Making Religion, Making the State - The Politics of Religion in Modern China

Zusatztext "This well-documented and adequately referenced book should be compulsory reading material for students of Chinese religion and politics or intellectuals interested in the sociology/anthropology of religion or researchers in the field of comparative religion." Informationen zum Autor Yoshiko Ashiwa is Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Reconciliation, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. David L. Wank is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo. Klappentext This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China. Zusammenfassung This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China.

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• Authors: Yoshiko Wank Ashiwa
• Assisted by: Yoshiko Ashiwa (Editor), David L Wank (Editor), David L. Wank (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2009
• EAN: 9780804758413
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5841-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education