Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Figures
• Map
• Chronology
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation
• Introduction: Relationality at the Heart of Religion in China
• Why Are You Reading This Book?
• A Relational Approach to Understanding Chinese Religious Life
• What Is Religion? Do Spirits Exist?
• Spatial Expanse and Time Frame
• Statistics: The Numbers Game [Warning: User Beware!]
• The Author and the Sources
• Diverse Approaches to Studying Religion in China
• Notes
• 1: Understanding Religious Diversity: Five Modalities of Doing Religion
• Religious Diversity as Fact and Religious Pluralism as Ideology
• Modalities of Doing Religion
• Implications for Our Understanding of Religious Diversity
• Notes
• 2: Interacting with Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors
• Efficacy and Deity–Worshiper Relationships
• Worshiping Deities
• Divination
• Appeasing “Hungry Ghosts”
• Relationships with Ancestors
• The Household as Basic Unit of Religious Engagement
• The Hosting Idiom in Chinese Religious Practices
• Notes
• 3: Festivals and Pilgrimages
• Temple Associations and Temple Festivals
• Temple Festivals and Social Relationships
• Temple Festivals and Social Heat
• Temple Festivals and Inter-Communal Rivalry
• Gods Visiting Gods: Mazu Pilgrimages in Taiwan
• Ciji Pilgrimages: Re-Territorializing Universalism
• Drawing Power from Multiple Sites: New Age Spirit Cultivation in Contemporary Taiwan
• From China to Mecca: The Hajj Pilgrimage and the Chinese State
• Longwanggou Hosts a Tree Planting Event: The Visit of Beijing Arbortourists
• Mutual Capturing
• Notes
• 4: Ritual Service Providers and Their Clients
• Ritual Service and Efficacy
• A Yinyang Master at a Funeral
• Funeral Rituals Conducted by a Daoist Troupe in Shanxi Province
• The Daoist Ritual of Offering or Cosmic Renewal (jiao)
• Negative Relations: Dealing with Troublesome Spirit Ties
• An Exorcism That Involves Beheading a Cock
• “Beating the Mean Person” (Daxiaoren): Ritual of Cursing and Spellbinding One’s Enemy
• Rampant Commodification?
• The Relationship between Providers and Consumers of Ritual Services
• Notes
• 5: Communities and Networks
• The Formation of Religious Communities
• Monastic Communities and Networks
• Congregational Communities: Catholic and Protestant
• The Rise and Fall of Qigong Communities
• “Taking Refuge”: The Rise of Lay Confessional Identities
• Being a Ciji Person/Being a Religious Subject
• New Technologies and Religious Transmission
• Notes
• 6: State–Religion Relations
• Socialist Persecution of Religious Institutions
• State–Religion Interactions: The Official Regulatory Framework
• The Workings of the Religion Sphere
• Competition within the Modern Religion Sphere and the Rise of the Discursive-Scriptural Modality of Doing Religion
• The Emergence of a “Popular Religion Sphere”?
• The Discursive Construction of the “Superstition Specialist Households”
• Reforming Funerary and Burial Practices
• Notes
• Conclusions
• The Revival of Religious Traditions in Contemporary China
• The Relational Approach to Studying Religion and Society
• Note
• List of Chinese Terms
• Further Reading
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement