Chinese religiosities : afflictions of modernity and state formation / edited by 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 pra...
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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c2008.
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Series: | Global, area, and international archive.
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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.