2. Redeploying Confucius: The Imperial State Dreams of the Nation, 1902–1911

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Religious Approaches to Citizenship The Traffic between Religious Orders and the Secular National Order
6. 1. Religion and Citizenship in China and the Diaspora 43
7. 2. Redeploying Confucius: The Imperial State Dreams of the Nation, 1902–1911 65
8. Part II. State Discourse and the Transformation of Religious Communities
9. 3. Ritual Competition and the Modernizing Nation-State 87
10. 4. Heretical Doctrines, Reactionary Secret Societies, Evil Cults: Labeling Heterodoxy in Twentieth-Century China 113
11. 5. Animal Spirits, Karmic Retribution, Falungong, and the State 135
12. 6. Christianity and “Adaptation to Socialism” 155
13. 7. Islam and Modernity in China: Secularization or Separatism? 179
14. Part III. The Reinvention and Control of Religious Institutions
15. 8. Republican Church Engineering: The National Religious Associations in 1912 China 209
16. 9. Secularization as Religious Restructuring: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes 233
17. 10. State Control of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in the People’s Republic of China 261
18. Part IV. Taiwan and Transnational Chinese Religiosity
19. 11. Religious Renaissance and Taiwan’s Modern Middle Classes 295
20. 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait: Matrifocal Ritual Space, Nation-State, and Satellite Television Footprints 323
21. Notes 349
22. Bibliography 377
23. Glossary and Chinese Proper Names 437
24. Contributors 451
25. Index 455