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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820174203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-35612-7

9786612356124

0-520-91620-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Global, area, and international archive

Altri autori (Persone)

YangMayfair Mei-hui

Disciplina

200.951/0904

Soggetti

Religion and state - China - History - 20th century

China Religion 20th century

China Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented at the International Conference on Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan, held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 28-20, 2005"--P. vii.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-435) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.Contributors: José Cabezón, Prasenjit Duara, Ryan Dunch, Dru C. Gladney, Vincent Goossaert, Ji Zhe, Ya-pei Kuo, Richard Madsen, Rebecca Nedostup, David Palmer, Benjamin Penny, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang