Loading Inventory...

Maoism And Grassroots Religion by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Xiaoxuan Wang

Current price: $39.95
Maoism And Grassroots Religion by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Maoism And Grassroots Religion by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Xiaoxuan Wang

Maoism And Grassroots Religion by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Current price: $39.95
Loading Inventory...

Size: 1 x 9.25 x 472

Visit retailer's website
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality. Drawing from unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions, memoirs, and interviews, ittells the story of local communities' encounter with the Communist revolution, and its consequences, especially competition and struggles for religious property and ritual space. Rather than being totally disrupted, Xiaoxuan Wang shows, religious life under Mao was characterized by remarkablevariety and unevenness and was contingent on the interactions of local dynamics with Maoist campaigns - including land reform, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. The revolutionary experience strongly determined the trajectories and development patterns of different religions, inter-religious dynamics, and state-religion relationships in the post-Mao era. Wang goes beyond the image of totalistic control and suppression, to show how Maoism is relevant to religious revitalization in the post-Mao era and, more broadly, the modern fate of Chinese religions and secularism inEast Asia. Maoism permanently altered the religious landscape in China, especially by inadvertently promoting the localization and even (in some areas) expansion of Protestant Christianity, as well as the reinvention of traditional communal religion. Contrary to the popular image of total suppression anddisruption during the Mao years, this book shows that religious changes under Mao were highly complex and contingent on a confluence of political campaigns, local politics and community responses. The post-Mao religious revival had deep historical roots in the Mao years, Wang argues, and cannot beexplained by contemporary economic motives and cultural logics alone. This book calls for a new understanding of Maoism and secularism in the People's Republic of China. | Maoism And Grassroots Religion by Xiaoxuan Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

More About Coles at Bayshore Shopping Centre

Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.

100 Bayshore Dr, Nepean, ON K2B 8C1, Canada

Powered by Adeptmind