Religion in Contemporary China : Revitalization and Innovation

作者：AdamYuetChaued.

出版社：Routledge

副标题：RevitalizationandInnovation

出版年：2011-2-18

页数：264

定价：USD165.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780415459341

内容简介
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Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges to China’s religious traditions but, this book argues, these conditions also presented new opportunities for re-generation and innovation.

It shows that economic reforms and the concurrent relaxation of religious policies have provided fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide array of religious practices, including divination, ancestor worship, temple festivals, spirit mediumism, churchgoing, funeral rites, exorcism, pilgrimages, sectarianism, sutra chanting, and the printing and distribution of morality books. Equally new forms of religious practices have emerged such as lay Buddhist preachers, "Maoist shamans", and a range of qigong sects/schools.

Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts who have all conducted in-depth fieldwork research in China, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It examines the different processes and mechanisms of religious revivals and innovations, and, more broadly, relates the Chinese example of religious revitalization to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.

作者简介
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Adam Yuet Chau is University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China.

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呵呵呵 adam

零零碎碎读了一点，发现很多做中国研究的外国学者，经不起推敲，一个intro读下来是不错，看看书里的内容，很多都不是很满意，虽然adam是偶像，我还是决定给个三星吧，尤其是书里把少数性夸大化，那些没有被文革摧毁的宗教仪式和法师，毕竟是少数，却被当做反驳主流观点的一个卖点，搞得全中国地下宗教都猖狂得很，生命力旺盛，改革开放春风一吹，就全都复活了，太扯淡了吧。

interesting的对于传统的解读，即传统不是一种民俗实践的总体，而是社会主体回应环境变化的方式

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