Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority - The Bai People of Southwest China

Informationen zum Autor Liang Yongjia is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. Zusammenfassung This book, based on extensive original research among the Bai people considers how majority-minority ethnic relations have evolved over time. It discusses amongst many other issues how local religions emphasise ancestor cults which reinforce minorities’ sense of their separate ethnicity, and concludes by assessing how these important issues are likely to develop. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Chapter 1 Situating the Field, Chapter 2 Removing Religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s, Chapter 3 Introducing Ethnicity: The Promise of the Utopian Alterity, Chapter 4 Ethnicity Perpetuated: Nanzhao History between China and Thailand, Chapter 5 Religious Revival in Dali and Xizhou, Chapter 6 Culturalization of religion and ethnicity, Chapter 7 Temple lost, Temple Regained: The Sacred Public Space, Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Liang Yongjia, Yongjia Liang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2018
• EAN: 9780415528504
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52850-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Tribal religions, East Asian religions, Oriental Religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal