Chinese Religiosities

Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation

by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (Editor)

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Publication Date: Nov 2008

Edition: 1st Edition

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Rights: World

Pages: 472

ISBN: 9780520916203

Series:

Global, Area, and International Archive (Series Completed)

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About the Book

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. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions including Buddhism Daoism Islam Confucianism Protestantism Falungong popular religion and redemptive societies.

Contributors: José Cabezón Prasenjit Duara Ryan Dunch Dru C. Gladney Vincent Goossaert Ji Zhe Ya-pei Kuo Richard Madsen Rebecca Nedostup David Palmer Benjamin Penny Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

About the Author

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.

Reviews

“Benefits from a [broad] time frame and conceptual framework.”
— The China Beat

"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