Making saints in modern China
Each chapter of this work offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or host...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2016
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In: | Year: 2016 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Buddhism
/ Saint
/ Biography
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IxTheo Classification: | BL Buddhism KBM Asia KCD Hagiography; saints |
Further subjects: | B
Buddhist saints
Biography
B Buddhism China History, 20th century |
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Summary: | Each chapter of this work offers a biography of a religious leader and a detailed discussion of his or her rise to sainthood over the course of China's twentieth century. Throughout, emphasis is on the creative and largely successful strategies deployed in the face of state indifference or hostility. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 0190494581 |
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190494568.001.0001 |