Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China.
Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
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- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
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- Jansen1
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- B - Edited book
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- BRILL
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- 978-90-04-27151-7
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China investigates the transformation of China’s religious landscape under the impact of global influences since 1800. The interdisciplinary case studies analyze the ways in which processes of globalization are interlinked with localizing tendencies, thereby forging transnational relationships between individuals, the state and religious as well as non-religious groups at the same time that the global concept ‘religion’ embeds itself in the emerging Chinese ‘religious field’ and within the new academic disciplines of Religious Studies and Theology. The contributions unravel the intellectual, social, political and economic forces that shaped and were themselves shaped by the emergence of what has remained a highly contested category.
Jansen was the main organiser of the conference that eventually led to the publication of this volume, “Chinese Religions and Globalisation, 1800-Present” University of Cambridge, July 3-6, 2008.
His contribution to the volume consists of a case study based on hitherto unexamined source material, analysing the response to global events by popular religious groups in 19th century China. He also was the lead author for the introduction to the volume which tries to outline how this volume relates to the work of sociologists of religion such as Peter Beyer and Roland Robertson.
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