Gareth Fisher, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, 501 Hall of Languages, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
關鍵詞
Buddhism; Beijing; modernization; social change; Mao Zedong
摘要
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various past stages of China's history, including phases in its modernization process, have neither been abandoned nor superseded but remain as cultural resources to be drawn from as needed.
目次
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
