Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
- ISBN-10
- 0804758417
- ISBN-13
- 9780804758413
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank
Description
This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social science to develop a new approach to the study of state and religion in modern and contemporary China.
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