Superstitious Regimes

Rebecca Nedostup is Associate Professor of History at Boston College.

出版者:Harvard University Asia Center

作者:Rebecca Nedostup

页数:450

出版时间:2010-4-1

价格:USD 49.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674035997

丛书系列:The Harvard East Asian Monographs

图书标签:宗教海外中国研究现代性民国史历史学历史近代史近现代史

We live in a world shaped by secularism - the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually contested does not undercut their extraordinary influence. These divisions underpin this investigation of the role of religion in the construction of modernity and political power during the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937) of Nationalist rule in China. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty. The claims of secular nationalism and mobilizational politics prompted the Nationalists to conceive of the world of religious association as a dangerous realm of 'superstition' that would destroy the nation. This is the first 'superstitious regime' of the book's title. It also convinced them that national feeling and faith in the party-state would replace those ties - the second 'superstitious regime'.

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It is an extremely difficult project using religious studies vocabulary and methodology to talk to historians. Theoretically inspiring. One of the major achievements of this book is to introduce the concept of "religion" to modern Chinese history. Really worth reading for students of social, cultural, and intellectual history.

It is an extremely difficult project using religious studies vocabulary and methodology to talk to historians. Theoretically inspiring. One of the major achievements of this book is to introduce the concept of "religion" to modern Chinese history. Really worth reading for students of social, cultural, and intellectual history.

It is an extremely difficult project using religious studies vocabulary and methodology to talk to historians. Theoretically inspiring. One of the major achievements of this book is to introduce the concept of "religion" to modern Chinese history. Really worth reading for students of social, cultural, and intellectual history.

It is an extremely difficult project using religious studies vocabulary and methodology to talk to historians. Theoretically inspiring. One of the major achievements of this book is to introduce the concept of "religion" to modern Chinese history. Really worth reading for students of social, cultural, and intellectual history.