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Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
Yoshiko Ashiwa (Ed.)
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Description for Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
Paperback. This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China. Editor(s): Ashiwa, Yoshiko; Wank, David L. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRAM2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of religion is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and ... Read more
Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. It examines how the modern category of religion is enacted and implemented in specific locales and contexts by a variety of actors from the late nineteenth century until the present. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and more, this volume will appeal across the social sciences and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758420
SKU
V9780804758420
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About Yoshiko Ashiwa (Ed.)
Yoshiko Ashiwa is Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Reconciliation, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. David L. Wank is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo.
Reviews for Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
This well-documented and adequately referenced book should be compulsory reading material for students of Chinese religion and politics or intellectuals interested in the sociology/anthropology of religion or researchers in the field of comparative religion.
E. Van Laerhoven Making Religion, Making the State, seeks to explain the process of institutionalizing the modern concept of religion in the state ... Read more
E. Van Laerhoven Making Religion, Making the State, seeks to explain the process of institutionalizing the modern concept of religion in the state ... Read more