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Making Saints in Modern China (Hardcover)
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Making Saints in Modern China (Hardcover)
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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 revolution, and the discomfort
of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted
religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and
creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure. This
book offers a new perspective on the history of religion in modern
and contemporary China by focusing on the profiles of these
religious leaders from the early 20th century through the present.
Edited by noted authorities in the field of Chinese religion,
Making Saints in Modern China offers biographies of prominent
Daoists and Buddhists, as well as of the charismatic leaders of
redemptive societies and state managers of religious associations
in the People's Republic. The focus of the volume is largely on
figures in China proper, although some attention is accorded to
those in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other areas of the Chinese
diaspora. Each chapter offers a biography of a religious leader and
a detailed discussion of the way in which he or she became a
"saint." The biographies illustrate how these leaders deployed and
sometimes retooled traditional themes in hagiography and
charismatic communication to attract followers and compete in the
religious marketplace. Negotiation with often hostile authorities
was also an important aspect of religious leadership, and many of
the saints' stories reveal unexpected reserves of creativity and
determination. The volume's contributors, from the United States,
Canada, France, Italy, and Taiwan, provide cutting-edge
scholarship-some of which is available here in English for the
first time. Taken together, these essays make the case that vital
religious leadership and practice has existed and continues to
exist in China despite the state's commitment to wholesale
secularization.
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