Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority

The Bai People of Southwest China
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-415-52850-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 249 mm x 189 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of "alterity", which suggests a world beyond here and now. The book focuses on the particular institutions and ritual technologies that seek for access to the invisible, transcendental other—both spatial and temporal. It covers a variety of topics, including pre-modern kingship, modern utopia, religious alterity, ethnic identity, religious associations, the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and temple restorations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yongjia, Liang (National University of Singapore)

Yongjia, Liang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Chapter 1 Situating the Field, Chapter 2 Removing Religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s, Chapter 3 Introducing Ethnicity: The Promise of the Utopian Alterity, Chapter 4 Ethnicity Perpetuated: Nanzhao History between China and Thailand, Chapter 5 Religious Revival in Dali and Xizhou, Chapter 6 Culturalization of religion and ethnicity, Chapter 7 Temple lost, Temple Regained: The Sacred Public Space, Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Liang Yongjia is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.