| Description |
xii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter One: Revolution and Religion: The Pre-1949 Encounter -- Chapter Two: The Land Revolution and Religious Communities in the Early 1950s -- Chapter Three: The Contests for Communal Temples in the Early 1950s to the Mid-1970s -- Chapter Four: Destruction and Renewal: Christian Churches from the Early 1950s to the Mid-1960s -- Chapter Five: Diversification and Unification: Protestant Churches during the Cultural Revolution -- Chapter Six: Mixed Blessings: Growth and Schisms among Protestant Churches, 1978-2014 -- Chapter Seven: Déjà Vu? -The Temple Reclamation Movement and the Revitalization of Rural Organizations, 1978-2014 -- Conclusion -- Chinese Term List |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book 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 hitherto 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 the competitions and struggles for religious property and ritual space. It demonstrates that, rather than being totally disrupted, religious life under Mao was characterized by remarkable variance and unevenness and was contingent on the interactions of local dynamics with Maoist campaigns-including the 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. This book argues that Maoism was destructively constructive to Chinese religions. It 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. In this vein, the post-Mao religious revival had deep historical roots in the Mao years, and cannot be explained by contemporary economic motives and cultural logics alone. This book calls for a renewed understanding of Maoism and secularism in the People's Republic of China"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
China -- Religious life and customs -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism. (OCoLC)fst00870421
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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Maoismus. (DE-588)4037432-4
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Religion. (DE-588)4049396-9
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Wenzhou. (DE-588)4269760-8
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wang, Xiaoxuan, Maoism and grassroots religion New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780190069407 (DLC) 2019040366 |
| ISBN |
9780190069384 hardcover |
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0190069384 hardcover |
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9780190069407 electronic book |
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