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Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China
- Title
- Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongjia.
- Author
- Liang, Yongjia
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- x, 176 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of 'alterity', which suggests a world beyond here and now. The book focuses on the particular institutions and ritual technologies that seek for access to the invisible, transcendental other--both spatial and temporal. It covers a variety of topics, including pre-modern kingship, communist utopia, religious alterity, ethnic identity, religious associations, the intangible cultural heritage, and temple restorations"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge contemporary Asia ; [63]
- Uniform Title
- Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 63.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Situating the field -- Removing religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s -- Introducing ethnicity: the promise of the utopian alterity -- Ethnicity perpetuated: Nanzhao history between China and Thailand -- Religious revival in Dali and Xizhou -- Culturalization of religion and ethnicity -- Temple lost, temple regained: the sacred public space.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8059
- ISBN
- 9780415528504
- 041552850X
- LCCN
- 2018004598
- 40028446028
- OCLC
- 1040205260
- Author
- Liang, Yongjia, author.
- Title
- Religious and ethnic revival in a Chinese minority : the Bai people of Southwest China / Liang Yongjia.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge contemporary Asia ; [63]Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 63.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028446028
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8059