Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality. Drawing from unexplored local state archives, records of religious institutions, memoirs, and interviews, it tells the story of local communities' encounter with the Communist revolution, and its consequences, especially competition and struggles for religious property and ritual space. Rather than being totally disrupted, Xiaoxuan Wang shows, religious life under Mao was characterized by remarkable variety and unevenness and was contingent on the interactions of local dynamics with Maoist campaigns--including land reform, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. The revolutionary experience strongly determined the trajectories and development patterns of different religions, inter-religious dynamics, and state-religion relationships in the post-Mao era. Wang goes beyond the image of totalistic control and suppression, to show how Maoism is relevant to religious revitalization in the post-Mao era and, more broadly, the modern fate of Chinese religions and secularism in East Asia.
Maoism permanently altered the religious landscape in China, especially by inadvertently promoting the localization and even (in some areas) expansion of Protestant Christianity, as well as the reinvention of traditional communal religion. Contrary to the popular image of total suppression and disruption during the Mao years, this book shows that religious changes under Mao were highly complex and contingent on a confluence of political campaigns, local politics and community responses.The post-Mao religious revival had deep historical roots in the Mao years, Wang argues, and cannot be explained by contemporary economic motives and cultural logics alone. This book calls for a new understanding of Maoism and secularism in the People's Republic of China.
4 有用 豆友2217079 2020-08-30 19:43:55
本來還擔心和自己的研究重疊(自🤦🏻♀️),原來是從土改和其他政治經濟面向全面考察毛時代對宗教的影響(而不是毛主義的宗教基礎),結合並比對地方資料和訪談。寫得真好。每種communal religion的經驗都有多元呈現,比如基督教的KMT/美國聯繫讓宗教成為政治問題。民國重在去除宗教迷信,毛時代重在改寫、統一、獨家闡釋迷信和信仰的定義,加上共產主義的國際力量和綜合性的政治經濟策略,更根本地改變了... 本來還擔心和自己的研究重疊(自🤦🏻♀️),原來是從土改和其他政治經濟面向全面考察毛時代對宗教的影響(而不是毛主義的宗教基礎),結合並比對地方資料和訪談。寫得真好。每種communal religion的經驗都有多元呈現,比如基督教的KMT/美國聯繫讓宗教成為政治問題。民國重在去除宗教迷信,毛時代重在改寫、統一、獨家闡釋迷信和信仰的定義,加上共產主義的國際力量和綜合性的政治經濟策略,更根本地改變了宗教生態。更重要的是可以看出毛時代對地方文化和傳統文化的碎片化,讓復興成為碎片化傳統的一種recycle. (展开)
0 有用 egg-white 2021-10-26 12:09:46
寫得很smooth
0 有用 exit2000 2022-05-12 23:58:55
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0 有用 没静电 2024-01-05 06:44:45 美国
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0 有用 没静电 2024-01-05 06:44:45 美国
you know the drill, Tell-You—How一系的老派掘古,无论是日本皇室的故事还是社义宗教,一切都是构建,都是幻象,这就是大工业知识生产,无须AI,人文早已终结
0 有用 半人馬的Z 2023-08-27 13:37:42 美国
忘標了.
0 有用 exit2000 2022-05-12 23:58:55
could have defended himself better, and he needs to be cautious abt the implication of his defense
0 有用 egg-white 2021-10-26 12:09:46
寫得很smooth
4 有用 豆友2217079 2020-08-30 19:43:55
本來還擔心和自己的研究重疊(自🤦🏻♀️),原來是從土改和其他政治經濟面向全面考察毛時代對宗教的影響(而不是毛主義的宗教基礎),結合並比對地方資料和訪談。寫得真好。每種communal religion的經驗都有多元呈現,比如基督教的KMT/美國聯繫讓宗教成為政治問題。民國重在去除宗教迷信,毛時代重在改寫、統一、獨家闡釋迷信和信仰的定義,加上共產主義的國際力量和綜合性的政治經濟策略,更根本地改變了... 本來還擔心和自己的研究重疊(自🤦🏻♀️),原來是從土改和其他政治經濟面向全面考察毛時代對宗教的影響(而不是毛主義的宗教基礎),結合並比對地方資料和訪談。寫得真好。每種communal religion的經驗都有多元呈現,比如基督教的KMT/美國聯繫讓宗教成為政治問題。民國重在去除宗教迷信,毛時代重在改寫、統一、獨家闡釋迷信和信仰的定義,加上共產主義的國際力量和綜合性的政治經濟策略,更根本地改變了宗教生態。更重要的是可以看出毛時代對地方文化和傳統文化的碎片化,讓復興成為碎片化傳統的一種recycle. (展开)