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Superstitious regimes : religion and the politics of Chinese modernity

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This title explores the recategorisation of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities in China. It also looks at how politicians conceived their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty.

Author(s): Nedostup, Rebecca
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs 322.
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 459
City: Array, Kina
Tags: Zhong guo guo min dang;Religion and politics -- China -- History -- 20th century;Church and state -- China -- History -- 20th century;Secularism -- China -- History -- 20th century;China -- History -- 1928-1937;China -- Politics and government -- 1928-1937;Church and state;Politics and government;Religion and politics;Secularism;China;Politik;Religion;China;Religion;Politik;Säkularismus;Nationalismus;Religionspolitik;Säkularismus;Nationalismus;Modernität;Religiöse Verfolgung;Kinesisk rel

Introduction: religion, modernity, nationalism --
Part I: Of legislation and ling --
Inventing religion --
Temples and the redefinition of public life --
Part II: Material motives --
Jiangsu temples as target and tactic --
Idealized communities and the religious remainder --
Part III: Transactional modernity --
Embodying superstition --
Affective regimes --
Conclusion: superstition's legacy.