Superstitious regimes
Subtitle: religion and the politics of Chinese modernity
By: Rebecca Nedostup
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 322
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780674035997
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: religion, modernity, nationalism; title: Part I: Of legislation and ling; title: Inventing "religion"; title: Temples and the redefinition of public life; title: Part II: Material motives; title: Jiangsu temples as target and tactic; title: Idealized communities and the religious remainder; title: Part III: Transactional modernity; title: Embodying superstition; title: Affective regimes; title: Conclusion: superstition's legacy.