Religious revival among the Zhuang people in China: practising “superstition” and standardizing a Zhuang religion

This paper examines two cases of Zhuang religious revival involving multiple actors. It shows how consideration of “superstition” (迷信, mixin) places some religious practice outside the institutional framework when discussing the modern concept of religion in China. In this paper, I particularly focu...

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Main Author: Kao, Ya-ning (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing 2014
In: Journal of current Chinese affairs
Year: 2014, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 107-144
Further subjects:B Religious practice
B Superstition
B Shamanism
B State
B China
B Religion
B Religious organization
B Ethnic group
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