Volume I State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches

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Volume I State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches

Edited by: André Laliberté and Stefania Travagnin

Part of the multi-volume work

Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 77 | Religion and Society

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The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a variety of analytical approaches and theories about methodology, epistemology, and the ontology of the field. The three books display an interdisciplinary approach and offer debates that transcend national traditions. It engages with a variety of methodologies for the study of East Asian religions and promotes dialogues with Western and Chinese voices.

This volume covers successive historical stages in the study of religion in modern China, draws out the genealogy of major figures and intellectual achievements in a variety of research traditions, and highlights as well the challenges and evolutions experienced by the main disciplines in the last 30 years.

This volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested by religions in modern Chinese societies (i.e., mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese communities oversea). Using a wide range of methods, from textual analysis to fieldwork, it presents case studies via the disciplines of religious studies, anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.

Author / Editor information

André Laliberté, University of Ottawa, Canada and Stefania Travagnin, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Reviews

"This volume succeeds in both scope and thoroughness. Anyone with an interest in the study of Chinese religion would greatly benefit from it." Joseph Chadwin in: Religious Studies Review, 4/2020

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Note on Chinese Names, Terms and Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction André Laliberté and Stefania Travagnin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Definition of Religion for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond Fenggang Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Contemporary Confucian Revival: Reflecting on the Nation, the State and Modernity Alex Payette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
From Missionaries to Scientists: Reflections on the History of the Anglophone Study of Chinese Protestant Christianity Christopher A. Daily Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
From Neglected Problem to Flourishing Field: Recent Developments of Research on Muslims and Islam in China Wai-Yip Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Epistemic Communities of Buddhist Scholarship in Modern China: Narratives and Paradigms André Laliberté and Stefania Travagnin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Advancing the Ethnographic Study of Han Buddhism in China Brian J. Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Encountering the Other in the Study of Chinese Religions: Constructing Borderland Buddhism in Chinese and Euro-American Scholarship of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Bringing Religion Back In: Political Science and the Study of Religion in China Susan K. McCarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Chinese Political Science and the Study of Religion André Laliberté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
For a History of Religious Ideas in Modern and Contemporary China Vincent Goossaert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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eBook published on:

August 5, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783110547801

Hardcover published on:

August 5, 2019

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110546439

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Front matter:

13

Main content:

260

Illustrations:

1

Tables:

1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547801

eBook ISBN: 9783110547801

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110546439

Keywords for this book

History of Chinese religions; anthropology of religion in China; sociology of religion in China; political science and religion in China.

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Graduate students and scholars of Chinese religions, history, social science, theories and methods in the study of religion.

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Volume I State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches

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