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Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Philip Clart
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Scholarly interest in print culture and in the study of religion in modern China has increased in recent years, propelled by maturing approaches to the study of
Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Philip Clart
Categories: China
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Research into the print culture of late-Qing and Republican China has revealed a vibrant world of print media. Recent studies have also shown that far from bein
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Philip Clart
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-ch’uan) offering essays on the mode
Recovering Buddhism in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Jan Kiely
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elite
Making Saints in Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 529
Authors: David Ownby
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolu