State of the Field and Disciplinary Approaches: 77 (Religion and Society, 77) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110546434 ISBN 13: 9783110546439

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2019

Synopsis

The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a variety of analytical approaches and theories about methodology, epistemology, and the ontology of the field. The three books display an interdisciplinary approach and offer debates that transcend national traditions. It engages with a variety of methodologies for the study of East Asian religions and promotes dialogues with Western and Chinese voices.

This volume covers successive historical stages in the study of religion in modern China, draws out the genealogy of major figures and intellectual achievements in a variety of research traditions, and highlights as well the challenges and evolutions experienced by the main disciplines in the last 30 years.

This volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested by religions in modern Chinese societies (i.e., mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese communities oversea). Using a wide range of methods, from textual analysis to fieldwork, it presents case studies via the disciplines of religious studies, anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.

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About the Authors

André Laliberté, University of Ottawa, Canada and Stefania Travagnin, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

André Laliberté, Universität Ottawa, Kanada und Stefania Travagnin, Universität Groningen, Niederlande.

From the Back Cover

This book is part of a three-volume overview of methodological and conceptual issues in the study of Chinese religions. It starts with an assessment of the major historical and ethnographic earliest texts, and move to the religious practitioners, academic figures, explorers and photographers who developed the study of the different religious traditions in modern China. The second part of the volume discusses methodological and disciplinary approaches that are currently used, with constructive conclusions on potential changes in research trajectories. These final chapters address methodological disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political science and history: they do so by discussing progress made in their specific fields, but also by addressing broader issues in the study of Chinese religions. Special attention is paid to non-Western, and in particular Chinese, scholarship.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110546434
• ISBN 13: 9783110546439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Laliberté