Handbook on religion in China
By: edited by Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics, UK)
Contributors: Edward Elgar Publishing
Series: Handbooks of research on contemporary China series; Handbooks of research on contemporary China
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781786437969; 9781786437952
Subjects: Religion; Religion (discipline)
Description: "Informative and eye-opening, the Handbook on Religion in China provides a uniquely broad insight into the contemporary Chinese variations of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. In turn, China's own religions of Daoism, of filial piety and transmissions of rites have spread beyond China, a progression that is explored in detail across 19 chapters, written by leading experts in the field. Utilising a historical focus to emphasize developments and highlight the transformations of ritual practices, festivals, divination and traditions, this Handbook deals with the emergence of new attitudes to selfhood and the great diversity of civic and other rituals. Traditional ways of forming relationships and conducting life-cycle rituals are also considered. This comprehensive Handbook investigates the ways in which all of these changes are affected by governmental controls that have intriguing unintended consequences. Providing a solid introduction for both newcomers and informed readers, this Handbook will be a key resource for sociologists and anthropologists of ritual and religion as well as students of religious studies, contemporary Chinese studies and the sociology of religion. With extensive references to assist readers wishing to further deepen their understanding this Handbook will also be of interest to historians and individuals interested in contemporary China"--
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the handbook on religion in China / Stephan Feuchtwang; title: Part I: State policies, civic society and cultural revival; title: 1. Religious policy in China / Richard Madsen; title: 2. Philanthropy and the religious life of goodness in China / Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang and Keping Wu; title: 3. Remaking the self: Spirituality, civilization and the Chinese quest for the good life in the reform era / Anna Iskra, Fabian Winiger and David A. Palmer; title: 4. The contemporary confucian revival in perspective / Sébastien Billioud; title: 5. Heritage and religion in China / Yujie Zhu; title: Part II: Revitalized and modernizing traditions; title: 6. Life-cycle rituals in rural and urban China: birth, marriage and death / Ellen Oxfeld; title: 7. Temples and festivals in rural and urban China / Adam Yuet Chau; title: 8. Fate, destiny and divination / William Matthews; title: 9. Redemptive societies / Matthias Schumann; title: Part III: Daoism, Buddhism, Tibet, the Naxi; title: 10. Household ritual specialists / Stephen Jones; title: 11. Daoism and Daoist organisations / Stephan Feuchtwang; title: 12. Chinese Buddhism in the post-Mao era: preserving and reinventing the received tradition / Daniela Campo; title: 13. Tibetan religions on the Qing-Zang Plateau / Chen Bo; title: 14. Migration myth and ancestral roads in southwest China / Peter Guangpei Ran; title: Part IV: Islam and Christianity; title: 15. Hui Muslims and Han converts: Islam and the paradox of recognition / Guangtian Ha; title: 16. Uyghur religion / Ildikó Bellér-Hann; title: 17. Protestant Christianities in contemporary China / R.G. Tiedemann; title: 18. Rural to urban Protestant house churches in China / Jie Kang; title: 19. Chinese Catholicism / Richard Madsen; title: Index.