Chinese religiosities : afflictions of modernity and state formation / / edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.

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Superior document:Global, area, and international archive
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Global, area, and international archive.
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Physical Description:vii, 464 p. :; ill., map.
Notes:"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented at the International Conference on Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan, held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 28-20, 2005"--P. vii.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Religious approaches to citizenship : the traffic between religious orders and the secular national order
  • 1. Religion and citizenship in China and the diaspora / Prasenjit Duara
  • 2. Redeploying Confucius : the imperial state dreams of the nation, 1902-1911 / Ya-pei Kuo
  • Pt. II. State discourse and the transformation of religious communities
  • 3. Ritual competition and the modernizing nation-state / Rebecca Nedostup
  • 4. Heretical doctrines, reactionary secret societies, evil cults : labeling heterodoxy in twentieth-century China / David A. Palmer
  • 5. Animal spirits, karmic retribution, Falungong, and the state / Benjamin Penny
  • 6. Christianity and "adaptation to socialism" / Ryan Dunch
  • 7. Islam and modernity in China : secularization or separatism? / Dru C. Gladney
  • Pt. III. The reinvention and control of religious institutions
  • 8. Republican church engineering : the national religious associations in 1912 China / Vincent Goossaert
  • 9. Secularization as religious restructuring : statist institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and its paradoxes / Ji Zhe
  • 10. State control of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the People's Republic of China / Jose Ignacio Cabezon
  • Pt. IV. Taiwan and transnational Chinese religiosity
  • 11. Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen
  • 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.