Speaking to My Ancestors
An Ethnographic Study of Lived Childhood Religion in Rural Gansu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22351900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Chadwin (0000-0002-6279-0349, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 177-206 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2521-702X • E-ISSN: 2521-7038 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/vjeas-2020-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W3090300630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article provides an overview of the major existing scholarship pertaining to childhood religion in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). More specifically, it examines lived childhood religion in a rural village in Gānsù province. This article challenges the commonly preconceived notion that children in the PRC do not regard religious belief as important and simply mirror the religious practices of their guardians. By utilising ethnographic data, I argue that children in the PRC are capable of constructing their own unique form of lived religion that is informed by, but crucially distinct from, the religious beliefs and practices of adults. The practices and beliefs of this lived religion can be extremely important to children and the evidence from fieldwork suggests that they tend to take both their practice and belief very seriously
China · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Epistemology · Ethnography · Lived experience · Lived religion · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Religious belief · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Education and Schools
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |