Making religion, making the state : the politics of religion in modern China

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Making religion, making the state : the politics of religion in modern China

edited by Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank

Stanford University Press, c2009

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Making religion, making the state in modern China : an introductory essay / Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank
  • The politics of religion : late-imperial origins of the regulatory state / Timothy Brook
  • Positioning religion in modernity : state and Buddhism in China / Yoshiko Ashiwa
  • The Catholic pilgrimage to Sheshan / Richard Madsen and Lizhu Fan
  • Pathways to the pulpit : leadership training in "patriotic" and unregistered Chinese Protestant churches / Carsten T. Vala
  • Institutionalizing modern "religion" in China's Buddhism : political phases of a local revival / David L. Wank
  • Islam in China : state policing and identity politics / Dru C. Gladney
  • Further partings of the way : the Chinese state and Daoist ritual traditions in contemporary China / Kenneth Dean
  • Expanding the space of popular religion : local temple activism and the politics of legitimation in contemporary rural China / Adam Yuet Chau
  • The creation and reemergence of Qigong in China / Utiraruto Otehode

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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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