State, market, and religions in Chinese societies /

This collection of original, new studies about Mainland China and Taiwan focuses on religious changes, and especially the role of the state and market in affecting religious developments in these societies. Information was gathered by participant observation and interviews primarily, and the analysi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Yang, Fenggang, Tamney, Joseph B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005
Series:Religion and the social order ; v. 11.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Between secularist ideology and desecularizing reality / Fenggang Yang
  • The cross faces the loudspeakers / Jianbo Huang and Fenggang Yang
  • The Bailin Buddhist Temple / Thomas Borchert
  • The changing economy of temple Daoism in Shangai / Der-Ruey Yang
  • Temples and the religious economy / Graeme Lang, Selina Chan and Lars Ragvald
  • Helping people to fulfill vows / Paul Yufeng Lu
  • Morality books and the moral order / Chi-Shiang Ling
  • The fate of confucianism as a religion in socialist China / Anna Xiao Dong Sun.