Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts

Clart, Philip (Editor)/ Ownby, David (Editor)/ Wang, Chien-chuan (Editor)

ISBN 10: 900442413X / ISBN 13: 9789004424135

Verlag: Brill Academic Pub, 2020

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342 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts
• Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 900442413X
• ISBN-13: 9789004424135
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,7 Kilogramm

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Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of scholars. The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditions (how to “modernize” traditional discourse), textual authority (the role of texts in making a master a master), and the distribution of texts (via China’s experience of “print capitalism”). Throughout, the goal is to explore in depth what some scholars have called the most vital aspect of Chinese religion during the Republican period.

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Philip Clart, Ph.D. (1997), University of British Columbia, is Professor of Chinese Culture and History at Leipzig University, Germany. He works on popular religion and new religious movements in Taiwan, as well as literature and religions of late imperial China.
David Ownby, Ph.D. (1989), Harvard University, is Professor of History at the Université de Montréal. He has published books and articles on Chinese secret societies, Chinese religion, and contemporary Chinese intellectuals.
Wang Chien-chuan, Ph.D. (2003), National Chung Cheng University, is Assistant Professor at the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on Chinese popular religion, prophetic texts, late imperial popular religion, and contemporary Daoism, Buddhism, spirit-writing, and charity.