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The varieties of Confucian experience : documenting a grassroots revival of tradition / edited by Sebastien Billioud

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Billioud, Sébastien
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The birth of a new religion: the development of the Confucian congregation in Southeast China / Chen Na, Fan Lizhu and Chen Jinguo -- Making a virtue of piety: Dizigui and the discursive practice of Jingkong's network / Ji Zhe -- Popular groups promoting "The Religion of Confucius" in the Chinese Southwest and their activities since the nineteenth century (1840-2013): an observation centered on Yunnan's Eryuan County and environs / Wang Chien-Chuan -- Belief and faith: the situation and development of Confucianism in Yunnan Province / Chung Yun-ying -- Civil spirituality and Confucian piety today: the activities of Confucian temples in Qufu, Taipei, and Changchun / Nakajima Takahiro -- The revival of traditional culture and religious experience in modern urban life: the example of the Changchun Confucius temple / Ishii Tsuyoshi -- Contemporary Confucius temples life in Mainland China: report from the field / Anna Sun -- Rites bridging the ancient and modern: the revival of offerings at urban ancestral temples / Chen Bisheng -- An adventure called "Sishu": the tensions and vagaries of a "holistic" educational experience (zhengti jiaoyu) in today's rural China / Guillaume Dutournier and Wang Yuchen -- Confucian revival and the media: the CCTV "Lecture Room" program / Fabrice Dulery.
Summary
"Although the development of a 'popular' brand of Confucianism in China is today a massive phenomenon, research on the topic remains scarce. Based on field-work carried out by a team of scholars in different parts of the country, the ambition of The Varieties of Confucian Experience is to contribute to the limited body of ethnographic accounts that aim to document and understand the diversity of phenomena encapsulated under the label 'Confucian revival' in the first two decades of the 21st century"--
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9004374965
9789004374966 (electronic bk.)
9789004374959
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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