Religion in contemporary China : revitalization and innovation /
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to lar...
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| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2011
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary China series ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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 regrowth 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 / Selena Ching Chan, 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 A. Palmer
- 9. Global modernity, local community, and spiritual power in the Shanxi Catholic Church / Henrietta Harrison.
