Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies /

This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, but he also goes beyon...

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Other Authors: Kuo, Cheng-tian, 1957- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Religion, state, and religious nationalism in Chinese societies / Cheng-tian Kuo
  • Part I. Chinese religion and nationalism before 1949. 2. The idea of Chineseness and ethnic thought of Wang Fuzhi / Chi-shen Chang
  • 3. Missionizing, civilizing, and nationizing: linked concepts of compelled change / Julia C. Schneider
  • 4. The nation in religion and religion in the nation / Adam Yuet Chau
  • 5. History and legitimacy in contemporary China: towards competing nationalisms / Robert D. Weatherley and Qiang Zhang
  • 6. Pilgrimage and Hui Muslim identity in the republican era / Yuan-lin Tsai
  • Part II. Religion and nationalism in contemporary China. 7. Religion and the nation: Confucian and New Confucian religious nationalism / Bart Dessein
  • 8. Yiguandao under the shadow of nationalism: traitors, conspirators, traditionalists, or loyalists? / Ching-chih Lin
  • 9. Daoism and nationalism in modern and contemporary China / Shu-wei Hsieh
  • 10. Nationalism matters: among mystics and martyrs of Tibet / Antionio Terrone
  • 11. 'We are good citizens': tension between Protestants and the state in contemporary China / Yen-zen Tsai
  • Part III. Religion and nationalism in Taiwan and Hong Kong. 12. Religion and national identity in Taiwan: state formation and moral sensibilities / Edmund Frettingham and Yih-Jye Hwang
  • 13. Multiple religious and national identities: Mazu pilgrimages across the Taiwan Strait after 1987 / Hsun Chang
  • 14. Salvation and rights in Hong Kong / Mariske Westensorp.