The Concept of Religion in China and the West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3896802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Goossaert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-20 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diogenes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0392192105050596 |
| OpenAlex | W2074965758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 8 |
The religious question in China is not limited to the contemporary tensions between the Catholic and Protestant churches and the Beijing regime, the repression suffered by Tibetan Buddhists or Uighur Muslims and the problems associated with so-called 'sectarian' movements. Though these issues are very important and worthy of interest in themselves, they have to be understood in a wider context which takes in the totality of religious realities in China, including those we in the West do not see because they fall outside our representations of what is religious. Furthermore, the contemporary religious question assumes meaning only if we consider all the struggles between the Chinese state and society's religious structures since the end of the 19 th century. In another publication I have sketched out the modern history of relations between the Chinese state and the religious structures of the society. Here I should like to show the importance of the concept of religion itself and of the controversies around it in the history of those conflicting relations. We shall see that the concepts, such as religion, used in the humanities and social sciences have consequences that go far beyond the context of academic debates and can help to feed repression and social conflict
Art · China · Confessional · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Religious freedom · Sociology · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions
Religion, Education, and the ‘East’ Addressing Orientalism and Interculturality in Religious Education Through Japanese and East Asian Religions
The Problem of Global Interfaith Chaplaincy
Religion in the Age of Globalization
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
Ontological Actuality and Sacred Actualization
Folk religion as the “life-world”
Making sense of religion
Chinese Buddhism and Vertical Space Metaphoric Thinking
Distinguishing “Religion”. Variants of Differentiation and the Emergence of “Religion” as a Global Category in Modern Asia
Chinese popular religion and Hong Kong identity
The Emperor and the People in One Body
Lemongrass, lotteries and the digital
Underneath the peace
The Multiple Dialectics of a Text and Author-A Study on Seng Zhao's Non-Complete Emptiness (Bu zhenkong lun)
Struggling in Crisis
Mediatization of Religion and Its Impact on Youth Identity Formation in Contemporary China
The Interplay of Rites and Customs
Religious Belonging in the East Asian Context
The sacred in urban political protests in Hong Kong
Morality, Gift and Market
Typologies of Secularism in China
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |