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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Main Author: Colijn, Bram (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: 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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)