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Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple |
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Fisher, Gareth (著)
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Modern China
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| Volume | v.38 n.3 |
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| Date | 2012.05 |
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| Pages | 346 - 376 |
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| Publisher | Sage |
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http://www.sagepub.com/
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| Location | London, UK [倫敦, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Gareth Fisher, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA |
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| Keyword | Buddhism; Beijing; modernization; social change; Mao Zedong |
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| Abstract | This article presents an ethnographic examination of a range of religious practices at the Buddhist Temple of Universal Rescue (Guangji si) in Beijing. Temple-goers engaged in both ritual practices in the temple's inner courtyard and moralistic conversations in the outer courtyard draw on recycled fragments of China's many "pasts" to form cultural repertoires. These repertoires provide the temple-goers with a cultural toolkit to enter into meaningful projects of self- and identity-making in an environment of rapid social change. Participants in different religious activities at the temple both add to and mobilize different elements in their repertoires as their life circumstances change. The example of the temple shows that, in the popular Chinese social arena, various past stages of China's history, including phases in its modernization process, have neither been abandoned nor superseded but remain as cultural resources to be drawn from as needed. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 346
Keywords 346
The Temple Setting 349
The Inner Courtyard: Devotes and Sutra Chanters 350
Chen Ling 352
Li Xiangqian 353
The Outer Courtyard: Preacher Circles and Discussion Groups 354
Creating Diverse Repertoires: Teacher Zhang and the Lotus Sutra Group 357
"Split Cultural Responses" and a Diversity of Repertoires 359
Changing One's Repertoire 361
Yu Jiali 363
Wang Xuan 364
Conclusion: Historical Metanarratives as Repertoire 367
Acknowledgments 370
Declaration of Conflicting Interests 370
Funding 370
Notes 370
References 374 |
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| ISSN | 00977004 (P); 15526836 (E) |
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| Hits | 173 |
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| Created date | 2023.09.26 |
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| Modified date | 2023.09.26 |
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