Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions. / Volume III, : Key Concepts in Practice / / ed. by Paul R. Katz, Stefania Travagnin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Broy, Nikolas,; Huang, Weishan,; Kao, Ya-ning,; Katz, Paul R.,; Pan, Junliang,; Poon, Shuk-wah,; Tarocco, Francesca,; Travagnin, Stefania,; Tsai, Yen-zen,; Valussi, Elena,
• HerausgeberIn: Katz, Paul R.,; Travagnin, Stefania,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 79
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 261 p.)

In recent years, the study of modern Chinese religions has developed into a highly innovative yet challenging field. One of the main reasons for this involves an ongoing (and largely unresolved) debate regarding what methods and theories are appropriate for analyzing the wide range of beliefs and pr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Note on Chinese Names, Terms and Transliteration
• Introduction
• On the Judicial Continuum and the Study of Chinese Legal Culture
• Moral Integration or Social Segregation? Vegetarianism and Vegetarian Religious Communities in Chinese Religious Life
• Food Fellowship and the Making of a Chinese Church: Cases from Contemporary China and Taiwan
• Buddhist Activism and Animal Protection in Republican China
• Charismatic Communications: The Intimate Publics of Chinese Buddhism
• Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis in Chinese Religions – With Two Case Studies from the Republican Period
• Ritual Practices and Networks of Zhuang Shamans
• Actors, Spaces, and Norms in Chinese Transnational Religious Networks: A Case Study of Wenzhou Migrants in France
• Globalization as a Tactic – Legal Campaigns of the Falun Gong Diaspora
• Index