Space of Religion

Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China

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Av Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank

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Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2024 Francis H.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian AnthropologyThe Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression during the Cultural Revolution. The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple in order to explore the practice of Buddhism in modern China and the complex relationship between Buddhism and the Chinese state.Based on three decades of ethnographic research, Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank tell the story of Nanputuo against the backdrop of a dramatic stretch of Chinese history. They vividly depict episodes such as renovating the halls, reestablishing ties with overseas Chinese donors, conflicts with local government, revival of ritual life, reopening of its Buddhist academy, and the passion of the Guanyin birthday festival. To understand Nanputuo, Buddhist communities, and other temples in Xiamen, Ashiwa and Wank develop the concept of religion as a space constituted by physical, semiotic, and institutional dimensions. They also show how the Chinese state and Buddhism have each adapted to the other, as the temple has adjusted to government policy while the state has deployed Buddhism in its promotion of Chinese culture.This interdisciplinary book is both a theoretically generative analysis of religious spaces and an empirically rich account of the recovery of Buddhism in China after the Mao era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-29
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Antal sidor440
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231197342
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion 2024

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Yoshiko Ashiwa is professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University and visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo.David L. Wank is professor emeritus at Sophia University and visiting researcher at the Oriental Library, Tokyo.Ashiwa and Wank have worked together extensively, including coediting Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China (2009).

AcknowledgmentsConventionsGlossary of Temple Names in Xiamen CityIntroductionPart I: Concept, Spaces, History1. Themes and Concepts of the Study2. Physical and Semiotic Spaces of Nanputuo Temple3. Institutional Space and Nanputuo Temple’s Historical CapitalPart II: Recovery and Development of Nanputuo Temple4. Revival of Buddhist Practice and Education, 1982–19895. Expansion and Conflict in the Space of Religion, 1989–19956. Aligning with the Central State, 1996–2004Part III: Nanputuo Temple and Local Buddhist Communities7. Dynamism of Local Temples8. Devotees and Lay Nuns9. The Guanyin Festival: Being Buddhist the Chinese WayConclusionAppendix 1: Leaders of Nanputuo Temple, 1684–Appendix 2: Nanputuo Temple, a Millennium of Construction and RenewalAppendix 3: Buddhist College of Minnan Curriculum, 1989Appendix 4: Ordination Ceremony Schedule, October 13–29, 1989, Guanghua TempleNotesReferencesIndex

Based on extraordinarily rich ethnography, deep historical research, and a subtle theoretical framework, The Space of Religion shows how one of China’s most important temples reemerged, changed, and caused transformations of its political and cultural contexts over the past several decades. It makes a major advance toward understanding the surprising and consequential rise of a dynamic space for religion in China.