Chinese religiosities : afflictions of modernity and state formation /

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

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"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 pra...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: International Conference on Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan University of California, Santa Barbara
Other Authors: Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Series:Global, area, and international archive.
Subjects:
Religion and state > China > History > 20th century.
Civilization.
Religion.
Religion and state.
China > Religion > 20th century.
China > Civilization > 20th century.
China.
Electronic book.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History
Table of 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.

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