Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation

by Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui

• ISBN13: 9780520098640
• ISBN10: 0520098641
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies.

Author Biography

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor and Director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Religious Approaches to Citizenship: The Traffic Between Religious Orders and the Secular National Order
Religion and Citizenship in China and the Diaspora	p. 43
Redeploying Confucius: The Imperial State Dreams of the Nation, 1902-1911	p. 65
State Discourse and the Transformation of Religious Communities
Ritual Competition and the Modernizing Nation-State	p. 87
Heretical Doctrines, Reactionary Secret Societies, Evil Cults: Labeling Heterodoxy in Twentieth-Century China	p. 113
Animal Spirits, Karmic Retribution, Falungong, and the State	p. 135
Christianity and "Adaptation to Socialism"	p. 155
Islam and Modernity in China: Secularization or Separatism?	p. 179
The Reinvention and Control of Religious Institutions
Republican Church Engineering: The National Religious Associations in 1912 China	p. 209
Secularization as Religious Restructuring: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes	p. 233
State Control of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in the People's Republic of China	p. 261
Taiwan and Transnational Chinese Religiosity
Religious Renaissance and Taiwan's Modern Middle Classes	p. 295
Goddess across the Taiwan Strait: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State, and Satellite Television Footprints	p. 323
Notes	p. 349
Bibliography	p. 377
Glossary and Chinese Proper Names	p. 437
Contributors	p. 451
Index	p. 455
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