Superstitious regimes

religion and the politics of Chinese modernity

Superstitious regimes
Rebecca Nedostup, Rebecca Nedo ...
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Superstitious regimes

religion and the politics of Chinese modernity

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Superstitious regimes: religion and the politics of Chinese modernity
2009, Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs -- 322

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.04/2
Library of Congress
DS777.48 .N43 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23736172M
ISBN 13
9780674035997
LCCN
2009038806
OCLC/WorldCat
435732308

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15326734W

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