Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority: The Bai People of Southwest China

ISBN-13: 9780367590468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Liang Yongjia

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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