Religion in Contemporary China

Adam Yuet Chau is University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.

出版者:Routledge

作者:Adam Yuet Chau ed.

页数:264

出版时间:2011-2-18

价格:USD 165.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780415459341

图书标签:宗教人类学海外中国研究社会史民间信仰中国：宗教史社会学中国

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges to China’s religious traditions but, this book argues, these conditions also presented new opportunities for re-generation and innovation.

It shows that economic reforms and the concurrent relaxation of religious policies have provided fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide array of religious practices, including divination, ancestor worship, temple festivals, spirit mediumism, churchgoing, funeral rites, exorcism, pilgrimages, sectarianism, sutra chanting, and the printing and distribution of morality books. Equally new forms of religious practices have emerged such as lay Buddhist preachers, "Maoist shamans", and a range of qigong sects/schools.

Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts who have all conducted in-depth fieldwork research in China, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It examines the different processes and mechanisms of religious revivals and innovations, and, more broadly, relates the Chinese example of religious revitalization to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.

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变了味的传统

浓浓的写给外国人看的新闻报道的味道。过于突出改开以后的政府行为作为论述背景，使得很多东西就是现象解释现象。

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浓浓的写给外国人看的新闻报道的味道。过于突出改开以后的政府行为作为论述背景，使得很多东西就是现象解释现象。