
Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority: The Bai People of Southwest China (Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780367590468
$65.45
This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the revived analytical concept of "alterity", which suggests a world beyond here and now. The book focuses on the particular institutions and ritual technologies that seek for access to the invisible, transcendental other--both spatial and temporal. It covers a variety of topics, including pre-modern kingship, modern utopia, religious alterity, ethnic identity, religious associations, the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and temple restorations.
- | Author: Liang Yongjia
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 14, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0367590468
- | ISBN-13: 9780367590468
- Author:
- Liang Yongjia
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Aug 14, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 176 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0367590468
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367590468