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Title Text and context in the modern history of Chinese religions : redemptive societies and their sacred texts / edited by Philip Clart, David Ownby, Chien-Chuan Wang
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
Series Religion in Chinese Societies ; volume 16
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020
Religion in Chinese societies ; volume 16.
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020
Summary "Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of scholars. The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditions (how to "modernize" traditional discourse), textual authority (the role of texts in making a master a master), and the distribution of texts (via China's experience of "print capitalism"). Throughout, the goal is to explore in depth what some scholars have called the most vital aspect of Chinese religion during the Republican period"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
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Subject Cults -- China -- History -- 20th century
Spiritualism -- China -- History -- 20th century
Spirit writings -- China -- History -- 20th century
Religious literature, Chinese -- History and criticism
Religious literature -- Publishing -- China
Religious literature -- Distributon -- China
Spirit writings -- History -- 20th century
Religious literature -- Publishing.
Cults
Religion
Religious literature, Chinese
Religious literature -- Publishing
Spirit writings
Spiritualism
SUBJECT China -- Religion -- 20th century
Subject China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Clart, Philip, 1963- editor.
Ownby, David, 1958- editor.
Wang, Jianchuan, editor
LC no. 2019053103
ISBN 9004424164
9789004424166