Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010006
Andrew T. Kaiser
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Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010002
Fenggang Yang
In this combined interview, Rodney Stark and Roger Finke share their thoughts on the development of the religious market theory, religious change in the United States, and Christian growth in China. The interview with Rodney Stark was conducted by telephone in late December 2020 and the interview with Roger Finke by email in early January 2021.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010005
J. Lee
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Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010007
Dean Wang
{"title":"Fabian Graham, Voices from the Underworld: Chinese Hell Deity Worship in Contemporary Singapore and Malaysia","authors":"Dean Wang","doi":"10.1163/22143955-08010007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22143955-08010007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29882,"journal":{"name":"Review of Religion and Chinese Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43917244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010003
M. Bingenheimer
With Building the Buddhist Revival, Gregory Adam Scott has significantly contributed to a growing number of studies of Chinese Buddhist institutions and to better under standing the material lives of Buddhist monks and nuns and their financial and political connections. Building on the works of Holmes Welch and Johannes PripMøller, among others, Scott’s book is a history of Buddhist monasteries that were reconstructed in China between 1866 and 1966.1 Scott begins his compelling study by recognizing that Buddhist monasteries in China are complex and hierarchical social spaces imbued with sacred power, but also in many cases deeply involved with statecraft. Consequently, further understanding their relational complexities will deepen our knowledge of Chinese Buddhist history well beyond just the history of ideas. Scott writes convincingly that Chinese Buddhist monasteries are “eco nomically and socially distinct entities that support resident religious specialists and attract visitors drawn by their reputation for discipline, teaching, and numinous efficacy” (p. 4). These are all attributes I tried to decipher economically in an earlier study I did of Chinese Buddhist monasteries during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, particularly Tiantong Monastery 天童寺 in Zhejiang province.2 This is one of a handful of monasteries in that region that survived the Taiping War (1850–1864), a period of widespread destruction of temples, and a period during which, as Scott explores, many reconstructions took place. In this earlier study of mine, I explored the economic ramifications (in terms of both economic and cultural capital) of large Buddhist monasteries in China. I wanted to better understand how monastic institutions supported themselves economically while simul taneously doing the salvific work required of what Scott rightly calls a “merit economy” (p. 16). Scott makes the case that the production and transference of merit by Buddhist institutions had social, political, and economic implications across the imperial spectrum. By the Ming 明 (1368–1644), Buddhist monasteries were in many instances bases of political and economic power and integral to the stability of the imperium. In my study of Tiantong Monastery, in exploring how Buddhist monasteries could support themselves economically, socially, and politically, one of my guiding lines of inquiry was to ask what type of monastic space was produced in order to achieve both income and salvific outcomes. While different from Scott’s inquiry, there is some reso nance with his focus on institutional reconstructions. It was when these institutions were destroyed for any number of reasons that Scott finds his guiding question. He writes, “I would like to better understand how and why people repeatedly generated the motivation and resources to reconstruct them after they had been destroyed, and how the means by which reconstructions were undertaken and the implications they had for Buddhism in China chan
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Pub Date : 2021-06-16DOI: 10.1163/22143955-08010008
Leei Wong
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Pub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.1163/22143955-20200004
F. Ying
The relationship between religion and social movements is an important topic in the study of religion and society. This paper uses various textual and online sources to examine the role of Christianity in the anti-extradition bill movement that took place in Hong Kong from April to September 2019. The anti-extradition bill movement, which later evolved into a much wider movement against totalitarianism, has caused churches to grapple with church-state relations in the post-handover era. This paper employs the notion of “public religion” as an analytical framework to examine the process of the “deprivatization” of Christianity in Hong Kong. How does the ongoing contestation, both within and outside the church, reflect the challenges faced by Christianity when entering the public sphere? By answering the above questions, we will be able to explicate the religio-political significance of the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-04DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00702001
A. Sun
It has been over a century since the 1915 publication of Max Weber’s The Religion of China: Confucianism and Daoism. In the past decades, we have been wrestling with Weber not only over the issue of the rise of the spirit of modern capitalism in China, but also the issue of Confucianism as a religion in China. However, the second half of Weber’s seminal text, which is on Daoism, is often ignored. For Weber, Confucianism as the orthodoxy and Daoism as the heterodoxy are two halves of Chinese society that cannot be separated. Their interdependence creates the very fabric of Chinese social, political, and religious life. In this special issue, we have gathered scholars of Confucianism as well as of Daoism to have an open conversation with one another. These papers originated from the symposium “Confucianism and Daoism: From Max Weber to the Present,” sponsored by the Purdue University Center on Religion and Chinese Society, which took place on March 11, 2018. It does not happen often that scholars of Confucianism and scholars of Daoism come together for discussions of Weber as well as their own respective research projects. We were especially fortunate to have a group of interdisciplinary scholars from fields as diverse as sociology, religious studies, East Asian Studies, history, and philosophy. In “The Last Confucian in the Rice Paddy of Java,” Yong Chen examines the case of Confucianism in contemporary Indonesia through the lens of an anthropology of Confucianism. He asks how “popular Confucianism,” which has components of religious traditions beyond Confucianism, can inform us about the larger sociopolitical and cultural conditions of contemporary Confucianism. By pushing the boundaries of what it means to live a Confucian life, Chen suggests that Confucianism as lived experiences is often far more porous and expansive than what is commonly assumed. In “From Female Daoist Rationality to Kundao Practice,” Robin Wang compares two cases of female Daoist
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Pub Date : 2020-12-04DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00702011
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Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00701001
Gareth Fisher
This special issue of Review of Religion in Chinese Society is devoted to an examination of the state of the field in scholarship on Chinese Buddhism since the death of Mao. It is based on a consultative meeting that was held at the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University on April 28, 2018. The meeting featured a discussion among leading scholars in contemporary Chinese Buddhism whose revised work is presented in this issue. Drawing on our discussions at the consultative meeting, the articles in this issue extend the legacy of Holmes Welch, whose three monographs on modern Chinese Buddhism (Welch 1967, 1968, 1972) broke new ground beyond the textual studies of the time to present a rich picture of Chinese Buddhism as a lived tradition in early to mid-twentieth century China. All of the contributors to this issue have undertaken extensive longitudinal studies of Buddhism in the post-Mao era and here combine their own findings with a critical discussion of the growing corpus of social scientific studies of contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Three of the contributors have published their own monographs on the topic (Fisher 2014; Borchert 2017; Caple 2019) while the other two have published seminal articles and edited volumes (Gildow 2014; Travagnin 2016, 2019). Douglas Gildow begins the issue with a survey of developments in Han Chinese monasticism since the beginning of the post-Mao revival in the late 1970s. Drawing extensively from his own recent ethnographic research, Gildow questions the notion of a continuous revival of monastic institutions and lineages over the last forty years, suggesting instead that after an initial period of revival in the last two decades of the twentieth century, monasticism has plateaued and even may be now on the decline. Gareth Fisher’s article complements Gildow’s by discussing the evolution of the laity within Han Chinese
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