Making Religion, Making the State
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Making Religion, Making the State

The Politics of Religion in Modern China

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Making Religion, Making the State

The Politics of Religion in Modern China

About this book

Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of "religion" is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to those interested in politics, religion, and modernity in China.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Making Religion, Making the State in Modern China: An Introductory Essay / Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank
  4. 2. The Politics of Religion: Late-Imperial Origins of the Regulatory State / Timothy Brook
  5. 3. Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China / Yoshiko Ashiwa
  6. 4. The Catholic Pilgrimage to Sheshan / Richard Madsen and Lizhu Fan
  7. 5. Pathways to the Pulpit: Leadership Training in “Patriotic” and Unregistered Chinese Protestant Churches / Carsten T. Vala
  8. 6. Institutionalizing Modern “Religion” in China’s Buddhism: Political Phases of a Local Revival / David L. Wank
  9. 7. Islam in China: State Policing and Identity Politics / Dru C. Gladney
  10. 8. Further Partings of the Way: The Chinese State and Daoist Ritual Traditions in Contemporary China / Kenneth Dean
  11. 9. Expanding the Space of Popular Religion: Local Temple Activism and the Politics of Legitimation in Contemporary Rural China / Adam Yuet Chau
  12. 10. The Creation and Reemergence of Qigong in China / Utiraruto Otehode
  13. Character List
  14. Contributors
  15. Index