaspora / Prasenjit Duara -- 2. Redeploying Confucius : the imperial state dreams of the nation, 1902-1911 / Ya-pei Kuo -- pt. II. State discourse and the transformation of religious communities -- 3. Ritual competition and the modernizing nation-state / Rebecca Nedostup -- 4. Heretical doctrines, reactionary secret societies, evil cults : labeling heterodoxy in twentieth-century China / David A. Palmer -- 5. Animal spirits, karmic retribution, Falungong, and the state / Benjamin Penny -- 6. Christianity and "adaptation to socialism" / Ryan Dunch -- 7. Islam and modernity in China : secularization or separatism? / Dru C. Gladney -- pt. III. The reinvention and control of religious institutions -- 8. Republican church engineering : the national religious associations in 1912 China / Vincent Goossaert -- 9. Secularization as religious restructuring : statist institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and its paradoxes / Ji Zhe -- 10. State control of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the People's Republic of China / José Ignacio Cabezón -- pt. IV. Taiwan and transnational Chinese religiosity -- 11. Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen -- 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.
Summary: "The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Religious approaches to citizenship : the traffic between religious orders and the secular national order -- 1. Religion and citizenship in China and the diaspora / Prasenjit Duara -- 2. Redeploying Confucius : the imperial state dreams of the nation, 1902-1911 / Ya-pei Kuo -- pt. II. State discourse and the transformation of religious communities -- 3. Ritual competition and the modernizing nation-state / Rebecca Nedostup -- 4. Heretical doctrines, reactionary secret societies, evil cults : labeling heterodoxy in twentieth-century China / David A. Palmer -- 5. Animal spirits, karmic retribution, Falungong, and the state / Benjamin Penny -- 6. Christianity and "adaptation to socialism" / Ryan Dunch -- 7. Islam and modernity in China : secularization or separatism? / Dru C. Gladney -- pt. III. The reinvention and control of religious institutions -- 8. Republican church engineering : the national religious associations in 1912 China / Vincent Goossaert -- 9. Secularization as religious restructuring : statist institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and its paradoxes / Ji Zhe -- 10. State control of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the People's Republic of China / José Ignacio Cabezón -- pt. IV. Taiwan and transnational Chinese religiosity -- 11. Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen -- 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.

"The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies"--Provided by publisher.

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