Handbook on religion in China. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics, UK).
• Editors: Feuchtwang, Stephan
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Introduction to the handbook on religion in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Part I: State policies, civic society and cultural revival -- 1. Religious policy in China / Richard Madsen -- 2. Philanthropy and the religious life of goodness in China / Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang and Keping Wu -- 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 -- 4. The contemporary confucian revival in perspective / Sébastien Billioud -- 5. Heritage and religion in China / Yujie Zhu -- Part II: Revitalized and modernizing traditions -- 6. Life-cycle rituals in rural and urban China: birth, marriage and death / Ellen Oxfeld -- 7. Temples and festivals in rural and urban China / Adam Yuet Chau -- 8. Fate, destiny and divination / William Matthews -- 9. Redemptive societies / Matthias Schumann -- Part III: Daoism, Buddhism, Tibet, the Naxi -- 10. Household ritual specialists / Stephen Jones -- 11. Daoism and Daoist organisations / Stephan Feuchtwang -- 12. Chinese Buddhism in the post-Mao era: preserving and reinventing the received tradition / Daniela Campo -- 13. Tibetan religions on the Qing-Zang Plateau / Chen Bo -- 14. Migration myth and ancestral roads in southwest China / Peter Guangpei Ran -- Part IV: Islam and Christianity -- 15. Hui Muslims and Han converts: Islam and the paradox of recognition / Guangtian Ha -- 16. Uyghur religion / Ildikó Bellér-Hann -- 17. Protestant Christianities in contemporary China / R.G. Tiedemann -- 18. Rural to urban Protestant house churches in China / Jie Kang -- 19. Chinese Catholicism / Richard Madsen -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (488 pages)
• Subjects: 200.951; Religion; Religion; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786437969; 1786437961
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on print record.; Note: Print version record.
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