Religion in Chinese Societies – serie
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17 produkter
Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China
Methodology, Theories, and Findings
Inbunden, 2011
2570 kr
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The revival of religious belief and practice in China over the past thirty years, after decades of severe repression, has attracted much attention by scholars. Social scientific studies of religion by mainland Chinese scholars has also increased in recent years, using theories and methods developed …
China’s Creation and Origin Myths
Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions
Av Mineke Schipper, Shuxian Ye m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2596 kr
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How did the world begin? How were the first people created and which specific roles were they supposed to play in the cosmos? Like other mythologies worldwide, China’s creation and origin myths explain how man created order out of chaos and imposed culture on nature. Cross-cultural approaches to …
Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond
Av Fenggang Yang, Joseph Tamney
Inbunden, 2011
2987 kr
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Confucianism is reviving in China and spreading in America. The past and present interactions between the revived Confucianism and Daoism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity will likely shape the cultural and political developments in Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, …
Chinese Christianity
An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives
Inbunden, 2012
2439 kr
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This volume attempts to review the historical development of Chinese Christianity from a “global-local” or “glocalization” perspective. It includes chapters on the Boxer Movement, Chinese indigenous movements, and Christian higher education and also contains seven biographical chapters. The author …
Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers
Ritual Change and Social Transformation in a Southeastern Chinese Community, 1368-1949
Av Yonghua Liu
Inbunden, 2013
2726 kr
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In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers, Yonghua Liu presents a detailed study of how a southeastern Chinese community experienced and responded to the process whereby Confucian rituals - previously thought unfit for practice by commoners - were adopted in the Chinese countryside and became an …
Lightning from the East
Heterodoxy and Christianity in Contemporary China
Av Emily Dunn
Inbunden, 2015
2400 kr
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The Church of Almighty God, also known as Eastern Lightning, teaches that Jesus Christ has returned to earth as a Chinese woman to judge humankind. The Chinese government has banned it and similar groups, and targeted them in its campaign against “cults” such as Falun Gong.Based on the Church’s own …
Borrowed Place
Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan
Inbunden, 2015
2968 kr
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In Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist …
Contesting the Yellow Dragon
Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, 1379-2009
Av Xiaofei Kang, Donald S. Sutton
Inbunden, 2016
3365 kr
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Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardThis book is the first long-term study of the Sino-Tibetan borderland. It traces relationships and mutual influence among Tibetans, Chinese, Hui Muslims, Qiang and others over some 600 years, focusing on the old Chinese garrison city of …
Patriotic Cooperation
The Border Services of the Church of Christ in China and Chinese Church-State Relations, 1920s to 1950s
Av Diana Junio
Inbunden, 2017
2804 kr
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In Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a cooperative venture between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China, known as the Border Service Department, that carried out substantial social programs from 1939 to 1955 in China’s Southwestern border areas.Numerous …
Varieties of Confucian Experience
Documenting a Grassroots Revival of Tradition
Inbunden, 2018
3039 kr
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Although the development of a “popular” brand of Confucianism in China is today a massive phenomenon, research on the topic remains scarce. Based on fieldwork carried out by a team of scholars in different parts of the country, the ambition of The Varieties of Confucian Experience is to contribute …
Masters of Psalmody (bimo)
Scriptural Shamanism in Southwestern China
Inbunden, 2019
2713 kr
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In Masters of Psalmody (bimo) Aurélie Névot analyses the religious, political and theoretical issues of a scriptural shamanism observed in southwestern China among the Yi-Sani. Her focus is on blood sacrifices and chants based on a secret and labile writing handled only by ritualists called …
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions
Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts
Av Philip Clart, David Ownby m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3248 kr
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Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of …
Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China
Av Shun-hing Chan, Jonathan W. Johnson
Inbunden, 2021
2544 kr
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Co-edited by Shun-hing Chan and Jonathan Johnson, Citizens of Two Kingdoms examines the complex relationships of civil society, Christian organizations, and individual Christians in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. Different authors investigate to what extent Christian organizations or …
Sinicization of Chinese Religions: From Above and Below
Inbunden, 2021
2140 kr
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Since its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious …
From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs
Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese
Inbunden, 2023
3521 kr
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What does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the …
Struggling for Legitimacy
Spirit-Writing and Redemptive Societies in Republican China
Inbunden, 2026
2454 kr
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The Republican period was a time of radical change in which existing knowledge was questioned in light of newly introduced ideas. It seems puzzling that it was exactly during this period that the Chinese practice of spirit-writing, which had a history of more than a thousand years, experienced a …
Mandarins and Heretics
The Construction of “Heresy” in Chinese State Discourse
Av Junqing Wu
Inbunden, 2016
1801 kr
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In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as belonging to the same …
