TY - BOOK ID - 40435697 TI - Paradigm shifts in early and modern Chinese religion : a history PY - 2019 VL - 34 34 SN - 9789004383111 9789004385764 9004385762 9789004385726 900438572X 9004383115 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Religion and state KW - Religion and politics KW - Social change KW - History. KW - China KW - Religion. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Intellectual life KW - Religion and politics. KW - Religion and state. KW - Social change. KW - History KW - China. KW - S13A/0200 KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - China: Religion--General works KW - Religion and state - China. KW - Religion and politics - China. KW - Social change - China - History. KW - China - Religion. KW - China - Religious life and customs. KW - China - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40435697 AB - "From the fifth century BC to the present and dealing with the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) as well as popular religion, this introduction to the eight-volume Early and Modern Chinese Religion explores key ideas and events in four periods of paradigm shift in the intertwined histories of Chinese religion, politics, and culture. It shows how, in the Chinese church-state, elite processes of rationalization, interiorization, and secularization are at work in every period of major change and how popular religion gradually emerges to a position of dominance by means of a long history of at once resisting, adapting to, and collaborating with elite-driven change. Topics covered include ritual, scripture, philosophy, state policy, medicine, sacred geography, gender, and the economy. It also serves as the basis for an on-line Coursera course"-- ER -