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Author International Conference on Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan (2005 : University of California, Santa Barbara)

Title Chinese religiosities : afflictions of modernity and state formation / edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 464 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Global, area, and international archive
Global, area, and international archive.
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
Notes "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-435) and index
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Subject Religion and state -- China -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- History.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Civilization
Religion
Religion and state
Totalitarismus
Religionsfreiheit
Religion
Staat
SUBJECT China -- Religion -- 20th century
China -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023997
Subject China
China
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui, editor, author.
LC no. 2021697069
ISBN 9780520916203
0520916204