Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-428) and index.
Introduction: religion, modernity, nationalism -- Part I: Of legislation and ling -- Inventing religion -- Temples and the redefinition of public life -- Part II: Material motives -- Jiangsu temples as target and tactic -- Idealized communities and the religious remainder -- Part III: Transactional modernity -- Embodying superstition -- Affective regimes -- Conclusion: superstition's legacy.
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This title explores the recategorisation of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities in China. It also looks at how politicians conceived their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty.
Zhong guo guo min dang
Church and state-- China-- History-- 20th century.
Religion and politics-- China-- History-- 20th century.