Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China Tapa dura - 2020

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Hardback. New. 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, it tells 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 remarkable variety 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… Leer más

Oxford Univ Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 220 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.

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Oxford Univ Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 220 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.

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