Hybridising Minjian Religion in South China

Participants, Rituals, and Architecture

Bibliographic Data

ID3134957
AuthorsHuanyu Guo (South China Agricultural University), Canglong Wang (0000-0002-2836-3079, University of Hull, corresponding author), Youping Nie (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Xiaoxiang Tang (0009-0009-4961-2095, South China University of Technology)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue5
Pages384
Publication date2022-04-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13050384
OpenAlexW4224308629
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This study focuses on the ongoing hybridisation of minjian (folk or popular, literally "among the people") religious activities in rural areas of south China. It demonstrates recent changes in religious hybridisation through extensive fieldwork in two villages. It also investigates intellectual debate on the concept of minjian religion and presents the relationship between state power and the religious revival in contemporary Chinese society. It then draws on fieldwork data to examine the hybrid nature of Chinese minjian religion from three aspects: the diversification of participants, the performative hybridisation of rituals, and the blending of spatial layouts. The main argument is that the revival of minjian religion involves the hybridisation of mystical and secular elements and of traditional and modern elements through the complex interactions between rural communities and official authorities

Aesthetics · Art · China · Mysticism · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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