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By Fenggang Yang

ISBN-10: 9004182462

ISBN-13: 9789004182462

This ebook presents a sampling of contemporary box reports of religions in China, besides theoretical reflections via sociologists, anthropologists and spiritual reports students, either in and out China, at the revival of the social medical learn of faith in chinese language societies.

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Moreover, since we can identify very few works of substance, beyond several discussions of definition and characteristics, which are sufficiently consistent with the aforementioned classification, it would seem that the subdiscipline of “Hanyu Shenxue” lacks any concrete content. The abovementioned issues are but a few of the conceptual challenges confronted by the Chinese field of religious studies. Additional issue include the connection between religion and extremism or terrorism as well as the relationships between native and non-native religions and past and present religious conditions in China.

In short, from the early 20th century up until the ascendency to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, the field of Chinese religious studies followed a course of early development not unlike that of its Western counterpart, with numerous accomplished scholars and influential works emerging amidst a tumultuous environment of continuous revolution and warfare. Following the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, all academic activities, as all other cultural and social activities, fell subject to the authority of Marxist-Leninist and Mao Zedong thought, and all academic institutions were transformed into organs of the CCP.

Conceptual Confusion While the vast majority of public discourse on religion derives from academia, a number of conceptual confusions have already begun to emerge among both professional and amateur scholars in the field. The following examples were taken from a number of major discussions and debates concerning issues of fundamental theoretical significance in contemporary Chinese society. 1) Concerning the relationship of religion to culture: The prevalent position among scholars of religion still reduces religion to a kind of culture or cultural form, ignoring the differences between the tangible and intangible aspects of religion which constitute the fundamental difference between religion and culture.

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