The Concept of Religion in Modern China: A Grassroots Perspective
Modern Chinese history offers scholars plenty of reasons to abandon the state-imposed neologism of ‘religion’. For its popularization in the late 19th century marked the start of multiple cycles of violence against ‘superstition’, its ideological twin. To the contrary, this article explores how ‘rel...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Exchange
Year: 2018, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-70 |
IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
Further subjects: | B
Religion
superstition
China
religious freedom
ritual
household
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