Liang Yongjia

Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority

The Bai People of Southwest China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, based on extensive original research among the Bai people considers how majority-minority ethnic relations have evolved over time. It discusses amongst many other issues how local religions emphasise ancestor cults which reinforce minorities' sense of their separate ethnicity, and concludes by assessing how these important issues are

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590468
• ISBN-10: 0367590468
• Artikelnr.: 69892928

Autorenporträt

Liang Yongjia is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Situating the Field
Chapter 2 Removing Religions in the 1950s and the early 1960s
Chapter 3 Introducing Ethnicity: The Promise of the Utopian Alterity
Chapter 4 Ethnicity Perpetuated: Nanzhao History between China and Thailand
Chapter 5 Religious Revival in Dali and Xizhou
Chapter 6 Culturalization of religion and ethnicity
Chapter 7 Temple lost
Temple Regained: The Sacred Public Space
Conclusion