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Since its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious traditions in China, is one of the first in English that answers these questions. From the top down, Sinicization is a project to control all forms of religion in China, even ancient indigenous forms, to make them conform to the demands of its Party-State. From the bottom up, however, religious believers are using the slogan either to sincerely attempt to adapt traditional practices to their modern cultural context or to protect their faith by offering lip service to government demands – or some combination of the two.

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Author:   Richard Madsen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9789004465176

ISBN 10:   9004465170
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   10 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Richard Madsen 1 Sinicization or Chinafication?  Cultural Assimilation vs. Political Domestication of Christianity in China and Beyond   Fenggang Yang 2 “Official Confucianism” as Newly Sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party   Yong Chen 3 The Sinicization of Buddhism and Its Competing Reinventions of Tradition   Weishan Huang 4 Already Post-Modern: Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization  Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization   Dong Wang 5 Faith in the Future/Practices of the Past  A Sinicized Islamic Revival among the Hui of Xining   Alexander Stewart 6 Xiejiao, Cults, and New Religions: Making Sense of the New Un-Sinicized Religions on China’s Fringe   J. Gordon Melton Index

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Richard Madsen is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, San Diego and the author of many books on morality, politics, and religion in China.

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