Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850 - 2015 (2 vols.)

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BRILL, Oct 20, 2015 - Religion - 1128 pages
The last of four two-volume sets on the key periods of paradigm shift in Chinese religious and cultural history, this book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media, and gender, and in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) as well as in Marxist discourse. The nation and science are the values invoked most frequently, with the market and democracy a distant second. As in previous periods of fundamental change in Chinese history, rationalization and secularization have played central roles, but interiorization nearly disappears as a driving force. Also in continuity with the past, the state insists on an exclusive right to define and adjudicate orthodoxy.
Contributors include: Daniel H. Bays, Sébastien Billioud, Adam Yuet Chau, Na Chen, Philip Clart, Walter B. Davis, Arif Dirlik, Thomas David DuBois, Lizhu Fan, David Faure, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, Ji Zhe, Xiaofei Kang, Eric I. Karchmer, André Laliberté, Angela Ki Che Leung, Xun Liu, Richard Madsen, David Ownby, Ellen Oxfeld, Volker Scheid, Grace Yen Shen, Michael Szonyi, Wang Chien-ch’uan, Xue Yu
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Part 1 Foundational Transformations
61
Part 2 State PolicyState Ideology
259
Part 3 Histories of Religions
367
Volume 2
578
The Quest for Modernity in Canton ca 18701937
579
Religions and Philanthropy in Chinese Societies Since 1978
613
Section 3 Spirit Writing Redemptive Societies
649
Buddhism Confucianism Daoism
729
Section 5 Christianity
839
Section 6 Contemporary Trends
921
Bibliography
977
Index
1077

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