Secular-Sacred Hybridity of Ren’ai: Charitable Organisations, Religious Networks and Ethical Identities in Contemporary China = 仁爱慈善基金会的圣-俗杂糅：论当代中国的慈善组织、宗教网络和伦理观念
This article explores the growth of religious philanthropy in contemporary China over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. By describing the strategies of one of China’s most important Buddhist-inspired charities at macro, meso, and micro scales, I argue that the Ren’ai Charity Foundat...
| Nebentitel: | 仁爱慈善基金会的圣-俗杂糅：论当代中国的慈善组织、宗教网络和伦理观念 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Review of Religion and Chinese Society
Jahr: 2024, Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 58-94 |
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佛教慈善
B Ethics B 世俗轮 B state-religion relations B Buddhist charity B 宗教-国家关系 B 伦理 B Secularism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article explores the growth of religious philanthropy in contemporary China over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. By describing the strategies of one of China’s most important Buddhist-inspired charities at macro, meso, and micro scales, I argue that the Ren’ai Charity Foundation’s success is due to its strategic blurring of the boundaries between the sacred and the secular. This strategy is manifest in its negotiations with the secular state, internal organizational structures, and ethical discourse. Sacred-secular hybridity, the central concept advanced in this article, is an important feature of China’s religious revival, and an important example of innovative strategies employed by non-government organizations in the policy gray areas of contemporary China. The sacred-secular hybridity of Ren’ai not only reveals the latest developments within Chinese religious philanthropy, but also serves as a theoretical framework to better understand the contested category of religion in contemporary China. 本文探讨了在21世纪前二十年中，宗教慈善事业在当代中国的发展。通过描述中国最重要的佛教慈善机构之一（仁爱慈善基金会）在宏观、中观和微观尺度上的策略，本文提出了仁爱基金会的成功在于它策略性地模糊了神圣与世俗之间的边界。这一策略从它与世俗国家、内部组织架构以及伦理话语的谈判中体现出来。本文提出的中心概念“神圣与世俗的杂糅性”是中国宗教复兴中的一个重要特征，也是当代中国非政府组织在政策灰色地带运用创新策略的一个重要范例。仁爱的神圣与世俗的杂糅性不仅揭示出中国慈善宗教事业的最新发展，也可以作为一种理论框架，以更好地理解当代中国宗教具有争议性的概念范畴。 |
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| ISSN: | 2214-3955 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22143955-12340026 |
