The religious question in modern China / Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer.
2011
200.951.0904 G659r 2011
Available at 3rd Floor
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS | |
Title
The religious question in modern China / Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer.
Author
ISBN
9780226304168 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226304167 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226304167 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 464 p. ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40019128340
Call Number
200.951.0904 G659r 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)643324735
(OCoLC)643324735
(OCoLC)643324735
Summary
Recent events--from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe--vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present. Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China's religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (405-440) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Pt. I. Religions and revolutions. The late Qing religious landscape
Ideology, religion, and the construction of a modern state, 1898-1937
Model religions for a modern China : Christianity, Buddhism, and religious citizenship
Cultural revitalization : redemptive societies and secularized traditions
Rural resistance and adaptation, 1898-1949
The CCP and religion, 1921-66
Spiritual civilization and political Utopianism
Pt. II. Multiple religious modernities : into the twenty-first century. Alternative trajectories for religion in the Chinese world
Filial piety, the family, and death
Revivals of communal religion in the later twentieth century
The evolution of modern religiosities
Official discourses and institutions of religion
Global religions, ethnic identities, and geopolitics.
Ideology, religion, and the construction of a modern state, 1898-1937
Model religions for a modern China : Christianity, Buddhism, and religious citizenship
Cultural revitalization : redemptive societies and secularized traditions
Rural resistance and adaptation, 1898-1949
The CCP and religion, 1921-66
Spiritual civilization and political Utopianism
Pt. II. Multiple religious modernities : into the twenty-first century. Alternative trajectories for religion in the Chinese world
Filial piety, the family, and death
Revivals of communal religion in the later twentieth century
The evolution of modern religiosities
Official discourses and institutions of religion
Global religions, ethnic identities, and geopolitics.
Added Author
Record Appears in