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Superstitious regimes : religion and the politics of Chinese modernity

By Rebecca , Nedostup

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674035997, 1684174953
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14822251 bytes)
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs 322.
Pages
459\486
Topic
History
Time added
2019-09-14 12:25:14
Zhong guo guo min dang;Religion and politics -- Ch

Description

This title explores the recategorisation of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities in China. It also looks at how politicians conceived their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty. Introduction: religion, modernity, nationalism -- Part I: Of legislation and ling -- Inventing religion -- Temples and the redefinition of public life -- Part II: Material motives -- Jiangsu temples as target and tactic -- Idealized communities and the religious remainder -- Part III: Transactional modernity -- Embodying superstition -- Affective regimes -- Conclusion: superstition's legacy.

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