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The Religious Question in Modern China
作者: Vincent Goossaert / David A. Palmer
出版社: University Of Chicago Press
出版年: 2011-4-15
页数: 480
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226304168





内容简介  · · · · · ·
Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.

Vincent Goossaert and David A. Palmer piece together the puzzle of religion in China not by looking separately at different religions in different contexts, but by writing a unified story of how religion has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, modern Chinese society. From Chinese medicine and the martial arts to communal temple cults and revivalist redemptive societies, the authors demonstrate that from the nineteenth century onward, as the Chinese state shifted, the religious landscape consistently resurfaced in a bewildering variety of old and new forms. The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives in a comprehensive overview of China’s religious history that is certain to become an indispensible reference for specialists and students alike.

作者简介  · · · · · ·
Vincent Goossaert is deputy director of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. He is the author of The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics, among other books.

David A. Palmer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and fellow of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, among other books.

目录  · · · · · ·
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations, Character Sets, and Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I Religions and Revolutions
1. The Late Qing Religious Landscape
2. Ideology, Religion, and the Construction of a Modern State, 1898–1937
3. Model Religions for a Modern China: Christianity, Buddhism, and Religious Citizenship
4. Cultural Revitalization: Redemptive Societies and Secularized Traditions
5. Rural Resistance and Adaptation, 1898–1949
6. The CCP and Religion, 1921–66
7. Spiritual Civilization and Political Utopianism

PART II Multiple Religious Modernities: Into the Twenty-First Century
8. Alternative Trajectories for Religion in the Chinese World
9. Filial Piety, the Family, and Death
10. Revivals of Communal Religion in the Later Twentieth Century
11. The Evolution of Modern Religiosities
12. Official Discourses and Institutions of Religion
13. Global Religions, Ethnic Identities, and Geopolitics

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

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该书荣获2013年度列文森奖，颁奖词译文如下：


《现代中国的宗教问题》一书由高万桑和宗树人合著，是研究上世纪中国宗教问题的上乘之作。该书涉及的区域甚广，包括中国大陆、台湾新加坡的新华人阶层、东南亚甚至更远的离散社群。此书从汗牛充栋的研究中摘选并使得一般的中国读者经常忽略或者对中国的/发源于中国的宗教有成见的部分得以厘清。高万桑和宗树人揭示了宗教信仰、宗教活动和宗教组织在现代中国历史中的中心地位（centrality），将宗教带进了二十世纪中国的综合研究中来。

在他们开创性的研究中，高万桑和宗树人综合了英文、法文、中文、日文以及其他语言的研究。本书的篇幅很长，描述的也很细致，但是提出了一些关键问题：什么是中国的宗教？什么是社会生态学形塑了宗教，宗教也反之形塑了社会生态？从清朝到国民政府再到新中国，中国的国家和宗教实践、宗教社群之间的关系是什么？作者们阐释道，宗教是中国现代政治的核心变量，特别是政治宗教信仰在国民政府和毛时代的世俗化状况中所扮演的角色。在作者的中国宗教概念化操作中，这两个时代的政治宗教信仰都是明晰可比的。这个综合性的研究提供了一个对中国人生活中的宗教现实状况明晰易懂、信息量丰富和不吝欣赏的描述。其使现代中国宗教历史和当代宗教活动对严肃的比较研究颇有用处。