Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation (Routledge Contemporary China Series) - Image 1

£55.52

Routledge Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

Name: Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 52.66 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 83 days • 83 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 83 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £55 (82 days, 98.8%)

Price range: £53 - £55

Price levels: 2 different prices over 83 days

Description

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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 041583810X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 March 2013
Listed Since: 06 December 2012

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted: 74 (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics)

The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture

Religious Diversity and Children's Literature (International Social Studies Forum: The Series): Strategies and Resources

The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things: A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being (World Philosophies)

Religion and Contemporary Issues: Politics, Ecology, and Women's Rights

Shamanic and Mythic Cultures of Ethnic Peoples in Northern China II: Shamanic Divination, Myths, and Idols: 2 (China Perspectives)

Living Folk Religions

Religions of the United States in Practice, Volume 1.: 4 (Princeton Readings in Religions)

Asian Spiritualities and Social Transformation

Shamanic and Mythic Cultures of Ethnic Peoples in Northern China I: Shamanic Deities and Rituals: 1 (China Perspectives)

Encyclopedia of World Religions and Belief Systems: A Panoramic Compendium of Worldwide Religious Diversity: Faiths, Mythologies, Indigenous Wisdom, Esoteric Doctrines, Sects & Hidden Spiritual Orders

The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE

Interrelatedness in Chinese Religious Traditions: An Intercultural Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies)

Modernization In Asia: The Environment/resources, Social Mobilization, And Traditional Landscapes Across Time And Space In Asia

The Civil Sphere in East Asia

Religions of Asia in Practice: An Anthology (Princeton Readings In Religions): 2

Marrying & Burying: Rites Of Passage In A Man's Life

The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions

Promising Rituals: Gender and Performativity in Eastern India

Covid Pandemic and the World’s Religions, The: Challenges and Responses

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century: 13 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13)

Introducing Daoism (World Religions)

Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches: 31 (Research in Economic Anthropology, 31)

Gods and Rollercoasters: Religion in Theme Parks Worldwide