Edward Irons
Biographic Data
| ID | 4092330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Irons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Irons |
| SIGNATURE | IRONS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5515-8102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Yiguandao in Korea: International Growth of a Chinese New Religion
Yiguandao missions arrived in Korea no later than 1947. Despite many obstacles, including war and internal dissension, the movement has flourished in South Korea. Today there are three active major lineages and another seven smaller networks. This article relates the movement’s overall development in Korea. We begin by discussing key missions dispatched to Korea by Yiguandao’s founder Zhang Tianran. The northern port city of Tianjin was key to th…
Religious Leadership in New Religions
The introduction to this special issue on religious leadership in new religions discusses questions arising from existing published theoretical and empirical research into religious leadership. Theoretical contributions are made in articles by five authors, James T. Richardson, David G. Bromley, Liselotte Frisk, Susan J. Palmer, and Milda Ališauskienė. The articles by Frisk, Palmer, and Ališauskienė discuss original empirical data disclosing feat…
Maitreya’s Boundless Gaze: The Religious Implications of Maitreya Mega-Statues
Occupy Central: Towards A Geography of Presence
Occupy Central was a 79-day experiment in urban identity. Occupy-the Umbrella Revolution of 2014-rearranged space on the streets of Hong Kong. This rearranging suggests a geography of presence. Such a geography will explain how spaces of transit become spaces of meaning, how impersonal landscapes become imbued with memory. This paper takes up the warring ideologies-the accommodating and the discontented-as well as the range of lived experiences t…
Falun Gong and the Sectarian Religion Paradigm
The sectarian paradigm places newly formed religious groups not sanctioned by the state into a category of sectarian (jiaopai). In imperial times such groups were treated as heterodox and banned officially. They nevertheless traditionally survived well in the margins of society, in provincial centers, or allied with newlyascendant social groups. This paper discusses Falun Gong in light of this paradigm. Falun Gong is compared with two other relig…
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Falun Gong and the Sectarian Religion Paradigm
The sectarian paradigm places newly formed religious groups not sanctioned by the state into a category of sectarian (jiaopai). In imperial times such groups were treated as heterodox and banned officially. They nevertheless traditionally survived well in the margins of society, in provincial centers, or allied with newlyascendant social groups. This paper discusses Falun Gong in light of this paradigm. Falun Gong is compared with two other relig…
Occupy Central: Towards A Geography of Presence
Occupy Central was a 79-day experiment in urban identity. Occupy-the Umbrella Revolution of 2014-rearranged space on the streets of Hong Kong. This rearranging suggests a geography of presence. Such a geography will explain how spaces of transit become spaces of meaning, how impersonal landscapes become imbued with memory. This paper takes up the warring ideologies-the accommodating and the discontented-as well as the range of lived experiences t…
Religious Leadership in New Religions
The introduction to this special issue on religious leadership in new religions discusses questions arising from existing published theoretical and empirical research into religious leadership. Theoretical contributions are made in articles by five authors, James T. Richardson, David G. Bromley, Liselotte Frisk, Susan J. Palmer, and Milda Ališauskienė. The articles by Frisk, Palmer, and Ališauskienė discuss original empirical data disclosing feat…
Maitreya’s Boundless Gaze: The Religious Implications of Maitreya Mega-Statues
Yiguandao in Korea: International Growth of a Chinese New Religion
Yiguandao missions arrived in Korea no later than 1947. Despite many obstacles, including war and internal dissension, the movement has flourished in South Korea. Today there are three active major lineages and another seven smaller networks. This article relates the movement’s overall development in Korea. We begin by discussing key missions dispatched to Korea by Yiguandao’s founder Zhang Tianran. The northern port city of Tianjin was key to th…
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