David Ownby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 249671 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Ownby |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Ownby |
| FIRMA | OWNBY D |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
La montée en puissance de la Chine et la réponse des intellectuels publics chinois
Self as Method
This open access book provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves
Reclaiming the Wilderness
China and the West
Qin Hui, Zouchu dizhi
Inside the Church of Almighty God
Meng Wanzhou Surely Won't be the Last
Jiang Shigong (b. 1967) is a professor of law at Peking University and a prominent member of China's New Left, as well as a talented apologist for Xi Jiping Thought. This text, originally published in August, 2019, was republished online on September 26, 2020, following Meng Wanzhou's return to China. Jiang, who writes frequently about empire, and particularly the American empire, penned this text to explain to Chinese readers the legal mechanism…
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of scholars. The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditio…
Voices from the Chinese Century
Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s main intellectual clusters.
The “Redemption” of Redemptive Societies
“Redemptive societies” is a term often used to refer to the organized expression of salvationist religious activity in Republican period China. These groups were a major part of Chinese social and cultural life in the decades preceding the Communist revolution, and are related, in ways that remain unclear, to the “White Lotus” sectarian traditions under the dynasties, and to the qigong boom of the 1980s and 1990s. This article assesses the state …
Make China Marxist Again
The renewed embrace of Marxism has been a key element in "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era," added to China's constitution last year. But the Marxism that Xi and his propagandists are pushing is not what one would expect from a serious reading of the Manifesto. Nor is it the lumbering apparatus of the Stalinist state. The lessons of Marx, Xi declares, are that Marxism changes with the times, that it must …
Research dialogues on the intellectual public sphere in China (Part II)
Mapping the intellectual public sphere in China today
The papers in this research dialogue section are the product of a project that examines intellectual life in China since the 1990s - chiefly the efforts by academic public intellectuals to rethink China's past, present, and future in light of the excesses of Mao's revolution, the challenges emerging from reform, and the rise of China to the status of world economic power. Chinese scholars, having benefited from China's openness to the world and t…
Making Saints in Modern China
Making Saints in Modern China offers a new perspective on the history of religion in modern and contemporary China by focusing on the profiles of religious leaders from the early twentieth century through the early twenty-first century. The volume offers biographies of prominent Daoists and Buddhists, as well as of the charismatic leaders of redemptive societies and state managers of religious associations in the Republican period and in the Peop…
Secret Societies Reconsidered
The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While some expect China's political reform to lead to democratization, others have proposed to strengthen the institution of single-party rule and provide it …
Popular Religion and Shamanism
Journal Article Popular Religion and Shamanism Get access Popular Religion and Shamanism. Edited by Ma Xisha and Meng Huiying. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. 502pp. $230.00. David Ownby David Ownby Université de MontréalMontreal, Canada [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 54, Issue 1, Winter 2012, Pages 136–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/…
Kang Xiaoguang
This article examines the academic and intellectual career of Kang Xiaoguang, a prominent advocate of Confucianism and of the establishment of Confucianism as China’s state religion. It argues that Kang’s advocacy is rooted in a utilitarian vision of religion, and a pragmatic desire to encourage the development of healthy state-society relations in twenty-first century China.
Kang Xiaoguang et le projet d’une religion confucéenne. Itinéraire d’un intellectuel engagé
Cet article analyse le parcours académique et intellectuel de Kang Xiaoguang, éminent défenseur du confucianisme et de son instauration comme religion d’État en Chine. Il démontre que le plaidoyer de Kang est ancré dans une vision utilitaire de la religion, et dans un désir pragmatique d’encourager le développement de relations saines entre l’État et la société dans la Chine du XXIe siècle
Mapping Charisma in Chinese Religion
International audience
In Search of Charisma
Based on the author's fieldwork between 1999 and 2002, this essay examines the question of charisma among Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese diaspora in North America. It explores two types of charisma: an embodied charisma where the individual practitioner's expectations of the extraordinary are experienced as bodily transformation; and a charisma of martyrdom based on a teleology of resistance to the People's Republic of China's campaign a…
Falun Gong and the Future of China
This book treats Falun Gong as an example of one form of Chinese popular religion, and the core of the volume, based on a close reading of founder Li Hongzhi's writings and on fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese diaspora in North America, offers a detailed description of the doctrine, practices, and appeal of Falun Dafa (the term practitioners use to describe their “cultivation practice”). It is argued that Falun Gong, and the…
Telling Stories. Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Sect and Secularism in Reading the Modern
Cet article examine l'historiographie occidentale des mouvements « sectaires » chinois et montre comment les chercheurs ont repris à leur compte les constructions de l'État impérial d'une tradition sectaire unifiée, décrite comme l'ennemi de l'État et de la société. Cette construction a empêché les chercheurs de voir les continuités entre les mouvements religieux populaires de l'époque impériale et les nouveaux mouvements du XXe siècle (redemptiv…
Qigong, Falun Gong, et la religion de l'État moderne chinois
Depuis 1999, le conflit, très médiatisé, entre l'État chinois et le Falun Gong a été souvent interprété selon les termes d'un débat bien connu en Occident, et en particulier sur le continent nord-américain : un débat qui oppose ceux qui, d'un côté, veulent défendre l'ordre social contre le danger de « cultes » ou « sectes », à ceux qui, de l'autre, veulent défendre la liberté de croyance et les « nouveaux mouvements religieux ». Le but du présent…
A History for Falun Gong
This article seeks to place Falun Gong - and the larger qigong movement from which it emerged - into the long-term context of the history of Chinese popular religion from the midMing (1368-1644) to the present. The argument developed is that Falun Gong and qigong are twentieth-century elaborations of a set of historical popular religious traditions generally labeled by scholars as "White Lotus Sectarianism." This article attempts both to look for…
Mapping the intellectual public sphere in China today
The papers in this research dialogue section are the product of a project that examines intellectual life in China since the 1990s - chiefly the efforts by academic public intellectuals to rethink China's past, present, and future in light of the excesses of Mao's revolution, the challenges emerging from reform, and the rise of China to the status of world economic power. Chinese scholars, having benefited from China's openness to the world and t…
The Heaven and Earth Society as Popular Religion
The profound disdain with which most governments-Qing, Republican, Communist, or, in the case of Southeast Asia, colonial-have treated Chinese secret societies, as well as the undeniable involvement of many of these societies in violent and criminal activities, have obscured the religious elements at the core of the early Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui), the most widespread and well-known of Chinese secret societies. The vast historiography …
Kang Xiaoguang et le projet d’une religion confucéenne. Itinéraire d’un intellectuel engagé
Cet article analyse le parcours académique et intellectuel de Kang Xiaoguang, éminent défenseur du confucianisme et de son instauration comme religion d’État en Chine. Il démontre que le plaidoyer de Kang est ancré dans une vision utilitaire de la religion, et dans un désir pragmatique d’encourager le développement de relations saines entre l’État et la société dans la Chine du XXIe siècle
The Falun Gong in the New World
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Imperial Fantasies
The spectacular confrontation between the Chinese government and the Falungong spiritual movement has focused attention on the very visible conflict between state and religion in China's urban areas. Conflict and violence have also accompanied the explosion of popular religious activities in the rural areas of post-Mao China, where much of the conflict is subdued and largely invisible to the outside observer. Christians are denied the permits nec…
Ancestors
The Ethnic Feud in Qing Taiwan
Vol. 11, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1990 THE ETHNIC FEUD IN QING TAIWAN: WHAT IS THIS VIOLENCE BUSINESS, ANYWAY? AN INTERPRETATION OF THE 1782 ZHANG-QUAN XIEDOU David Ownby* Introduction At least 55 incidents of xiedou violence occurred in Taiwan between 1768 and 1888.1 As xiedou was a broad category of violence, these incidents varied in scope and nature, but their frequency suggests the severity of the social problem represented by such inci…
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China
The Heaven and Earth Society as Popular Religion
The profound disdain with which most governments-Qing, Republican, Communist, or, in the case of Southeast Asia, colonial-have treated Chinese secret societies, as well as the undeniable involvement of many of these societies in violent and criminal activities, have obscured the religious elements at the core of the early Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui), the most widespread and well-known of Chinese secret societies. The vast historiography …
Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China
This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of “secret society.” The author suggests that the secret society is properly understood as one variety of the “brotherhood association,” a category that encompasses a range of popular fraternal organizations that flourished in the early and mid-Qing period. The book begins by describing the proliferation of brotherhood …
Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China
Chinese Millenarian Traditions
TESTING THE WATERS OF FIELDWORK after years in musty archives, I ventured into the North China countryside in 1993, researching a Republican-period sect that had rebelled against both Nationalist and Communist authorities from the 1920s through the 1950s. I was astonished to find that the group-part of the revival of popular religion and popular culture in post-Mao China-was alive and well, holding temple fairs, exorcising illnesses, copying and …
Chinese Millenarian Traditions
China's Transition
Falun Dafa Practitioners
Other| October 01 2000 Falun Dafa Practitioners: A Preliminary Research Report Susan Palmer, Susan Palmer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar David Ownby David Ownby Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 4 (1): 133–137. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2000.4.1.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Sh…
Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads
Recent Chinese Scholarship on the History of Chinese Secret Societies
Late Imperial China - Volume 22, Number 1, June 2001
Falungong and Canada's China Policy
ZHANG KUNLUN, A FORMER MCGILL UNIVERSITY visiting professor who holds both Canadian and Chinese passports, returned to China on his Chinese passport in 1996 to take care of his ailing mother-in-law. In July 2000, he was detained for one month for performing Falungong exercises in a public park. He was detained again in October, and, in November, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in a labour camp. Luckily for Zhang, family and friends i…
Power of the Wheel
Imperial Fantasies
The spectacular confrontation between the Chinese government and the Falungong spiritual movement has focused attention on the very visible conflict between state and religion in China's urban areas. Conflict and violence have also accompanied the explosion of popular religious activities in the rural areas of post-Mao China, where much of the conflict is subdued and largely invisible to the outside observer. Christians are denied the permits nec…
A History for Falun Gong
This article seeks to place Falun Gong - and the larger qigong movement from which it emerged - into the long-term context of the history of Chinese popular religion from the midMing (1368-1644) to the present. The argument developed is that Falun Gong and qigong are twentieth-century elaborations of a set of historical popular religious traditions generally labeled by scholars as "White Lotus Sectarianism." This article attempts both to look for…
The Falun Gong in the New World
Despite the polarised debate which has raged in the media over whether the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong should be seen as an ‘evil cult’ or as an innocent ‘cultivation system’, there is little doubt that most objective Western scholars would categorise Falun Gong as a new religious movement (many of which have also been accused rightly or wrongly of being ‘cults’ or ‘sects’). Indeed, the controversy surrounding Falun Gong has attracted c…
The Falun Gong in the New World
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Qigong, Falun Gong, et la religion de l'État moderne chinois
Depuis 1999, le conflit, très médiatisé, entre l'État chinois et le Falun Gong a été souvent interprété selon les termes d'un débat bien connu en Occident, et en particulier sur le continent nord-américain : un débat qui oppose ceux qui, d'un côté, veulent défendre l'ordre social contre le danger de « cultes » ou « sectes », à ceux qui, de l'autre, veulent défendre la liberté de croyance et les « nouveaux mouvements religieux ». Le but du présent…
Mapping Charisma in Chinese Religion
International audience
In Search of Charisma
Based on the author's fieldwork between 1999 and 2002, this essay examines the question of charisma among Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese diaspora in North America. It explores two types of charisma: an embodied charisma where the individual practitioner's expectations of the extraordinary are experienced as bodily transformation; and a charisma of martyrdom based on a teleology of resistance to the People's Republic of China's campaign a…
Falun Gong and the Future of China
This book treats Falun Gong as an example of one form of Chinese popular religion, and the core of the volume, based on a close reading of founder Li Hongzhi's writings and on fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners in the Chinese diaspora in North America, offers a detailed description of the doctrine, practices, and appeal of Falun Dafa (the term practitioners use to describe their “cultivation practice”). It is argued that Falun Gong, and the…
Telling Stories. Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Sect and Secularism in Reading the Modern
Cet article examine l'historiographie occidentale des mouvements « sectaires » chinois et montre comment les chercheurs ont repris à leur compte les constructions de l'État impérial d'une tradition sectaire unifiée, décrite comme l'ennemi de l'État et de la société. Cette construction a empêché les chercheurs de voir les continuités entre les mouvements religieux populaires de l'époque impériale et les nouveaux mouvements du XXe siècle (redemptiv…
Kang Xiaoguang
This article examines the academic and intellectual career of Kang Xiaoguang, a prominent advocate of Confucianism and of the establishment of Confucianism as China’s state religion. It argues that Kang’s advocacy is rooted in a utilitarian vision of religion, and a pragmatic desire to encourage the development of healthy state-society relations in twenty-first century China.
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