Chinese Religiosities - Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation

Zusatztext "Benefits from a [broad] time frame and conceptual framework." Informationen zum Autor Mayfair Mei-hui Yang is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California! Santa Barbara! and Professor and Director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney! Australia. Klappentext "Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion! in fact it is witnessing a religious revival. The thoughtful essays in this book show both the historical conflicts between state authorities and religious movements and the contemporary encounters that are shaping China's future. I am aware of no other book that covers so much ground and can be used so well as an introduction to this important field." —Peter van der Veer! University of Utrecht Zusammenfassung The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. This book explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice.

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• Authors: M Yang, Mayfair Mei Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui (EDT) Yang
• Assisted by: Mayfair Mei Yang (Editor), Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang (Editor), Yang Mayfair Mei-hui (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.2008
• EAN: 9780520098640
• ISBN: 978-0-520-09864-0
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Global, Area, and International Archive; Global, Area, and International Archive; Global, Area, and Internationa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Anthropology, comparative religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Religion & beliefs