Key Concepts in Practice

Paul R. Katz, Stefania Travagnin

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783110546910
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Historia de China

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 practices we encounter.

This series of three volumes is based on the conviction that, in this critical period of research on modern Chinese religions, it is time for scholars to review the development of our field, reconsider its present state of theories and analytical models, and open a new chapter in the understanding of methodologies we employ. Our research is grounded on the need to re-evaluate concepts and practices that inform both the religious sphere and contemporary scholarship, including endogenous Chinese concepts and exogenous ideas from the West and Japan that have been foundational in shaping our knowledge of the Chinese religious landscape.

In this third volume of our series, we examine a variety of key concepts through their praxis in modern Chinese lived religions.

Index

• Aboriginal peoples 12, 25–27, 32–33, 35–36, 93
• animal protection ix, 4, 91–101, 103–109, 111
• annual rites; see rites/rituals
• beef cattle (cainiu 菜牛) 104, 106, 108
• Berlant, Laurent 115, 128
• Bourgon, Jérôme 3, 11, 17–18, 20, 23, 27, 30–32
• Buddhism ix, ix, xiii–xiv, 3–7, 14, 18, 23, 26, 37–38, 40–47, 50–52, 54, 57–58, 61–63, 68, 91–104, 106–111, 113–123, 118, 125–135, 137, 140–143, 147–148, 151–152, 156–177, 180, 186, 190, 197, 210, 214–215, 219–225, 227, 229, 231, 233, 235, 246, 252
• – Buddhist activism ix, 91–92, 98–99, 107–108, 111, 173
• – Buddhist ethics 61–63
• – cyber-Buddhism 119–120, 131
• bureaucratic metaphor 22
• charisma ix, 7, 66, 80, 83, 89–90, 113, 115–117, 121, 126–127, 129–130, 132, 147, 174, 182, 205, 214, 225, 227
• Chen Yingning 陳櫻寧 134, 142, 144–145, 168–170, 172, 175–176
• China Society for the Protection of Animals (Zhongguo baohu dongwuhui 中國保護動物會) 4,91–92, 95–103, 106–107; see also CSPA
• Chinese Christianity; see Christianity
• Chinese legal culture; see law
• Christianity
• – Chinese Christianity 67–68, 80, 85–86
• – Christian fellowship; see fellowship
• citizenship 237, 242, 252, 254
• City God (Chenghuangshen 城隍神) 15, 20–21, 27, 29, 32
• – City God temple 20–21, 32
• clean mouth (qingkou清口) 55
• colonial history 24–26, 29, 31–35, 47, 50, 68, 132
• commensality 4, 70, 84
• common law; see law
• communal eating 66, 74, 80
• continuum ix, 2–3, 11–12, 17, 19–23, 28–29, 117, 135, 174, 182, 204, 226, 235
• costly signals 179, 182, 207
• courts 7, 11, 16–17, 19–20, 24, 26–28, 31, 34, 36, 198, 235, 237, 240–245, 247–252
• crimes 15–16, 18, 21–22, 30, 32, 34, 36, 241, 245, 247–249
• CSPA; see China Society for the Protection of Animals (Zhongguo baohu dongwuhui 中國保護動物會)
• culinary systems 69, 71
• cult xiii, 7, 28–29, 35, 217, 219, 221, 228, 234, 238–239, 245
• customary law (xiguan fa 習慣法), see law
• cyber-Buddhism; see Buddhism
• Daoism xiv–xv, 3, 6, 14, 30–32, 34, 37–38, 40, 45, 57, 61, 123, 134, 140–148, 152, 155–156, 165, 169–171, 175, 180–181, 184, 186–191, 193–198, 200–203, 206, 219, 233
• – Daoist priests (Ch. daogong 道公, Zh. bou dao) 180–181, 184, 186–187, 190, 194–198, 200–203
• dead ritual masters (Ch. ba巴; Zh. ba) 179, 181, 183, 185–188, 190–194, 197–198, 201–203; see also deceased ritual masters
• deceased ritual masters; see dead ritual masters (Ch. ba 巴; Zh. ba)
• Delivering Rice Wine to Deceased Ritual Masters (Ch. jiao zushi jiu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• 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