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Religion in contemporary China : revitalization and innovation /

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to lar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chau, Adam Yuet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Colección:Routledge contemporary China series ; 59.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : Revitalizing and innovating religious traditions in contemporary China / Adam Yuet Chau
  • 2. Buddhism in the reform era : a secularized revival? / Ji Zhe
  • 3. Morality books and the regrowth of lay Buddhism in China / Gareth Fisher
  • 4. From ritual skills to discursive knowledge : changing styles of Daoist transmission in Shanghai / Yang Der-Ruey
  • 5. Networks and the "cloudlike wandering" of Daoist monks in China today / Adeline Herrou
  • 6. Temples as enterprises / Selena Ching Chan, Graeme Lang
  • 7. Revival in crisis : amateur ritual associations in Hebei / Stephen Jones
  • 8. Chinese religious innovation in the Qigong movement : the case of Zhonggong / David A. Palmer
  • 9. Global modernity, local community, and spiritual power in the Shanxi Catholic Church / Henrietta Harrison.