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Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation book cover

1st Edition

Religion in Contemporary China Revitalization and Innovation

Edited By Adam Yuet Chau Copyright 2011
264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges to China’s religious traditions but, this book argues, these conditions also presented new... Read more

Acknowledgments  List of figures, maps, and tables  List of Contributors  1. Introduction: Revitalizing and Innovating Religious Traditions in Contemporary China - Adam Yuet Chau  2. Buddhism in the Reform Era: A Secularized Revival? - Ji Zhe  3. Morality Books and the Re-Growth of Lay Buddhism in China - Gareth Fisher  4. From Ritual Skills to Discursive Knowledge: Changing Styles of Daoist Transmission in Shanghai - Yang Der-ruey  5. Networks and the "Cloudlike Wandering" of Daoist Monks in China Today - Adeline Herrou  6. Temples as Enterprises - Selina Chan and Graeme Lang  7. Revival in Crisis: Amateur Ritual Associations in Hebei - Stephen Jones  8. Chinese Religious Innovation in the Qigong Movement: The Case of Zhonggong - David Palmer  9. Global Modernity, Local Community, and Spiritual Power in the Shanxi Catholic Church - Henrietta Harrison  Index

Biography

Adam Yuet Chau is University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.  He is the author of Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.

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