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Title Globalization and the making of religious modernity in China : transnational religions, local agents, and the study of religion, 1800-present / edited by Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein and Christian Meyer
Published Lieden : Brill, [2014]
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Series Religion in Chinese societies, 1877-6264 ; volume 7
Religion in Chinese societies ; v. 7.
Contents 880-01 Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Globalization and the Religious Field in China, 1800-present; Part One Transformation of the Religious Field in China: The Changing Role of the State; Chapter 1 Managing Chinese Religious Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century City God Temples; Chapter 2 Political Religion in Twentieth-Century China and Its Global Dimension; Part Two Global Currents and Their Local Refractions; Chapter 3 The Christian Century of South China: Church, State, and Community in Chaozhou (1860-1990)
880-01/$1 Chapter 4 Sectarian Religions and Globalization in Nineteenth-Century China: The Wanbao baojuan 萬寳寶卷 (1858) and Other ExamplesChapter 5 Beyond Globalization and Secularization: Changing Religion and Philanthropy in Lukang, Taiwan; Chapter 6 'Mrs. Ma' and 'Ms. Xu': On the Attractiveness of Denoting Oneself a 'Buddhist' in the Increasingly Transnational Milieu of Urban Taiwan; Chapter 7 Globalization vs. Localization: Remaking the Cult of Confucius in Contemporary Quzhou; Chapter 8 Tibetan Buddhist Books in a Digital Age; Part Three Chinese-Western Encounters: Global Visions and Cultural Flows
Chapter 9 A Modern Ruist Religious Vision of a Global Unity: Kang Youwei's Utopian Vision and Its Humanistic Religious Refraction in European SinologyChapter 10 The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Modern China and the Globalization of Culture; Part Four Knowledge Transfer, Academic Networks, Identity, and the Study of Religions; Chapter 11 How the 'Science of Religion' (zongjiaoxue) as a Discipline Globalized 'Religion' in Late Qing and Republican China, 1890-1949-Global Concepts, Knowledge Transfer, and Local Discourses
Chapter 12 Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identities in the Encounter with the 'Other': Global and Local Perspectives in the Historiography of Late Qing/Early Republican Christian MissionsChapter 13 Sino-Christian Theology: Treading a Fine Line between Self-Determination and Globalization; Index
Summary Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China investigates the transformation of China's religious landscape under the impact of global influences through case studies covering the period from 1800 to the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Globalization -- Religious aspects.
Globalization.
globalism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Globalization
Globalization -- Religious aspects
Religion
SUBJECT China -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024177
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Jansen, Thomas, 1965- editor.
Klein, Thomas, editor
Meyer, Christian, 1971- editor.
ISBN 9789004271517
9004271511
9004271503
9789004271500
1306584779
9781306584777