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Religion in contemporary China : revitalization and innovation
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Religion in contemporary China : revitalization and innovation

Author: Adam Yuet Chau
Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Series: Routledge contemporary China series, 59.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Religion in contemporary China.
Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011
(DLC) 2010017254
(OCoLC)610019358
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Yuet Chau
ISBN: 9780203840535 0203840534
OCLC Number: 705929878
Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 244 p.) : ill.
Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Revitalizing and innovating religious traditions in contemporary China; 2 Buddhism in the reform era: A secularized revival?; 3 Morality books and the regrowth of lay Buddhism in China; 4 From ritual skills to discursive knowledge: Changing styles of Daoist transmission in Shanghai; 5 Networks and the "cloudlike wandering" of Daoist monks in China today; 6 Temples as enterprises; 7 Revival in crisis: Amateur ritual associations in Hebei.
Series Title: Routledge contemporary China series, 59.
Responsibility: edited by Adam Yuet Chau.

Abstract:

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth survey of contemporary religious practices in China. It explains how recent economic reforms and concurrent relaxation of religious polices have created fertile ground for the revitalization of a wide range of religious practices and relates this to larger issues of social and cultural continuity and change.

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