Making Saints in Modern China

Zusatztext This book showcases the recent considerable advancements in the field of modern Chinese religious studies, and it will be of great interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike. For the specialist, there are a number of new avenues of research, and fresh archival and ethnographic materials spanning a fairly wide geographical field. For the nonspecialist, it portrays the surprisingly varied, lively, interconnected, and at the same time deeply rooted modern religious geography of China, providing a useful introduction to the field. Informationen zum Autor David Ownby is Professor of History at the University of Montreal.Vincent Goossaert is Professor of Religious Studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE) in Paris.Ji Zhe is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris. Klappentext Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility. Zusammenfassung Each chapter of this book offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility.

Product details

• Authors: David Ownby, David Goossaert Ownby
• Assisted by: Vincent Goossaert (Editor), Goossaert Vincent (Editor), David Ownby (Editor), Ownby David (Editor), Ji Zhe (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2017
• EAN: 9780190494568
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049456-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, RELIGION / Leadership, Religion - World Religions, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, Religious & spiritual leaders, Religion: general, Religious and spiritual figures