Rebecca Nedostup is Associate Professor of History at Boston College.
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'.
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.
评分讀得太纍瞭。作者太炫耀英文詞匯量瞭,頻繁使用高端罕見詞匯。但其實遣詞造句和行文章法並不是太精湛,讀起來不暢快。至於學術價值,那就不用說瞭。十年磨一劍,檔案功夫十分瞭得。贊!
评分非常喜歡的一本書,理解當代中國人民思想的第一課。
评分我覺得也就是三星吧,材料是挺翔實,但是論述實在是混亂啊。
评分民國江蘇
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