
State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches
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The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a variety of analytical approaches and theories about methodology, epistemology, and the ontology of the field. The three books display an interdisciplinary approach and offer debates that transcend national traditions. It engages with a variety of methodologies for the study of East Asian religions and promotes dialogues with Western and Chinese voices.
This volume covers successive historical stages in the study of religion in modern China, draws out the genealogy of major figures and intellectual achievements in a variety of research traditions, and highlights as well the challenges and evolutions experienced by the main disciplines in the last 30 years.
This volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested by religions in modern Chinese societies (i.e., mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese communities oversea). Using a wide range of methods, from textual analysis to fieldwork, it presents case studies via the disciplines of religious studies, anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.
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"This volume succeeds in both scope and thoroughness. Anyone with an interest in the study of Chinese religion would greatly benefit from it." Joseph Chadwin in: Religious Studies Review, 4/2020More details
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- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Note on Chinese Names, Terms and Transliteration
- Introduction
- The Definition of Religion for the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China and Beyond
- Contemporary Confucian Revival: Reflecting on the Nation, the State and Modernity
- From Missionaries to Scientists: Reflections on the History of the Anglophone Study of Chinese Protestant Christianity
- From Neglected Problem to Flourishing Field: Recent Developments of Research on Muslims and Islam in China
- Epistemic Communities of Buddhist Scholarship in Modern China: Narratives and Paradigms
- Advancing the Ethnographic Study of Han Buddhism in China
- Encountering the Other in the Study of Chinese Religions: Constructing Borderland Buddhism in Chinese and Euro-American Scholarship of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Bringing Religion Back In: Political Science and the Study of Religion in China
- Chinese Political Science and the Study of Religion
- For a History of Religious Ideas in Modern and Contemporary China
- Index
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