Ebook: Superstitious regimes : religion and the politics of Chinese modernity
Author: Nedostup Rebecca
- Genre: History
- Tags: Zhong guo guo min dang, Religion and politics -- China -- History -- 20th century, Church and state -- China -- History -- 20th century, Secularism -- China -- History -- 20th century, China -- History -- 1928-1937, China -- Politics and government -- 1928-1937, Church and state, Politics and government, Religion and politics, Secularism, China, Politik, Religion, China, Religion, Politik, Säkularismus, Nationalismus, Religionspolitik, Säkularismus, Nationalismus, Modernität, Religiöse Verfolgung, Kinesisk rel
- Series: Harvard East Asian monographs 322.
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
- City: Array, Kina
- Language: English
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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.