What about China?: religious vitality in the most secular and rapidly modernizing society
Through a biographical and historical account of religious change in China, this article first offers a personal observation of life in a society without religion. In the last three decades or so, however, unbeknown to most sociologists in China and the West, a quiet spiritual revolution has swept t...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2014]
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 4, Pages: 564-578 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Secularism
/ Religiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Through a biographical and historical account of religious change in China, this article first offers a personal observation of life in a society without religion. In the last three decades or so, however, unbeknown to most sociologists in China and the West, a quiet spiritual revolution has swept the vast land. Contemporary China is indeed a fertile field for sociologists to examine the social importance of religion in the modern world. His scholarly research on religion has been driven both by personal curiosity and a sense of social responsibility. The author explains what questions have propelled his empirical research and theoretical development. Constructively engaged with both classic and contemporary sociologists, the author calls for going beyond national boundaries and transcend various forms of parochialism in their social scientific endeavor. |
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| ISSN: | 1069-4404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru062 |